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Iridium Mail & Web app : GRIB weather files on iPhone and iPad in open sea [Update-2]

Posted on2 June 201711 th 202415 comments

[Update 15 February 2019] The recent update of the application Iridium Mail & Web app gives me the opportunity to refresh this post originally written in December 2011.

The Wi-Fi Gateway Optimizer from RedPort allows owners of a mobile satellite phone to make requests and receive GRIB weather files from an iPad or iPhone on the high seas, into the wild, anywhere on the world.

After implementing and testing this solution On a long journey, It proved to be perfectly operational. However, it is limited to the receipt of the forecasts of the GFS weather model worldwide, and the wave pattern WW3, obtained by the American server's autoresponder Saildocs.

Update iNavX 5.0.7 [Update-2]

Posted on16 May 20176 th 202424 comments

[Update] Following the update 5.0.6 the charts were again no more reachable. A release 5.0.7 delivered in the night of May 15 until 16 has solved the problem. But alas, the Fugawi/Chart website was made unavailable for a few hours, and therefore no more access to accounts to retrieve charts. Definitely, fate persists !

You can now resume the procedure :

Select the “Maps” page > “My cards” tab
Select each chart folder you have purchased
Type “Update Map List”
Activate and download the folder again

To make it work, may be you need to logout/login to your Fugawi account. You will notice however that the French translation has been completed, at least one positive thing !

[Update-2]

To restore your cards in the “My cards” page, you have to pull the page down by sliding it with your finger, your purchases need to be refreshed.

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The new division of the NV Charts

Posted on13 December 20166 th 2024

I had presented in May 2015 the excellent raster charts NV Charts by the German Publisher NV Verlag. In 2016, the previous cutting in 4 areas for France - Channel and Atlantic coasts - has been split into 8 areas for 49,90$ apiece. It should be noted that each year a new edition replaces the previous one, there is no update.

Bounderies in 2015

Guide Escales 2017

Posted on5 December 201614 July 2023One comment

J’ai évoqué en juillet dernier le Guide « Escales », digital version of Bloc Marine published by the Figaro Group. It seems that the remarks I made on the excessively fragmented division of these guides were heard : The version 2017 voit le nombre de modules réduit de 17 down to 12 pour la façade Manche-Atlantique, and 13 down to 10 pour la Méditerranée. C’est une heureuse initiative !

iNavX 5.0 from Charybde to Scylla

Posted on23 November 201615 August 20247 comments

The major update 5.0 of iNavX, issued late August, was unfortunately a long and painful labor for new developers, and a succession of whirlpools and reefs for users. Among the many bugs and regressions laboriously fixed by successive builds, the worst part was the total loss of charts for almost all of us. This is, repeatedly. To top it all off the recent migration, this month, of charting server X-Traverse to a new website ~~Fugawi~~ much more user-friendly, didn't make things easy. Some explanations are necessary. Read more …

The Weather4D 2.0 new is arrived

Posted on14 August 20166 th 202413 comments

No developer vacations ! J’ai évoqué les tests des nouveautés à venir lors de notre long périple from Corsica to Normandy last May. After several weeks of finalization, and mainly to adapt early to future iOS 10 disponible cet automne, here is the delivery of the new version 2.0.15 in Weather4D 2.0. Une addition de nouvelles fonctions très attendues.

stairs – the digital version of Bloc Marine

Posted on20 July 20162 th 2024

At the beginning of this year I wrote the greatest good I thought of the Digital Almanac, the digitized version of Reed’s Nautical Almanac. The Figaro group, Publisher of the website www.figaronautisme.fr, owner of Météo-Consult / The Weather Channel and Logbook – Marine Block, Published since the end 2014 "Stopover Guides", the digitized version of the Marine Block on the iBook Store. Read more …

Roseanor, 2000 nautical miles against the grain around Europe

Posted on15 June 20164 December 20216 comments

Conveying a boat from Corsica to Normandy in May, c’est un peu comme faire le tour du monde à l’envers d’Est en Ouest, en plus modeste. Two thousands nautical miles on the water against winds and tides, four and a half weeks at sea, with thirteen days forced stopover awaiting for good weather conditions, three hundreds and fifty hours of engine to support the sails, 1000 litres de gas-oil, multiple Corsican, Spanish and Portuguese wines bibs, to calm our nerves, quelques packs d’eau pour calmer la soif, et des centaines d’heures à tester les nouvelles fonctions en développement de… Weather4D Routage & Navigation !

Navionics Boating 9.0 update on what's new

Posted on14 June 201612 August 20207 comments

Updated on 17 May, Navionics Boating presents some modifications, in presentation and functionalities.

First of all only subsist Navionics Boating for iPhone and "Boating HD" » for iPad. The old names have disappeared, happily because confusion was great. Version purchased with built-in charting has the name of the region, for example "Europe HD" for iPad. On the other hand, there is a free version called "Seas and Lakes" which allows to test then buy a chart of the area of choice, and additional options. Read more …

Weather4D 2.0.11 A bunch of new features and improvements

Posted on21 th 20166 th 202417 comments

Delivered in AppStore this morning after two weeks of revisions and contre-revisions of Apple services, Always more picky, The new version is finally available. On the menu and in bulk : AIS via internet with AISHub, direct access to Geogarage and cache memory chart management, new model of GRIB weather forecast from Meteo-France AROME HD for inshore races, mode plein-écran, advanced distance calculations, the most visible. Under the hood also a lot of optimization for routing and power consumption. Revue de détail à suivre… Read more …