iTabNav.fr

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This is an excellent initiative that we owe to Dominique Gauthier : iTabNav.fr is a new French e-commerce website mainly dedicated to iPad (and the iPhone) accessories useful in’marine usage of these devices.

Rather than looking on Google for e-commerce websites overseas, you can now go to a French specialized website. Dominique Gauthier did not hesitate to get my opinion on the technical aspects of his choice of accessories, being himself user and boater.

iTabNav.fr has been open for a few days, its catalog will gradually grow, I salute his initiative and wish him good luck.

Receive NMEA 2000 data with iNavX

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ngw1It is now possible to connect a N2K system (¹) at iNavX, on iPhone or iPad.

Indeed, Actisense company, well known for its NMEA interfaces (multiplexers and gateways), designed the NGW-1 ISO, an NMEA 2000 gateway converter to NMEA 0183 and vice versa. Connected to a Miniplex-2Wi by ShipModul ou un WLN10 device, the data thus converted will be sent via WiFi to iNavX. Read more …

Reading : "The Voyage to Polynesia" by Jean-Jo Scemla

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I had to embark in a few days for a convoying from Mediterranean to Polynesia. Unfortunately, The postponement of the departure to the end of the month and the professional constraints of returning imperatively at the beginning of May have just forced me to give up this trip. Bitter disappointment…

If you can't go there, It is always possible to experience it on paper. Following the "Voyage of Magellan" that I mentioned last December, I suggest a book that I discovered some ten years ago. A book to make you spend the winter by the fire, make you want to discover these islands scattered in the middle of the largest ocean on our planet, through their history told by the greatest travellers of past centuries. Read more …

A test onboard with Navigation Mac

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During a somewhat sad weekend in January, we joined the port of L'Herbaudière, Isle of Noirmoutier, via the picturesque Gois passage at low tide.

We, that is to say, a boating journalist, my wife and myself.

Welcomed by two “naturals” of the country, Henri and Jean-Etienne. The latter putting his superb Océanis at our disposal 347 for the first on-board test, In France, navigation applications on Mac, iPad and iPhone. A great first, somehow. Read more …

iPad , GPS and 3G cellular network subscription

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I'm starting the year in a bad mood ! Unfortunately, I was able to see, through the experiences of many of you, ignorance, not to mention incompetence, many iPad sellers. Not only specializes supermarkets, but also among some Apple Certified Resellers ! This caused purchase errors during the Christmas holidays, and many disappointments. Read more …

Navigator Training and Support

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apple_devicesTo respond to the request of multiple users of Apple products, I plan for 2011 a Offering support and training services designed for specific boaters users of Apple products and related applications.

Implementation, on board a boat, Apple devices : Mac, iPad , iPhone, is not obvious to everyone, I offer to advise, to help connect with the on-board instruments, put in running order and training in the use of common applications which I am currently testing and translating. These services can be carried out on board boats throughout the French coast, choice of requesting skippers.

This offer is provided as freelance trainer. Interested sailors can contact me using the form " Contact » of my website.

About Marine Charting

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Christmas is coming and, whether the celebration is religious or pagan, so traditional gifts.

You've no doubt guessed my passion for marine charting, but before electronic charts, I hold a special attachment to paper charts. I started sailing with SHOM charts in black and white, accompanied by pretty calligraphy engravings representing remarkable capes, alignments. Then appeared the colored charts, flat, difficult to store in a sailboat of 8 meters high. I bought charts from the British Admiralty, even more colourful, impossible formats, with complicated folding and cutting in the form of cartridges. Finally I discovered the West Indies charts Imray charting, of a reduced format, laminated and folded in protective plastic envelopes, a revolution on chart tables. Then SHOM also produces folded charts, "P" for Piacenza, that I sold for several years.

But this generally only represents the 35 Later years of marine charting.

I was therefore particularly fascinated by the two books that follow, maybe you already know because not recent, but which are really worth taking advantage of this festive period to be offered them, if you did not yet got. Read more …