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 ".
Bruno Clément and Jérôme brilliant, in partnership with members of the Glénans sailing school, engage in a study and very relevant analysis of the benefits as limitations of the use of electronic charting.
After a careful description of types of charting available, and a state of the equipment supporting, PC laptops, tablets, multifunction displays, the authors describe the use of these modern tools in terms of marine sense, the critical sense, in the preparation and monitoring of navigation. Highlighting the strengths, but also the traps, associated with their use, they did not fail to illustrate the point by the study of recent maritime casualties caused by incompetent use of electronic charts. Positive, They highlight recent functions to greatly increase security, AIS, Man overboard, alarms, not forget to mention the routing.
One particularly educational special that we should all have in onboard library.. Well done !
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With my tablet iNavX has a TCP/IP connection with IP and port I connect that is a
wonder then open MidWifi then iRegatta Pro Imray then iSailor then Weather4D Pro and
always the same wonder finally open NAVIONICS BOATING EUROPE HD but I cannot
understand why there is no TCP connection
Because Navionics Boating does not handle the TCP/IP protocol
Hello Francis
Last night I made the purchase a little compulsively of this HS "Sails and Sailboats" on the maps. I felt like it would duplicate your great posts like "browsing with a tablet" as well as iBooks on "Inavx" and "Weather4D Pro.". Hey well at all, it is a "must have" because there are very interesting examples concerning both long-distance cruise sailors and those who will make shorter crossings.
Finally there's these two presentations on the misadventures of the star of customs and one of the sailboat's Volvo Ocean Race very well explained. Them only these two examples are a mine of teachings… and humility that we should all bear in mind.
In passing congratulations on your site that I discovered during a forced rest : It is a mine of information for a geek of the Mac and iOS products browser.
Thanks for your comments. Concerning the two maritime accidents mentioned, see my article on the analysis I did, and links to official reports.