The latest issue of Ocean Navigator, May/June 2012, includes an article about using OpenCPN together with GE2KAP for real world cruising. The piece "Updating Captain Cook", is based on the yacht Carina's experiences in The Pacific.

OpenCPN has a strongly growing userbase. The latest version 2.5.0 has been downloaded more than 115.000 times from SourceForge. The tide has changed, even comercial vendors are now taking note of OpenCPN. As an example, check this thread over at a ybw forum.

 
Developments in and around OCPN since the 2.5 release. A short summary of what's going on in the discussion forum.

Whats new in the OpenCPN 2.5 release? A preview.

Numerous changes and enhancements behind the scene of course, but also many cool news for the user.
A new Plugin implementation has paved the way for many new Plugins.
One of the original Plugins "The Dashboard" have many more instruments available.
Multiple instances is possible, that can be vertical (as before) or  horizontal, both dock-able.

A world wide raster-chart coverage for Windows computers is possible through the
"BSB4" and

From the 29:th of June the Mac beta is found among the other betas.
To compile yourself download from the SourceForge Git repository.
This is a big step forward for OpenCPN. Help test the new Mac-beta!
Download here: opencpn.org/downloads/beta/OpenCPN_2.4.628.dmg