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It's the holidays !

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At sea from July, 20 th until August 3 August, I will use a Mediterranean journey for a report on the use of several devices discussed on this blog :

  • Iridium and Isatphone Pro with Optimizer WXA-102 from Global Marine Network, GRIB file requests with iPad / iPhone.
  • XGate on MacBook Pro with IsatPhone, GRIB file requests with MacENC.
  • Seasmart WiFi and NMEA2000 network with iNavX on iPad / iPhone.

Enough to keep you busy during the ten days of sailing planned between Port-Leucate and Dubrovnik. Hoping that our tests will leave us time to enjoy the sea, few planned stops and some fish have liked to bite our hooks.

There will therefore no more post on this blog before… mid- August, or even early September. But the result of my investigations will be largely developed next autumn.

And as a bonus, but don't say anything to anyone, It's a rumor : a test of the integration of the speed polars into the router function of Weather4D PRO.

Happy sailing to all.

Testimony : Transquadra and Navigation Mac

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BluestairsAfter Jean Debèze, avid supporter of Navigation Mac, made me the pleasure of a detailed tutorial about installing a multiplexer aboard his sailboat, here's a ticket by Jacques Vermeulen, who testifies in a very didactic way to his experience during the recent Transquadra, on board "Bluestairs", with the owner and friend Marc Bolla.

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Placed at the Transquadra 2011/2012, We met, during the first stage of the Mediterranean Barcelona-Porto Santo (Madeira), problems receiving and sending GRIB and data files via the Iridium network. Email was impossible to use with the Iridium Airtime cards we used. All we were left with was the possibility of calling with the Iridium.

Back after this first stage, I decided to deepen the subject and educate myself with Francis Fustier whom I had knowledge, Until now, than through his blog, really comprehensive. Read more …

I am writing to you from Gibraltar

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Hey yes ! After this wonderful stay on the island of Reunion, here I am embarked without transition aboard "Rafale", a Catana 47 chartered for the ARC rally, A specially equipped proprietary model with carbon mast, Horn Mylar SGS, spinnaker, and other I forget . Underway to the Canarias, via Gibraltar, to start in Las Palmas.

Gibraltar

Under way to Gibraltar

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Navigator Training and Support

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apple_devicesTo respond to the request of multiple users of Apple products, I plan for 2011 a Offering support and training services designed for specific boaters users of Apple products and related applications.

Implementation, on board a boat, Apple devices : Mac, iPad , iPhone, is not obvious to everyone, I offer to advise, to help connect with the on-board instruments, put in running order and training in the use of common applications which I am currently testing and translating. These services can be carried out on board boats throughout the French coast, choice of requesting skippers.

This offer is provided as freelance trainer. Interested sailors can contact me using the form " Contact » of my website.

A new "Reading" section

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This blog, All in all, quite technical, seems to me to be cruelly lacking in poetry ! So I decided to bring it to the table., from time to time, A little distraction by sharing with you my favorite "maritime" reads. This may be the source for some of you ideas to spend the long sailing days – that many landowners imagine so boring – and for others long winter evenings spent on shore awaiting the come-back of spring time.

I have no ambition to pose as a literary critic. Simply to introduce those who do not already know them to the few books, Novels or techniques, which I particularly like.

Back, I'm interested in any literary discovery, more or less maritime, of which I would be ignorant, there must be a bunch of them !

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Titles in the Reading section
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A computer on board, What for ?

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This is the question that kills. Just as much as my answer : nothing !

Let me explain. In coastal navigation, it's frankly useless. IT doesn't add anything to security, is not much easier than a conventional GPS, Doesn't save time. If we compare the time it takes to plot the GPS point on a nautical chart (I am not talking about postponing esteem) time wasted in front of a computer screen tinkering with a whole bunch of superfluous functions, We quickly realize that the computer on board is a millstone. Read more …

About alignments and sextant

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This holiday season, during which we happily return for a few days to the traditions, inspires me to rethink the traditions of an activity that is dear to us : navigation.
Not that of our illustrious predecessors, royal navies, discoverers of distant lands, corsairs, pirates or honest merchants, isn't it. I want to talk about the one that has concerned us for more than half a century : yachting. Especially to the attention of our friends who are sailors born in 70-80, who discovered navigation from the years 90, period of the appearance of GPS on board our pleasure boats.
I, who is constantly adding a website and a blog on the intricacies of computing onboard, of all these tools which bring us our position a few meters away, what the weather will be like in eight days, the height of water under the keel, the time at which it will be necessary to tack to take advantage of the favorable wind shift, and how much additional information is available in three mouse clicks, I don’t forget how I learned to sail.

This holiday season, during which we happily return for a few days to the traditions, inspires me to rethink the traditions of an activity that is dear to us : navigation.

Not that of our illustrious predecessors, royal navies, discoverers of distant lands, corsairs, pirates or honest merchants, isn't it. I want to talk about the one that has concerned us for more than half a century : yachting. Especially to the attention of our friends who are sailors born in 1970-80, who discovered navigation from the years 1990, period of the appearance of GPS on board our pleasure boats. Read more …

Welcome to the blog !

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Welcome to the blog Navigation Mac, I invite you initially to have a look on the About page for explanations about the motivations of this blog.

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