Launched at the same time as the iPhone 3GS and iNavX app, and a few months before the first iPad, This blog follows since 10 n the continued growth of mobile devices used in marine navigation.
Through more than 350 Articles, I tried to guide users through the evolution of Apple mobile navigation hardware and applications.
With a ten-year daily average of 210 visits and 360 Page views, with 1450 Comments to articles over the past ten years, This blog confirms the constant progress of tablets and smartphones on board our boats.
And that's not counting the hundreds of emails exchanged with visitors to the website and blog, and the hundreds of hours of training and assistance that this activity has earned me with dozens of sailors throughout France and beyond, at my house or on their boat, or during on-board courses with ACM. I have also been asked to give conferences presenting navigation on tablets by many organizations, Yacht Clubs, Associations, marinas, in France and also in Switzerland. Some great friendships were born of these benefits, and quite a few nautical miles covered have resulted from it.
When passion, technicity and some skills intermingle and accumulate, It is a pleasure to share them with your fellow boaters. Hoping to be able to share it with as many people as possible for a while longer, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have shown their confidence in me in the use of these great navigation tools, Gone from science fiction to everyday reality in a few years.
Champagne !
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Happy birthday and long life.
Merci.
Patrick
Bravo and thank you for your competence and your valuable advice. You make our work much easier….
Kind regards.
PY
eh, oui,merci!
It's Christophe, the conveyor, who convinced me in the Azores when we were waiting for the winds to change to return “home”, in Belgium
First sea trials of the IPAD at Herbaudière direction Pornic…January 2011, so many geek memories !
Thank you for the numerous help by phone or email. Thank you for this blog which I do not fail to visit almost every day …whenever something new is announced …and who made me the IPAD and IPHONE reference of l’Herbaudière!
Magnificent work and diligence of our friend Francis FUSTIER
Henri
Bravo and a big thank you for your fantastic work and your dedication to the “electronic navigation” cause.
A big thank you to Mr FUSTIER who never missed an opportunity to be of service, even as a beginner that I was on Mac then on tablet. There are people like that we should clone.
MV
This anniversary deserved a reminder post. Thanks again for the work accomplished.
For me, as no doubt many of the visitors, it will have opened my eyes to a world of navigation aids that I did not know. Today the iPad controls everything on board. It provides valuable assistance to the boaters that we are but does not exempt us from keeping our seamanship like our old habits of the past..
Long Live Mac Browsing.
I would visit you like every year with great pleasure at the Nautic.
Bruno
Many thanks for everything you do
My boat is based in St Vaast la Hougue, I know it speaks to you.
Thierry
Thank you very much for everything you do and thank you for all the advice you gave us., it's really lucky to have you.
Thank you also for your extreme kindness and your unblemished availability., I had to ask you several times for advice and you were always there.
Thank you again and see you soon at the shows.
Jack
Bravo and thank you for all this information disseminated with pedagogy and passion. I never stay long without coming to this blog to find something to maintain my level on the applications of technological advances to the navy.. I wanted to show my gratitude for all this work..