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 Mr. FUSTIER, Thanks to you I have buried: my sextan, My Paper Maps, My ephemerides, my Cras rule, my pencils… for many years I have been sailing with iNavX iPhone 3GS, 4GS, 8 Right now. As a backup I have MacEnc on my MacBook Pro (It still works to this day). This year I have a great pleasure to tack with a 3rd generation iPad Air and the new iNavx, It's fantastic.
Thanks again
Philippe Lano
Good evening Francis,
My children had given me a gift of 2010 one of the 1st iPads. I quickly understood that it would become indispensable in navigation. On the STW website we could already read "All the answers to our questions are on Francis Fustier's website"
Thank you again and Bravo.
Olivier
Since that's what happy birthday is all about and don't change anything, always pleasant and instructive to read you ,merci
Happy birthday !
Thank you for this good job which really helped us.
Thank you also for the personal answers to the problems we have posed through messaging.
Congratulations and Champagne
Thank you Francis for all your help over the years and particularly your work on the Weather4D manual – absolutely essential reading. Well done and Happy Birthday.
Happy birthday Mr Flustier , Thanks for everything , This makes 10 years that I have been following you and we sailors owe you a great deal
jerome lano
Hi son, I also left a message for Francis bises
Happy birthday to Mac Navigation and thank you Francis. I am a loyal reader/aficionado and it is thanks to your conviction and following the rigor of your analyses that I decided a few years ago 5 years of equipping my new boat with an iOS navigation system; I have never regretted; My shipyard told me this morning that we were pioneers.
Good luck!
Dominique
Happy birthday Francis and thank you for this mine of information that you make available to us
Bravo
Benedict
An avid reader, always happy to see a new publication arrive. And thank you for the archives….Mac and Navigation enthusiast!
Happy birthday to your Francis website, thank you for your summaries and your advice.
Don't forget to go sailing.
Francis