Downloads Back
to Valhalla's Mooring Page
Downloads Back
to Valhalla's Mooring Page
PLEASE NOTE: To download, right click on the link and select "Save .. as" from your browser. Some are large files (3 MB +) and may take a long time to download depending on your Internet connection speed, so please be patient. IF YOU ARE USING THE FIREFOX BROWSER YOU CAN CLICK ON THE RED LINK AND THE FILE WILL BE DOWNLOADED TO YOUR DESKTOP!
PROGRAMS
Below are some programs either no longer available or difficult to find on the Internet for download. I find them very useful and provide them here for your use.
time58.zip Puts a clock in the upper right hand corner of active windows. Can be set to 12/24 hrs, GMT, or computer time. Has alarms and shut-down features. (.zip; 141KB)
WXTide32 This program has been updated and is now available from the Links page. Valhalla's guide (.zip 1.659Kb, unzips to .doc 1.946Kb) to program installation and initialization is available here.
ARTICLES
Here are some articles from our files.
Repair your own sails Jim Grant, of Sailrite, published this article about 20 years ago in Sail magazine. It is great for tuning up your sewing machine to work properly. (.zip; 161KB, unzips to .pdf; 175KB)
The Long Oars of Pete Culler Rick Cahoon published this article in Wooden Boat and a copy was given to me when I wanted to build the 'Pete Culler' oars for the nesting dinghy "Gecko". (.zip; 278KB, unzips to .pdf; 302KB)
Marine Grounding Systems An article from West Marine with information on this subject. (.zip 111KB, unzips to .pdf 125KB). Might be a bit controversial!
RF Interference An article by Jim Corenman from the Pactor Primer. (.zip 31KB, unzips to .pdf 50KB)
FUJI 32 KETCH MANUFACTURER'S INFORMATION
Scanned images from the manufacturer's information are available here.
MAXSEA GUIDES
VALHALLA's guides to the MaxSea navigation program have been written as an alternative to the cumbersome Help files in that program.
Guides for two versions are available.
MaxSea 10.1.3.2 ... go here.
MaxSea 10.3.2.1 Three guides are available: MaxSea 10.3.2.1 Installation Guide, MaxSea 10.3.2.1 Tutorial, and Using AIS with MaxSea.
The guides are in .zip format and require a suitable extraction program, such as WinZip available from http://www.winzip.com.
After downloading, unzip the file (using WinZip or any other suitable program) into a folder for use by the MaxSea program version you have. (Normally in the 'My Documents' folder)
If you find any changes to suggest or if you have trouble downloading these guides, please contact me at the 'land based email' address shown here.
MAXSEA ROUTES
A collection of routes for use with the MaxSea electronic charting program (Ver 10.1.3.2 and later))
The routes are in a .zip format and require a suitable extraction program (such as WinZip available from http://www.winzip.com ).
Check out the collection by clicking 'routedescriptions.txt' which lists the routes, a description, the beginning and ending waypoints, and the route distance. This description file is also included in the collection.
Download the collection of routes here.
After downloading, unzip the file (using WinZip or any other suitable program) into a folder for use by the MaxSea program. (Normally in the 'My Documents' folder)
If you find any changes to suggest to any route, please let me know. If you have any routes to contribute to the collection please send them to me at our 'land based email' address shown here.
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Hank's Routes Hank on the SV Maya II has been collecting routes in the Philippines for several years. He has kindly donated them for download with the usual disclaimer that This collection of routes can be downloaded here.
SOUTHEAST ASIA WEATHER FILES
The Meteorological Service Division, National Environment Agency, Singapore has a Shipping Home Page with a wealth of weather information. The Regional Weather Charts give a daily synopsis of the weather, in chart form, for southeast Asia. Over the past several years Terry has saved these images (missing some days, of course) and they are compiled below in .zip format for the months shown. The files range in size from 3 to 4 MB. You may find these useful for planning passages in Southeast Asia.
September 2005, October 2005, November 2005, December 2005, January 2006, February 2006, March 2006, April 2006, May 2006, June 2006, July 2006, August 2006, September 2006, October 2006, November 2006, December 2006, January 2007, February 2007, March 2007, April 2007, May 2007, June 2007, July 2007, August 2007, September 2007, October 2007, November 2007, December 2007, January 2008, February 2008, March 2008, April 2008, May 2008, June 2008, July 2008, August 2008, September 2008, October 2008, November 2008, December 2008, January 2009, February 2009, March 2009, April 2009, May 2009, Jun 2009, Jul 2009, Aug 2009
AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM (AIS) PRESENTATION
Terry gave a presentation on this subject at the Sebana Cove Marina on 25 November 07. The talk is in PowerPoint format and a zipped file can be downloaded here. Beware ... it's a rather large file, about 7.7MB. You will need to have Microsoft Power Point (part of the Microsoft Office suite) installed to view this presentation. Unzip all of the files into one folder then start the presentation by double-clicking on the file 'Automatic Identification System.pps'.
MaxSea and Vista
Until now I have been at a loss to find a way for the MaxSea navigation program to work properly with the Microsoft Vista operating system. The MaxSea program would run nicely displaying the nautical charts and the program would show that GPS data was being received by the program BUT the boat position either was not displayed or was displayed only at the starting position of 0 degrees latitude and 0 degrees longitude. I, and others, assumed the problem was the need for a Vista patch to the MaxSea program. WRONG!
Now, thanks to Jim Buchanan, an Australian sailing-computer guru, the problem has been found to be the need for a Vista upgrade to the drivers for the GPS link into the computer. Jim has been Santa Claus this year!
So far, we have found Vista drivers for the following:
Hollux GR-213 USB GPS. Download the driver from here. Or from the Hollux website.
Globalsat BU-303 and BU-353 USB GPS: Download the driver from here. Or from the Globalsat website.
Prolific USB to Serial (RS-232) Adapter: Download the driver from here. Or from the Cooldrives.com website.
Testing of all of these drivers is ongoing. The Hollux GPS works fine on a Sony Vaio machine. More results should be available here the first week of January 2009.
(UPDATE 8 JAN 2009)
Installation on two machines has now been successfully done.
1. A Dell Inspiron 1720 running Vista Home Premium edition. The Hollux GR-213 driver was installed and the position shown on the charts correctly.
2. A Sony Vaio running Vista Business edition.
a. Globalsat BU-353 USB GPS. The Globalsat driver mentioned above was installed but failed to show the position (i.e., not data was seen entering the program). Since this unit uses a Prolific adapter chip the Prolific adapter mentioned above was installed. VOILA! Position data was received and the vessel position was shown correctly on the chart.
b. Furuno GP-32 GPS with Prolific USB-RS232 adapter. Loaded immediately and showed position data being received and vessel position shown correctly on the chart.
IF ANYONE HAS SUCCESS OR FAILURE RUNNING THIS CONFIGURATION, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. Contact information
LAPTOP BATTERY INFORMATION PROGRAM
An excellent program for showing the battery information on a laptop can be downloaded here or from the website.
I made settings in the program to display 1) Capacity in percent, 2) Remaining time and 3) Current power consumption.