My friends Christiane and Jochen Lührs are the proud owners of a superb classic ketch German building, Socorro, with which they regularly cross the west European coasts. Fully built of solid woodin 1951, they maintain her with meticulous care, after many navigations from Norway to Scotland, and from Europe to the Antilles.
In stopover a few days ago in Vannes, I had the great pleasure to visit them. I knew Jochen when he was the German translator of iNavX, now a fan of Weather4D. I was finally able to visit their magnificent boat, which attracted more than one glance along the quay, with its perfect varnishes, its gleaming stainless steel, its masts Spruce, and impressive wheelhouse. I also discovered an amazing invention there…
In the navigation cabin, with a superb iPad support, of impeccable quality of carpentry :
But the most clever of this case was well hidden. For through the immense cabin glazing, The sun can sometimes heat up considerably, and the iPad quickly reach temperature protection.
So Jochen was very proud to show me his refrigeration trick, builted into the support, judge by yourself :
The built-in cooling unit to the support ! Admire the quality of the carpentry.
It is a long time since I have seen such a remarkable achievement, from a simple idea ! He deserves to be in the Guinness World Records.
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Interesting tip, but not very convincing. I use my iPad for navigation with ap boating. My iPad is on my cockpit at the flying bridge in my Grand Banks 42. It is in the shade of my bimini and in permanent charge on a 12v usb socket. I did nearly 800NM this summer with overheating, when I forgot my iPad in the sun at the port.
Superb indeed! You have to ask the manufacturer of the aiShells ( also German) provide space for ice packs…
By the way, I was using Weather4D on an iPad Air (2013) without GPS and I got the GPS back (that of an AIS Watcheye) with all other browsing data via NEMA83/wifi. This iPad having given up the ghost, I now have an iPad with GPS. It is clear that it heats considerably more (and of course, discharges much faster) than my old system because of the permanent access to the GPS antenna, so I'm going to restore my old configuration and resume the GPS sent over wifi.
Other info/experience:
Last summer I lost my GPS (Watcheye); so I used GPS2IP on an iPhone6s which sent it to my iPad on which was running WEATHER4D. It worked very well for several days, Time to finish my cruise. In this case it was of course the iPhone that tended to heat up and that I had to keep active and charging…