I am writing to you from Gibraltar

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.

Under way to Gibraltar

Since the time Christophe offered me one of his deliveries, it finally happened. But it's not just for fun. I'm going to find Mac Navigation contacts in Las Palmas : Stéphane Petit and his family on “Guma”, Fernand Gluck on “Zero Stress” or Gil Fonlladosa on his JSR prototype 1050 « Angela ». Good times ahead, and probably some additional advice to bring, I have no doubt about it.

But that's not all. Olivier Bouyssou, designer of Weather4D joins us to the crossing, with a few good surprises up his wed bag. First a router Iridium Mail by Iridium, send from the U.S.. by Luis Soltero (Global Marine Network) that will allow us to test GRIB files receiving directly from iPad (or an iPhone). Also beta version of future app Weather4D Pro, we have yet prouved the first advanced features. We will have plenty to do, and numerous subjects to write posts, before the presentation of these solutions at the “Nautic” in Paris in December, on iPadNav.fr stand.

In the meantime, stopped by a bad SW gale in Gibraltar, a tipically british weather : wind, greyness, rain, rain again and… greyness , I spend a bit time to write for you present post.