Applications – Page 6 – Navigation Mac & Co

Weather4D Routage & Navigation supports Imray charts

Posted on24 th 202019 May 20228 comments

With the delivery yesterday of the version 2.0.54, Weather4D add Imray (¹) to the Routing & Navigation, recently available in Geogarage. Five layers cover the Atlantic facade (²) , from the North Sea and Shetlands to the Canary Islands and the Azores, and one layer covers the Greater and Lesser Antilles.

But the most important are the three layers covering the western, central and eastern Mediterranean, which now provide detailed coverage from the Ionian Sea to the Aegean Sea. An excellent complement to the international SHOM layer. Read more …

Receive facsimile weather maps with an iPad [Update]

Posted on23 th 202023 th 20249 comments

An SSB receiver for leasure boating

HF Weather Fax to Black Cat Systems is an application allowing you to decode facsimile weather maps on an iPad, an iPhone or Android device. The analysis and forecast maps are provided by radio stations around the World. Broadcast on shortwave, they can easily be received by BLU receivers as found in boating catalogs.
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Receive graphic weather maps on iPad [Update-2]

Posted on16 th 202018 October 20256 comments

Weather analysis and forecasting maps developed by the NOAA (USA) and the Met Office (UK) cover vast areas over the Wold. They can be obtained sending a request by email to the weather server of british company MailaSail. With the latter, many maps are available in a listing (¹) in which it suffices to click on the links to load the request in a message ready to send.

[Update September 13 th 2025]

Iridium GO! app change de look [brief]

Posted on27 February 20202 th 2020One comment

The app Iridium GO!®, used on our smartphones (iOS/Android) to connect to the Iridium network via the device of the same name, just undergone an happy facelift. Nothing really fundamental, if not the user interface, but a stylish graphics help for first-time users. Read more …

Navigation Mac tutorials on your iPad [Update]

Posted on17 February 202018 February 20208 comments

A growing number of boaters now uses an iPad at sea. But offshore, when no network connection is available, and therefore no more internet access, how to access the various help or technical instructions concerning the tools used ?

The answer lies in building a library of files in PDF format that can be easily stored in the application Apple Books, for free, very fortunately. Read more …

APP4NAV discontinues the Android version of Weather4D

Posted on16 th 201911 th 2024

Weather4D had been ported to Android from fall 2013. One year later, in December 2014, Weather4D integrated charting navigation, NMEA data support via TCP-IP protocol, Autopilot control. Routing was only missing, already developed on iOS for Apple devices.

Alas, the following years, the time-consuming increase in iOS development had not allowed the developer to keep up with the Android version at the same level of features. Finally, two years ago, Google has announced that apps using native code should include a version 64 Bits (in addition to the 32 Bits). Read more …

MacENC and GPSNavX disappear forever [Update]

Posted on19 th 20193 November 20208 comments

Since 30 th 2018 (*), I already had information regarding discontinuation by NAVX Studio LLC of the development of two historical applications created by Richard Ray : GPSNavX and MacENC. The buyers of these applications and iNavX had clearly announced focuse only to the development of iNavX, on iOS and Android. It is likely that applications on Mac were no longer profitable, especially with the loss of Navionics maps for MacENC. Read more …

Navionics Boating mutating

Posted on7 February 20196 th 20247 comments

Since Garmin has acquired Navionics (¹), it will not take more than a year for Navionics also make its small (r)evolution in its flagship iOS and Android application . New logo, renouncing the multiplicity of applications, abandonment of duality iPad/iPhone, pricing standardization, Bring, among other changes, A little more consistency in the offer. Read more …

Man Over Board

Posted on20 December 201828 th 20256 comments

Credit: SNSM Bandol

Sailors have always been haunted by falling into the sea. Even with a trained crew, the operation of recovering a crew water fallen is risky, Already with the engine, even more with the sail. During my training years in Glénans Sailing School, Each boarding was an opportunity to systematically practice this maneuver, under sail, striving to come "die" heave to windward of the unfortunate, fortunately materialized by a buoy moored in a bucket as drift anchor. But that was not the real problem. It was above all not to lose sight of the crew, because come back to its fall position "reckoning" was virtually mission impossible. And still today, with our sophisticated electronic means, It's not as easy as you might think… Read more …

Weather4D – User Guides updated

Posted on1 December 20189 June 20218 comments

Christmas comes soon, and Apple Books Store will close its doors for the holidays. Publishers are required to send their books according to a set schedule. So I updated the user guides in advance in French and in English for all three versions Lite, Routing and Routing & Navigation.

You will be able to discover in preview the latest news to be published around the Paris Nautic boat show. Read more …