Navionics Subscription Price Rise

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Woohoo said..
From 25 October, Navionics yearly subscription will go from $38.99 to more than double that (can't remember exactly! the new price).

You can go into your account and buy multiple subscriptions which just roll over each year. I've bought five! Maybe I'll be dead by then haha

Thanks for that sounds like a very good idea. Just jumped on the boating app on my tablet and can't seem to see how to purchase future subscriptions What is it under?

Also the card for my plotter does appear when I log on to my account via a laptop in navionics.com but I can't see how to renew it past it's current expiry in 165 days and furthermore my subscription to the app doesn't appear at all.

Ok Update-to answer my own question I went into Playstore and updated the Boating App even though the Boating App had been updated recently with regards to its maps. After doing so my account on the Navionics.com website showed both my chart ploter card and the Boating App with an option to renew the boating app for US24.99 even though it is not due until April next year.
I have now done this and paid with PayPal and a cost of AU AU41.41 although it would not allow me to put anything but a Canadian or US billing address. I therefore put my street address and postcode in Australia and my area as US/ Armed Forces Pacific. At least it worked because the app is now saying renewal is required in 530 days.

What a frigging run around.

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Trek said..
OpenCPN avoids that problem. Here www.openCPN.org.

$60 for East Coast of Australia Charts and no subscriptions. And you can get the GPS streaming data from your Trek.

Thanks for that but I'm lazy and use the automatic feature on Navionics to plot a point to point course avoiding all hazards and then analyse each segment before sailing just to make sure.
If I were to use open CPN presumably I would have to analyze the whole course first and then set my own waypoints as there would be no automatic feature. Is that correct?

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Trek said..
Possibly yes.

The way I use it is click the way points sequentially along the route I want to go with mouse. ie first then next then the next. OpenCPN as I use then calculates total distance, estimated ETA, saves it as a route etc.

Because its "open source" features are added to it all the time. But I didn't see an automatic way point plotter - ie place destination and it places all the way points by itself.

Thanks. Bought three years of Navionics by adding yet another today whilst walking a friend through same processes. Price must go up 25th US time/date.