Marine Navigation Software

The best navigation and sailing software available.

Marine Navigation Software For Mac

Expedition has been used in multiple Volvo Ocean Race, America's Cup and Grand Prix events and is the most advanced and usable software available.

Official supplier to The Volvo Ocean Race, Americas Cup, Sail GP and many other events.

Navigation software consists of computer programs for reading electronic charts and handling the full range of navigational operations, as well as complementary functions. Applications Such programs can be used aboard any vessel, recreational, professional or commercial, equipped with a desk or laptop computer, a tablet or a smartphone.
With the best marine navigation apps you can quite literally turn your phone or your tablet into a full-blown chartplotter. That means you have a valuable back-up to the electronics at your helm, and you can carry your tech with you even when aboard small boats with no electrical systems.
Escape the ordinary. Navionics electronic navigation charts of marine areas, lakes, and rivers provide boaters around the world with detailed cartography, HD bathymetry, and advanced features for use with their GPS chartplotters and mobile devices.

Expedition has been in development since the mid 1990s by veteran Volvo Ocean Race navigator and Whitbread winner Nick White.

The best navigation and sailing software available. Expedition has been used in multiple Volvo Ocean Race, America's Cup and Grand Prix events and is the most advanced and usable software available. Official supplier to The Volvo Ocean Race, Americas Cup, Sail GP and many other events. Expedition has been in development since the mid 1990s.

v11.10.20 available now for Windows 10 or 8

S-57 ENCs
S-63 ENCs
BSB RNCs (versions 1-5)
C-MAP 4D
C-MAP MAX/NT+
NV-Verlag
Softcharts
Maptech PCX
Visit My Harbour

Sophisticated display options
Grib 1 and 2
NetCDF
Intelligent merging and display of multiple grib file datasets
Integrated WRF models
Integrated GFS, UM, ICON, GDPS & NBM grib server
Saildocs, Great Circle-Squid, Tidetech and other weather sources
SailFlow weather observations
Rainviewer weather radar
Weather observations
NOAA, Proudman, SHOM and Tidetech tides & currents
Satellite images
Weather charts

Multiple routing algorithms
Display multiple optimum routes
Optimal fleet routing
Ensemble multiple weather model routing
Optimal route sensitivity
Wave corrections and avoidance
Routing sensitivity
Reverse isochrones for graphical interpretation of routing
Asymmetric polars

Windward-leeward course support
Time to marks, laylines, next leg etc
Layline bounds
What if? functionality
America's cup race management
Sail charts
Handicap support
Start line functions
Time to ends & line
Time to burn
Line bias
Hold wind and current
Display grid
and much more

AIS, DSC and AIS-SART receivers
AT+T
B&G Hercules, Hydra & GoFree H390 to H5000
Bravo Systems
Cosworth
DMK Yacht
Garmin USB
Koden radar
KVH Quadro
Laser rangefinders
Navico Broadband radar
Nexus NX2 FDX
NKE
NMEA 0183
NMEA 2000
Ockam
Iridium GO!
Optimizer and XGate
Sailmon
Stowe
Tacktick
Ventus
Vesper AIS
VSPARS
Yacht Devices
Various compasses, MOB and other sensors
Networking support

Stripchart to plot and analyse data
Sail chart
YB Tracking
AIS target tracking
Race tracking functions to track and analyse competitors
Display marks, courses, laylines, track, AIS targets, radar, tracks, race schedule information etc. on the chart
Polar functions to output, analyse and create or modify a yacht’s performance polars
Logging functions to record race data that can be replayed or analysed later to assist with instrument calibration or polar modifications
GPX import and export
Number boxes to display any system number
GPS window
Alarms
Full screen mode
and much more!

System requirements

Windows 10 or 8. Windows 10 is recommended. Expedition 4D requires OpenGL support.