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With iPad 3G finally in hands, featured iNavX and the (beta) version AyeTides XL in testing, I'm going to give you my first impression, previously to perform an extended test at sea.
Regardless of the fact that the iPad can be used for many other things than shipping, I am now totally convinced of its utility on board, Here are the reasons. Read more …
INavX 3.0.2, available soon on the AppStore, comes with a much anticipated feature and welcome improvements :
This feature, although criticized by some purists (of which I am part), was implemented to respond to numerous requests from users visiting the forum iphonesailing.net. Read more …
Published in 1939, " The Mystery of Swordfish Reef ” was not published in France until the year 2000 by Editions 10/18, translated from the English by Michèle Valencia.
Arthur Upfield, born in England in 1888, was sent at the age of nineteen years by his parents in Australia. He would spend his whole life there, except the period of the 14-18. war. He will discover the wildlife outback Australian outback, will cross for years throughout the continent, living off odd jobs and makeshift jobs. He will meet in 1927 a mixed aboriginal, Queensland Police "tracker", who will inspire the character of Detective Napoleon Bonaparte, and reveal with him a great talent for writing novels. He will publish its first thriller in 1928, and would not cease until his death in 1964, at the rate of nearly one novel per year. He is now recognized as the father of the "ethnological thriller" (*).
With 30 detective novels written by Arthur Upfield, a single has the action at sea, far from the outback and aborigines : it is " The Swordfish Reef ”. Read more …
Since my post 20 2013, We were impatiently waiting for the dismantling of the’iPad 3G to discover its communication components (3G, GPS). From the first delivery, Our friends at iFixit rushed to the "beast" for total dissection. Read more …
The authorBorn in Sweden in 1953, Full Professor of French Literature at the University of Lünd in Sweden, his first novel, "Long John Silver", published in 1992, quickly achieved real success. Danish Translator, English and French, philologist and criticist, he has been invited on many occasions to the "Etonnants Voyageurs" Festival in Saint-Malo. Read more …
Navionics charts, C-Map charts, BlueChart, MapMedia… You will admit that we have difficulty finding our way in all these brands of electronic cartography. Who belongs to whom ? What works with what ?
To help you see things more clearly, I took a little time to locate the main actors who, au final, provide us these wonderful charts that avoid storing pounds of paper. place free, and ecological in addition ! Once again, follow the leader… Read more …
As discussed in the GPSNavX and MacENC help pages, under the “Simulator” section, you can use the function Simulator to carry out dead reckoning navigation. The simulator, Indeed, can be practical in the case where we do not have – or more – a connected GPS. Read more …
HistoricalPublished in 1978 in New York under the title " The Shipkiller ”, this maritime thriller has been translated in France by Grasset & Fasquelle under the title "The Killer of the Seas" in 1979, then moved to the Livre de Poche edition under the n° 5399 in 1980. Read more …
This blog, All in all, quite technical, seems to me to be cruelly lacking in poetry ! So I decided to bring it to the table., from time to time, A little distraction by sharing with you my favorite "maritime" reads. This may be the source for some of you ideas to spend the long sailing days – that many landowners imagine so boring – and for others long winter evenings spent on shore awaiting the come-back of spring time.
I have no ambition to pose as a literary critic. Simply to introduce those who do not already know them to the few books, Novels or techniques, which I particularly like.
Back, I'm interested in any literary discovery, more or less maritime, of which I would be ignorant, there must be a bunch of them !
Choice of route
Since my article from 20 November about the subject, the version 7.40 by MacENC brought the possibility of drawing straight lines on the map with the “Annotation” tool.
This now makes it easier to create routes than freehand., by creating fewer waypoints.
The principle is the same as explained in the previous article, the procedure remaining the same. Read more …