As you might expect, Garmin cleaned up the offer and pricing of Navionics Boating charts at the beginning of the year 2024.
No more large areas (like the Mediterranean) up to 35 € ! Several zones are redefined and subscription prices are aligned uniformly with 50 € for most, with two exceptions.
Cutting
Among the areas removed, we find the Mediterranean (from Gibraltar to the Black Sea) and the vast Europe region, which embraced all of Western Europe. Exit also South America, which included the Caribbean.
• Western Europe is still divided into two regions : British Isles (with Netherlands) and Central & West Europe (with Azores, Madeira, Canaria). The French and English coasts of the English Channel are included in these two zones. So 100 € for these two areas, which is still very reasonable.
• Northern Europe is covered by three zones : Norway (with Spitsbergen), entrance to the Baltic with South Scandinavia and North Germany, and Baltic Sea. So 200 € total.
• The Mediterranean is always included in the Central region & West Europe up to Corsica and Sardinia included. But the Global Mediterranean, which extends to the Canary Islands, no longer understands the coasts of Croatia and Montenegro ! It will cost you 50 € more to get there, which increases the cost to 100 € (instead of current 35 € en 2023). It's frankly petty.
The division of Western Europe into 2024
• The Americas is now divided into three regions : North America, Central America (with the Caribbean, up to and including Brazil) and South America (from Uruguay to Chile included). So 150 € for all three zones.
Prices 2024
Widespread rise and uniformity : Subscriptions are at 50 €, except the entrance to the Baltic at 100 € and Greenland-Iceland at 150 €.
At Garmin, Financial results are no joke !
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Thank you for your warnings. It's a bit like a jungle.!!
I apparently have the 20.1.2 by Navionics boating on my iPad.
On the other hand, contrary to the screenshots above, I do not have access to the "Central and Western Europe" module. It is not in the list of purchasable modules when I am on my iPad ( same on my iPhone) . I have all the other modules available for purchase but just not the one I'm interested in… What for ? Do you have an idea ?
For the moment I am still working with the old division with the "Europe" map which will only work until May 1st 2024 on my iPad .
Will the possibility of purchasing this module only appear when my old module no longer works? ?
It should appear when the older module expires. It is very likely.
Thank you for this summary. I would add that Garmin has also issued a new constraint on the Boating version, which must be higher than or equal to v20 to be able to subscribe to a new region. For me, It's very penalizing, and bordering on adulterated sale because I bought a region with my Android phone and everything went well, then I also wanted to install the cards on my old iPad which has an iOS v13 version and which does not allow Boating v20 to be installed. So I'm very fed up !