eSail4VR 1.35 : heading up to Vendée Globe 2024
Two years after its launch for the Route du Rhum 2022, the multi-platform routing application dedicated to the Virtual Regatta Offshore game has been the subject of an essential update in the run-up to the Vendée Globe. It has been available since September 29 Read more …
Weather4D and the unable-to-route syndrome
Yachtmen my friends, Many of you still encounter difficulties with the subtleties of the routing function in Weather4D, despite the pages dedicated to routing errors in both user manuals (¹), which are accessible from the application by a Read more …
eSail4VR 1.11 available on platforms [Update]
In gestation and intensive testing for several months, the new version 1.11 is available on all platforms (¹). A large number of new items on the menu, dont le « Mode Expert », a new routing engine, the support of Read more …
eSail4VR for Virtual Regatta is available on all four stores
The eSail4VR multi-support application dedicated to routing for Virtual Regatta, about I wrote a few days ago (¹), is available for download from the Mac App Store online stores (macOS), App Store (iOS/iPadOS), Google Play (Android), Windows Store. Just in time for Read more …
Routing : from reality to play (episode 3)
While, this morning of the 9th day, Hugo Boss leads the Vendée globe 2020 finishes crossing the “Doldrums” at a slow trot (¹), followed by the fleet of competitors which spreads out behind him to the north of the Read more …
Routing : from game to reality (continue)
Friday 13 November will not be a lucky day for the Vendée Globe skippers 2020 (¹). They will have to negotiate the encounter with the tropical storm “Theta” which crosses their path with average winds that can Read more …
Routing : from game to reality
On the second day of racing of this Vendée Globe 2020, we can say that the weather conditions that the skippers will experience on the descent towards the Doldrums will be particularly tough. After a departure for a while Read more …
Navigation Mac embarks on the Vendée Globe 2020
Hey yes, everything happens ! In all my computer-nautical career I had never played any computer game whatsoever, not even the historic card game on Windows that cost thousands of idle office hours Read more …
Weather4D embarks on the Vendée Globe 2020 [Break News]
No, it's not a joke ! Weather4D embarks with SailGrib on the Vendée Globe 2020 with Virtual Regatta. The two friends Henri and Olivier have together developed a routing module directly integrated into the game. Philippe Guigné, the Read more …
VMG / VMC – for dummies
Navigation apps are full of acronyms. This coded and abstruse language was originally developed for electronic navigation instruments, GPS mapping and other chartplotters. These acronyms, in the form of three letters most often, are the contraction Read more …
Weather4D 2.0 revisits navigation on iPad [Update]
Weather4D 2.0 is available on Apple AppStore (*). After the success of the first two versions, APP4NAV company just revisit chart navigation on iPad and iPhone by integrating the timing dimension. With simulations and weather routing, Read more …
iPolar 2.0 and new Weather4D have arrived
iPolar 2.0 arrives with several improvements, including one expected from the beginning : the possibility of exporting fleeces by email. Done, and moreover the export of fleeces (single or multi-sail) is systematically done in 3 file formats : CSV, Read more …
Routing and usage precautions
With the advent of powerful weather-routing applications on our tablets and smartphones, like Weather4D and SailGrib WR, at truly affordable prices, routing is becoming more popular for pleasure boating. The quality of these applications is already attracting sailors Read more …
ENCs, Routing and sailing shaves stone
The relationship of a recent experience of an iNavX user and Weather4D PRO routing function invites me to bring a warning to the attention of novices boaters in computer use. A regatta course, starting Read more …
Weather4D PRO 1.3.3 further improves routing
Improvements… No respite for this application : two and a half months after integrating the currents into the routing calculation, this latest version provides significant advances on this function. Improvements bring greater precision Read more …
Weather4D PRO 1.3.2 adds the currents in the routing
With the version 1.3.2, Weather4D PRO allows to get and display currents as GRIB data. To begin with, the available currents are provided on subscription by the company Tidetech, which I talked about a few years ago Read more …
iPolar generates speed polars for Weather4D PRO
You dreamed of it since Weather4D Pro has featured its powerful routing module. He did it ! Our Toulousian crazy developer, Olivier Bouyssou, just sent Apple a new app : iPolar. Developed in collaboration with — and for Read more …
Routing comes up in Weather4D PRO 1.3
After several months of intensive development and testing, under the conditions mentioned in a previous post, Olivier Bouyssou will offer his latest version of Weather4D PRO at the Grand Pavois 1.3.0. At no additional cost, the routing module will be Read more …