Use while cruising...

[RsH]

Name Latitude Longitude Date Place
Boston MA 42°20'38" -71°01'57.30" 10/09/2010 17:00 Black Falcon Cruise Terminal
Bar Harbor 44°23'32" -68°12'14.45" 10/10/2010 08:00-17:00 Landing area - floating docks at Harbor Place
Saint John 45°16'20" -66°04'09" 10/11/2010 08:00-17:00 Long Wharf Terminal
Halifax NS 44°38'27" -63°33'57.30" 10/12/2010 09:00-17:00 Pier 20
Sydney NS 46°08'30" -60°12'02" 10/13/2010 09:00-18:00 Sydney Marine Terminal
Corner Brook 48°57'34" -57°56'32.67" 10/14/2010 10:00-20:00 Main Cruise Berth
Quebec City 46°49'03.50" -71°11'57" 10/16/2010 08:00-20:00 Sector 21 at Pointe-A-Carcy
Sept Iles 50°11'51.20" -66°22'58.11" 10/18/2010 07:00-15:00 New Cruise Berth
Charlottetown 46°13'56.90" -63°07'01.35" 10/19/2010 12:00-18:00 Charlottetown Cruise Ship Terminal
Halifax NS 44°37'57" -63°33'52.50" 10/21/2010 08:00-16:00 Pier 1-A, Berth 34
Portland 43°39'25.33" -70°14'49.44" 10/22/2010 10:00-18:00 Ocean Terminal, Pier 1
Boston MA 42°20'38" -71°01'57.30" 10/23/2010 08:00-16:00 Black Falcon Cruise Terminal
Samana DR 19°12'06.75" -69°19'36.63" 10/26/2010 12:00-18:00 Landing area - Private Pier
Raod Town Tortola 18°25'19.92" -64°36'46.67" 10/27/2010 09:00-18:00 Road Town Cruise Pier
Basseterre St. Kitts 17°17'24.72" -62°43'21.60" 10/28/2010 08:00-16:00 Basseterre, Port Zante Cruise Pier
Bridgetown Barbados 13°06'08.02" -59°37'43.31" 10/29/2010 10:00-18:00 Bridgetown Deep Water Harbor
Willemstad Curacao 12°06'16" -68°56'30.10" 10/31/2010 08:00-18:00 Willemstad, Curacao Mega Cruise Terminal
Oranjestad Aruba 12°31'09.03" -70°02'33.11" 11/01/2010 08:00-17:00 Aruba Cruise Ship Terminal
Roatan Honduras 16°18'44.69" -86°32'42.49 11/04/2010 08:00-16:00 Cruise Ship Pier - Coxen Hole
Cozumel 20°30'35.30" -86°57'24.80" 11/05/2010 08:00-17:00 Punta Langosta Cruise Pier
New Orleans LA 29°56'27" -90°03'40.10" 11/07/2010 08:00 Erato Street Cruise Terminal

The above is a cruise we will be taking. Except while on land the entire route will be captured by my various GPS units and kept in a file that covers all 29 days, including shore excursions, so that I can geocode any photographs we take precisely. However, generally GPS and GPX software seems to have difficulties when one is planning a trip from, for example, Boston Mass to Bar Harbor Maine as most software seems to assume one is going by land. Thus the trip from Boston to Samana cannot be mapped will in any existing products. A straight line does NOT work, since land must be avoided by the ship! Is there any way that RouteConverter can be used both before and after the cruise to keep the record straight as to sailing the ocean blue and taking shore and boat excursions while at ports?

[routeconverter]

Is there any way that RouteConverter can be used both before and after the cruise to keep the record straight as to sailing the ocean blue and taking shore and boat excursions while at ports?

If straight lines or simply waypoints do not work for you: no. And I'm not aware of navigation products that cover both sea- and land-based navigation.

[hvdwolf]

Thus the trip from Boston to Samana cannot be mapped will in any existing products. A straight line does NOT work, since land must be avoided by the ship! Is there any way that RouteConverter can be used both before and after the cruise to keep the record straight as to sailing the ocean blue and taking shore and boat excursions while at ports?

Did you have a look at OziExplorer? I have used it in the past for canoeing, which is basically the same if you follow a meandering river with side streams and want to pass lakes with many small islands: you also plan a route outside the normal route plans. I have been using it with self-made maps (quite easy) and with topographics maps.
I still use it for walking/hiking where I want to plot a route outside the paved roads. (my web tool exports to OziExplorer format, both maps and calibration)