March, the NOAA has posted a superb animated digital mapping ocean bottom. A few thousand feet below our keel, this fantastic landscape leaves you dreaming. I can not help you to relay it with translation of their related comment. Read more …
Reading : "The Voyage to Polynesia" by Jean-Jo Scemla
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
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
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
To 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.
Reading : "Magellan's Voyage 1519-1522 " published by Editions Chandeigne
For this time I am introducing you to a book that I have just ordered, so not yet read, seduced as I was by The dithyrambic article from Olivier Chapuis on his webblog.
I have pleasure to send you read it and leave you alone judges. There you go 1088 pages that will occupy my next days at sea !
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year all ! Read more …
About Marine Charting
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, 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 …
Disturbances in GRIB files
Disturbances are not just atmospheric, it happens that they are also in the transmission of GRIB files !
Some of you alert me for two or three days about difficulties to receive files, or the absence of data displayed in iNavX.
After checking in requesting last night from my iPad, I was forced to note, once a file loaded after long minutes of waiting, that the data were not displayed on the chart. By checking the GRIB display with MacENC, only the wind vectors appeared, but not the contours. So I contacted by myself Richard Ray who, thanks to jet lag, was able to react immediately. Read more …
Crossing the Atlantic with an iPad
I cannot resist the urge to show you some pics (*) to iNavX on iPad which has just crossed the Atlantic, from Mediterranean to Martinique. The sailor has abandoned his MacBook Air, on which he uses MacENC for several years with S-57 ENC charts. It switched to an iPad 3G, featured iNavX, Navionics Gold charts and the Apple app Numbers to write his log book.
iNavX in action
View the currents on electronic charts ?
I deliberately title this article in the form of a question. Many users, all countries included, want the visualization of currents in Richard Ray's applications. Indeed, there is no display function of the currents in GPSNavX, MacENC and iNavX. It is a deliberate choice by the developer because there are many data sources and all hydrographic services are unwilling to provide their files in digital format. In addition, Users are likely to take data displayed on their cards as safe and certain, With consequences that could engage the liability of the publisher and legal risks, especially in the USA, too big for the developer. Read more …