Reading – Navigation Mac

A new Expert Guide published by Voiles & Voiliers

Posted on18 November 202219 October 2023

Navigating with a Digital Tablet and a Smartphone has just been published by Éditions Voiles & Voiliers, Available in bookstores and specialty stores, Since the shop Voiles et Voiliers, on FNAC Books up to Amazon.

A digital version is online at Apple Books Store and also for Kindle.

Tablets and smartphones : Choosing the right device and essential accessories on board.
Navigation applications : Review and detailed description according to your navigation types, by the day, Coast, or offshore.
Integration From mobile devices to on-board instruments : understand and implement.

A pedagogical step-by-step of 128 Pages to update yourself with the latest developments and equip yourself today wisely (19,90 € paper version, 19,99 € sur Apple Books Store). Read more …

Reading : "Clouds and other meteors" Météo-France

Posted on18 May 202122 March 2023Comment

In an article updated in August 2020 (¹), I have described nautical books in digital format that can be usefully saved on iPad in the Apple Books app. Among them I mentioned the works of Météo-France available in PDF format for free download from their documentary portal.

In the “Courses and Manual” section of this site, we can download a new book, published 2020, entitled "Meteorological Observations and Measurements – Tome 1 / Clouds and other meteors ", a veritable mine of information on clouds, and all associated meteorological phenomena, called "meteors" (²). Read more …

Reading : « Beaufort, l’amiral du vent" by Raymond Reding

Posted on24 October 201822 March 2023

It's a long time since I had made a reading note in this category. Lack of time, or lack of discovery ? I found again a real literary enthusiasm from reading this excellent book by Raymond Reding : " Beaufort, Admiral wind ".

Like any sailor that complies, I know the Beaufort scale since my first legs in sailing school, but, shame on me, I never wanted to know more about this famous Francis Beaufort ! Raymond Reding, went like me through Les Glénans Sailing school, finally fills this gap with the dismal delight. Read more …

Reading : 'Electronic charting' HS48 Voiles et Voiliers

Posted on23 May 201526 February 20234 Comments

Since late 2012 I found no more of maritime books causing me the overwhelming desire to share, like the few novels described in this topic " Reading ". Today this feeling resumes me, in any other order of idea, after reading the excellent special issue No. 48 of Voiles et Voiliers : " Understand and use electronic charting ". Read more …

Reading : "As an albatross" by Pierre-Yves Touzot

Posted on16 November 201222 March 2023

This book, published by La Découvrance in August, appropriately takes its meaning as the Vendée Globe is the sports news. Whether you love racing off, Family ocean boater, Grandpa yachtman or single coastal boater, you should read this novel. Read more …

Reading : "L'Énigme of La Diane" by Nicolas Grondin

Posted on27 February 201226 February 2023Comment

There is a long time that I suggested you had more title under "Reading". Technical news are not so much for a few weeks, I take this opportunity to introduce you a great novel discovered thanks to the wise advice of an old friend living in Concarneau. I thank him very much here. Read more …

Reading : "Effective Use of Stars" by Dominique Fortier

Posted on25 August 201126 February 2023

Published by Alto, Quebec, in 2008, He was re-edited editions of The Round Table, Paris, in 2011. He recently received the Award of Seafarers Festival Astonishing Travellers this summer 2011.

I read this book in June, when I heard the presentation in Saint-Malo, and I kept it below the elbow to the evocation Read this section, As I was delighted by the interest of the subject, the quality of the narrative and the freshness of the writing.

Alas, I was overtaken by Arielle Cassim just make the relationship on her blog Seableue. I bow and invite you to get there ! Read more …

Reading : «La désirante» by Malika Mokeddem

Posted on24 April 201126 February 2023

I'm screwing up, install the autopilot, back into the boat, open the logbook. I have to do violence not to read, again, your last annotations. On the virgin page facing them, I write : Friday 5 June 2009. Cast off Port Camargue 5 am. 15 knots on the anemometer. 10 at log. Compass 114 degrees. Slight sea. "

Thus begins the quest for a woman to find her true love lost at sea somewhere in the Mediterranean, between Italy, Sicily and Tunisia. Read more …

Reading : "The Voyage to Polynesia" by Jean-Jo Scemla

Posted on4 February 201126 February 2023

I had to embark in a few days for a convoying from Mediterranean to Polynesia. Unfortunately, the postponement of departure until the end of the month and professional constraints of imperative return in early May have just forced me to give up this trip. Bitter disappointment…

Failing to reach, it is always possible to live on paper. Following the "Voyage of Magellan" that I mentioned last December, I suggest a book that I discovered some ten years ago. A book to make you spend the winter fireside, make you want to leave your turn to discover these islands scattered among the largest ocean on our planet, through their story told by the greatest travelers of past centuries. Read more …

Reading : "The Voyage of Magellan 1519-1522 "Editions Chandeigne

Posted on15 December 201026 February 2023

This time I make you discover a book that I have at the moment of order, not yet read, charmed I was by the rave article from Olivier Chapuis on his webblog.

I have pleasure to send you read it and leave you alone judges. Here 1088 pages that go spend my next days at sea !

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year all ! Read more …