Active Captain website

[Lew Barrett]

Here's an interesting site I learned about from the CYA forum. You have to register to really see what it offers, but having done so, I found that the comments and opinions on places I was familiar with were accurate. Useful for cruise planning, I'd think, and will become more so as it fills in.

http://www.activecaptain.com/index.php

[Michael Beckman]

I'm finding the site very slow, and lacking much useful information for the port townsend area. I'm considering writing a few things out actually, it seems like a great idea provided people write good local knowledge for less common areas.

[rbgarr]

That's loaded with a lot of information for this region. Some is out-of-date for my area but it's useful nonetheless. Thanks!

[paladin]

Needed a little tweaking from my end. The water outside a poorly marked "channel" is less than 6 feet......I know, I tested it....:D It's dredged only every other year and only after a few complaints....I have taped in plastic sheets in my chart kit paks with lotsa notes.

[Lew Barrett]

I'm finding the site very slow, and lacking much useful information for the port townsend area. I'm considering writing a few things out actually, it seems like a great idea provided people write good local knowledge for less common areas.

I guess the point is to add your comments to the ones that have gone before so that this becomes an expanding database. I didn't have trouble with speed of the site. I guess the caveat with all of this is: how much do you trust the other guy?

I wouldn't use it as a sole cruising guide, or as a substitute for proper navigating practice, but I think it has potential.

[JeffInCastine]

I guess the caveat with all of this is: how much do you trust the other guy?
The same could be said of the commercial guidebooks though, right? I mean, how much should you trust someone that wrote something 1-10 YEARS ago?

ActiveCaptain is doing extremely well because thousands of people are updating it continuously. With full disclosure, I'm the developer of it.

We're approaching 200,000 updates done by our user community. There's still a lot more to add and keep updated though. It's completely free and will stay that way. The data entered is available to everyone. We certainly could use help with more people adding data and updating the information from your local area.

I hope you'll consider adding your own local knowledge to it.

[Lew Barrett]

Good for you Jeff. Thanks for all the work you put in. I think it's a very cool tool, and I do plan to use it and put my 2 cents in. Interesting (and fun) to have you comment on the forum, and welcome here. Don't be a stranger!

[Yeadon]

I need to take a look at this thing. But first, dinner.