At the bend of a search on App Store for my previous post, I found out under the term "Simrad" an application that furiously reminds me of something. From research to research, I discover the company Electric Pocket. This British applications publisher develops the applications for mobile from 1997, up torecently the applications nautical under the name Pocket Mariner. That company is based in Wales, United Kingdom, and deals with partners from around the world.
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Marine electronics manufacturers and the Tablet phenomenon
A few days before the opening of Nautic Paris boat show where, I remember, I will be present on the stand iTabNav (Hall 2.1 – D31), an overview is required. And precisely, in our immediate horizon we will have, like every year, the proximity of their representatives and marine electronics manufacturers.
In the previous edition of the boat show, I could see the nervousness - not to say hostility - manufacturers respect the phenomenon Crescent of tablets and other smartphones on the market of navigation. (A) promote these devices and their applications, I do probably not have only friends in this environment. However, the strong pressure of the purchasers of boats, and so navigation electronics, a forced such manufacturers to incorporate a minimum of interactivity between their own equipment and mobile devices now owned by a majority of browsers.
What prompts me to do a quick update on the State of the supplied applications and the progress of the proposed functions.
Routing and safety precautions
With the advent of powerful weather-routing applications on our tablets and smartphones, as Weather4D up to SailGrib WR, at really affordable prices, Routing democratizes for boating. The quality of these applications already seduced the amateur sailors, and even some high-seas professional riders, but also a growing number of leisure boaters. Riders use the routing in the essential interests of performance, achieve the fastest route from one point to another, so leisure boaters are more focused on getting safer and more comfortable routes. For them, the concept of speed is used primarily to avoid periods of bad weather, and the optimized route to escape from areas where sea and wind conditions can be dangerous. The routing is also used in this : even in powerboating, you may try to avoid too much wind speeds or wave heights to ensure ypur crew comfortable and serene trip. But what credit grant routing ? Read more …
Navigation Mac tutorials #2 – Navigate with iNavX [English version]
The iBook tutorial "Navigate with iNavX" is now available in English.
A comprehensive multimedia iBook guide about iNavX use : basic functions, advanced functions, instruments connection. From purchasing and loading charts to TCP/IP connection, a step by step teaching helps you master all the functions of the application. Free updates with major new features coming up.
- 45 double-pages
- 74 screenshots
- 14 videos tutorials
Available in 51 Apple iBook Stores the price of $8.99.
Compatible with the application iBooks Apple iPad and Mac OS 10.9 and later.
ZenLoch, Loch boat 3rd millennium
After sextant future (¹), presented at the Paris Boat Show in December, here is the log of the future revisited by a "Professeur Tournesol" electronics engineer and inventor of Nantes engineering.
The oldest among us will certainly remember this venerable and inexpensive instrument of old sailing ships : le « loch à bateau ». Quote (²):
The "boat" is a wooden board, ballasted to float vertically and connected to the line by a loch bridle. On the line of nodes is made, spaced in principle of 7m72 (is 1/240e nautical mile). It puts the "Ship To" water and let slip the line. Then there are, from the first node, how many nodes pass in hand 15 seconds, which gives the speed in knots.
NavPlay, a navigation application all-in-one from Italy [Update]
Designed by the Italian company NavCove srl, NavPlay is an application that enables interactive navigation planning and monitoring of routes in real time. NavPlay represents a new concept application that aims to completely replace the chart table by combining several tools easy to use : cartography, instruments view, navigation combined view , alarm manager, logbook, multimedia diary, backup on the Cloud, for main. [Update] This app and its company have not spent the year. Read more …
Charting, the game of 7 errors
A recent Thread on the Hisse Et Oh forum, I salute by the way, I challenged the accuracy of the chart data provided on the electronic charts. The issue concerns the fact that, in some location, existing information on the Navionics Marine HD application, or on some chartplotters, are missing on Navionics charts available on the website x-traverse.com used with iNavX (and MacENC). Quote :
"Then the question is : Is there a difference between the carto 46XG and the carto Europe or is the difference due to the app that turns the cards. "
Damned ! It seemed useful to make comparisons closing electronic charts from various sources. As far as I know particularly well geographic location used in example, since it is approaching the harbor of Concarneau, near the beacon tower Le Cochon, passage I borrowed hundreds of times over the years I was working with Glenans Nautical Centre. Read more …
G-Stell sextant future
Incredible ! At a time when the GPS networks multiply (GPS, GLONASS, Beidou-2, and soon Galileo) an exceptional engineer, sailing enthusiast, creates a company and invented the sextant replacing Dad : an electronic sextant requires no knowledge, announced with a precision of less than one nautical mile, the G-Stell. Read more …
SEAiq professional navigation on iPad
A few days before going on a long trip from Toulon to Noumea, My friend Christophe Mahé introduced me to this application that I had gone unnoticed. I sincerely thank him ! As it is never too late to do, some exchanges with the developer helped me install this application on my iPad with all its options. SEAiq was posted on the AppStore in April 2012. Its developer, Mark Hayden, is a Californian computer engineer living a good part of his time with his family or alone around the world aboard his Super Maramu, happy man.
SEAiq Open (¹) is the only application on iPad / iPhone for using vector charts ENC IHO official standards S-52, S-57 up to S-63. With information database included in these charts, and update systems , SEAiq transforms the iPad into a true ECDIS (²) professionnal. Read more …
Marée.info expanded its offering
You know all the good things about this excellent application. Unfortunately, many users did not understand that the "Free" download was for the sole purpose of testing the application before subscribing to data.. This misunderstanding has caused discontent and the developer has considered.
Since the last update access to all tide stations is free for the current day : Read more …