March, the October Marine Guide 2022 for recreational boating from Météo-France has been updated. All the detailed information and ways to take the weather forecast at sea, from the coast to the open sea. All VHF frequencies and times, SSB, NavTex, radio. Read more …
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Weather4D 100% compatible with NKE
Sailors my friends who love regattas and offshore racing, if you are provided with excellent French instrumentation OF (¹), enjoy ! With the last version 2.0.81 Weather4D Routage & Navigation now supports full transfer of performance data to the NKE Topline bus. Non-Weather4D users please refrain… Read more …
GRIB2 weather files in Weather4D
With the version Routing & Navigation 2.0.81, Weather4D supports weather files in GRIB2 format by external download. For example, the very high resolution model ICON-D2 (¹) of German Weather Service (DWD) for Northern Europe can be opened in the app. Read more …
Share GRIB files with Air Share [Update]
More and more of you have adopted the Iridium GO! for its easy way to request GRIB files, directly from Weather4D and some other applications. But some also want to transfer these files to a PC to import them into Windows software. (as you know, no one is perfect !). An easy solution is available : the messaging app Air Share, compatible iOS/iPadOS (¹). [Update 30 th 2022] Warning : the application has changed its identifier code on the AppStore. Read more …
Sailing with iSailor [Update]
The manual “ Sailing with iSailor » in French has just undergone a complete overhaul with Apple Pages.
- Much more readable portrait format interface
- Revision of illustrations
- Reviewing links
- Glossary review
- Insertion of a summary with return from all pages
- Miscellaneous text corrections.
Weather4D with Mac M1
We've been talking about it since 2020 in the Facebook group of Weather4D users, the messaging app Weather4D Routage & Navigation (¹) now works on Mac with ARM processors : Mac M1 and later, from the system macOS 11.x (“Big Sur” et seq.). Simply connect the Mac to a GPS receiver or NMEA gateway via Wi-Fi to receive the position and navigation data of the instruments. Read more …
SHOM removes facsimiles from UK charts
With the latest update of the SHOM the 16 th 2021, Geogarage announces the removal of 18 facsimile charts from British charts covering, mostly, the south coast of England and Gibraltar. These areas are now only covered by the British Admiralty portfolio (UKHO).
Indeed, SHOM recently announced (¹) the rationalization of its catalog of nautical charts, onwards September 2021, by the deletion of many foreign charts reproduced under historical reciprocity agreements with some foreign hydrographic services. Read more …
Are GRIB files systematically optimistic ?
I've been asked this question regularly, but until now I've never wanted to give my opinion on the subject publicly, so as not to offend anyone or create unnecessary controversy.. But after doing so many of my training courses, why not express it to me openly ?
My opinion, forged by observation and a long professional experience in pleasure boating (¹), is that this assertion of the systematic optimism of GRIB forecasts regarding wind strength, which unfortunately persists, no longer has any reason to exist, and has not been verified in practice for some time. Read more …
Weather4D Routing User Guide
New publication of Manuels to Weather4D Routage in French version. Warning, it is a new version to download which replaces the previous one (¹). The old guide should be removed from your library in the Apple Books app. Read more …
Weather4D Lite User Manual
New publication of Manuels to Weather4D Lite in French version. Warning, it is a new version to download which replaces the previous one (¹). The old guide should be removed from your library in the Apple Books app. Read more …