• Enter waypoints and calculate required courses and distances

• Enter dates and time for Start of Seavoyage and Scheduled time of arrival

• Calculate required speed as well as required engine rpm setting

• Calculate estimated fuel consumption during the voyage

• View average weather conditions on each stretch of the intended voyage (scheduled engine rpm setting will include these weather conditions)

• Connect your PC to a GPS using a NMEA0183 serial connection and automatically update and log positionfixes to disk.

• Continously update required speed and engine setting during the voyage in order to arrive on time with minimal fuel consumption.

• Departure, Position, and Arrival reports can be created fully automatically for a large number of reporting systems (f.i. AMVER, SISTRAM, AUSREP, etc) and exported either to email or to textfile or printer.

• Enter a list of required charts and publications

• Enter a list of required reporting points during the voyage

• Enter presently active navigational warnings and calculate ETA and closest distance from scheduled route

• Enter and update presently active tropical storms and calculate ETA and closest aproach during scheduled voyage

• View and update all relevant data on departure and arrival port (including pilot traject, details pilotstation, etc)

• Continously update the 'master schedule' and calculate estimated fuel consumption and required speed on roundtrip.

• Calculate squat during the voyage

• Calculate required distance and time to reduce engine rpm

• Calculate wheel over point distances for each turn during the voyage

• All lists can be exported to email or text or database file for further editing.

For each waypoint you can either manually enter the expected weather conditions, or use the average conditions for this stretch and this season, calculated by NavTools Route.

Similarly, you can either use average current for this area and this season, or you can manually enter current direction and flow.

For each stretch of the voyage, you can manually set the required speed, or allow NavTools Route to calculate average values for this area and season.

Voyage properties will allow you to either use average calculated weather conditions, or import data from forecast areas along the route.

A unique feature of NavTools Route is its build in vessel algoritm, which is able to calculate the most economical engine rpm setting for the whole voyage, taking into account expected weather conditions on each stretch of the voyage. Using this option NavTools Route will allow you to 'gain' additional speed on favourable stretches of the voyage, and loosing speed in areas of bad weather while still arriving on time and with minimal fuel consumption.

As NavTools Route allows you to enter all departure and arrival times in local time, time differences during the voyage will be automatically accounted for.

During the voyage, you can either use a connected NMEA0183 (GPS) device to constantly update the vessels position, or manually enter positionfixes at a certain time interval.

Weather during the voyage can be entered, and will be used to update the database of average weather conditions for the particular area and season. When your vessel has been sailing on a specific route for several months, the database of average weather conditions will grow and every new voyage will benefit from the collected data.

All positionfixes (whether manual or automatic) will be written to log, allowing you to consult the vessels history and past performance at any moment during the voyage.

Every list shown in NavTools Route can be exported to file, database, or email message for further processing.

Standard reporting system messages (eg. AMVER, AUSREP, SISTRAM, etc) can be automatically created using NavTools Route, and written to file, printer, or send by email.

NavTools Route integrates seemlessly with any MAPI compliant email system, and is able to create and send messages directly.

If required, messages can be written to text files or printed.

Vessels performance ('Noon Report') can constantly be checked.

A graph of vessels performance between any two positions can be printed for later analysis

When planning the voyage, reporting points can be created where a certain action is required, NavTools Route will show this as a 'checklist' reminding the navigator when to perform which action.

If required, a reporting point can also include attached documents for further explanation.

Certain documents and checklists can be edited, viewed, and printed from within NavTools Route as part of the voyage planning:

NavTools Route allows you to attach lists of required charts and documents to your voyage planning, your final voyage planning file will include waypoints, required charts and publications, and reporting points. Other lists are stored separately and will be available for any voyage.

Navigational warnings can be entered or imported from file, whereafter NavTools Route will automatically calculate closest aproach and time of closest aproach for each warning position.

These lists of warnings (as well as history, ports, weather forecasts, and tropical storms) are stored independent of the voyage, and are available for any new or opened voyagefile.

NavTools Route allows you to print a 'plottingsheet' for any part of the voyage, which can be printed on transparant paper and used as an overlay on a paper chart. This plottingsheet will show waypoints and courselines, as well as past positionfixes, navigational warnings, and tropical storms.

Tropical storms can be a danger to shipping, and NavTools Route allows you to continously update their positions and calculate estimated closest approach to your intended voyage.

Using present position and estimated track of each storm, NavTools Route is able to calculate closest approach and time of closest approach of each storm to your intended route.

A 'Hurricane advisory' form can be printed, which allows the navigator to view the vessels track relative to the center of the tropical storm.

This storm advisory form will allow the navigator to timely change course, speed, or route in order to avoid a close approach to the storm center. Any change in waypoints or speed will automatically result in a re-calculation of CPA and TCPA, and the new form will show the results of any changes you made to the voyage planning.

NavTools Route allows you to enter an unlimited number of ports, and store data on positions, addresses, required documents, inbound and outbound traject, requirements at this port, etc.

The inbound and outbound traject for each port can be stored, and will be available for any new voyage to or from this port.

An unlimited number of required documents can be attached to each port and directly edited and printed from within NavTools Route.

The 'Master Schedule' is constantly available, allowing the user an overview of the intended vessel schedule and estimated total fuel consumption and required speed.

The NavTools 'Calculator' as an important tool for many items of the voyage planning, for instance calculating vessels airdraft

Calculating vessels squat at various engine rpm settings

Calculate vessels speed, fuel consumption, and stopping distance at various engine rpm settings

Calculate vessels wheel over point prior to any course change

Calculating bearings and distances between any two points

And calculate vessels ETA at the final destination at a certain engine rpm setting.

ALL OF THIS, AND A LOT MORE, AT A PRICE WAY BELOW ANY OTHER SIMILAR SOFTWARE APPLICATION, MAKES NAVTOOLS ROUTE INTO THE ULTIMATE VOYAGE PLANNING TOOL.