Celestial, navigation on iPhone and iPad [Update-2]

[January update 2025] This great app, not updated for several years, No longer working. It's a shame because I had made the French version. A similar alternative could be Celestial Navigation whose latest version 1.4 Mid-2020 date. I haven't had the opportunity to test it yet.

The company Navimatics, located near Seattle, state of Washington, has been offering since October 2010 a complete application for celestial navigation. for iPhone, iPad , and also mobile under Android . It has just been updated to version 1.5 with a new iOS-compliant interface 8/9. Read more …

Update Weather4D R&N 2.0.93

  • Fixed an issue that occurred with the update macOS Sequoia 15.2 preventing the app from opening on Mac.
  • Corrective update regarding a malfunction in the selection of time steps of some forecast models.

In addition, The model IFS increase up to 15 days and is augmented by the " Gusts ” data.

Addition of the Argentina charting available at Geogarage.

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eSail4VR 1.35 : heading up to Vendée Globe 2024

Two years after its launch for the Route du Rhum 2022, the cross-platform routing application dedicated to gaming Virtual Regatta Offshore has been the subject of an essential update in the run-up to the Vendée Globe. It has been available since September 29 th (¹), in order to support the latest Virtual Regatta 7.0. Read more …

InavX adopts Imray charts

With the latest version 5.6.35 from February the 25 th last September, iNavX integrates Imray charting offered by its supplier SiiTech (¹). NavX Studios does not hesitate to announce in its communication :

As the leading publisher of nautical information for leisure sailors, Imray joins iNavX, making us the first mobile navigation platform to offer and support these trusted charts..” data.

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Garmin Boating V.22.0

It is now effective, with the latest update powered on September 27 th, Navionics Boating app becomes Garmin Boating. The Navionics® brand is now only about charting, but for how long ? However, it would seem risky to delete such a well-known trademark ! And as users have been able to see : A new logo has been imposed to clearly identify the owner of the application. Read more …

Update Weather4D R&N 2.0.92 -New charts update

As part of the gradual conversion of raster charts to vector charts ENC (¹) on the platform Geogarage, Weather4D Routing & Navigation now includes the following ENC catalogs :

  • Portugal (derived from the productions of the Portuguese Hydrographic Service – IH)
  • Poland (derived from the productions of the Polish Hydrographic Service – HOPN)
  • Australia (derived from the productions of the Australian Hydrographic Service – AHO)

These ENC catalogs are added to the previous ones already available (Spain, Croatia, Germany, Netherland). Others are under negotiation such as Greece and Sweden.

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(¹) Geogarage to introduce ENC charts for Weather4D
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Weather4D renews its GRIB model offering

Latest releases Lite, Routing, Routing & Navigation arrive with a full renewed list of weather and ocean models in order to allow users to benefit from the evolution of the offer of international forecasting models. At the same time, all GRIB files go to format GRIB-2, this allows for a reduction in their size and a better compression ratio. Read more …

Navionics Boating : Garmin updates charts and pricing… on the rise !

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. Read more …