Next Tide Event Time

[P_Dub]

How do you get this to work using tides and also current, when you have?
In my other program it was easy to do, but I don't know how in OpnCpn.

Reards.

[JohnGC]

I am a relatively new user of OpenCPN. Until this year my primary plotting tool was Euronav's SeaPro. This is a commercial package and when I purchased it in 2011 it was one of the affordable (but not cheap) ways to obtain legitimate charts & tidal data for UK waters.

Now that UK charts are available for OpenCPN at modest cost, I have been running it along side SeaPro.

I prefer the OpenCPN's user interface and would ditch SeaPro except for tidal stream route planning feature. I'll attempt to attach/link an annotated screen capture showing how it works.

Of course, we don't yet have freely available data in the UK to use with it, but I live in hope that a modest cost licence could be negotiated with the UKHO (as was the case for charts).

It may give you some ideas, anyway I hope it's of interest!

John.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sr9hokbtfj...anner.png?dl=0

[rgleason]

Originally Posted by bdbcat

Skipper...

If you do two things, the column is populated.

1. Before opening route manager, open the graphic for a specific tide station. This will be the location for which "next tide event" is calculated.

2. Open the route manager. Fill in a value for "departure time", and hit return.

The next event column will then be populated.

Dave

Tried this several times with 4.8.4 and I think it is working, perhaps not completely. I had forgotten about this feature. Do I understand that this is not documented?