The company Navimatics Corp, located near Seattle, state of Washington, has been offering since October 2010 a complete application for celestial navigation. for iPhone, iPad , and also mobile under Android . It has just been updated to version 1.5 with a new iOS-compliant interface 8/9. Read more …
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G-Stell le sextant du futur
Amazing ! At a time when GPS networks are multiplying (GPS, GLONASS, Beidou-2, and soon Galileo) a genius engineer, sailing enthusiast, creates a company and invents the replacement for dad's sextant : an electronic sextant requiring no knowledge, with a claimed accuracy of less than one nautical mile, on April G-Stell. Read more …
About alignments and sextant
This holiday season, during which we happily return for a few days to the traditions, inspires me to rethink the traditions of an activity that is dear to us : navigation.
Not that of our illustrious predecessors, royal navies, discoverers of distant lands, corsairs, pirates or honest merchants, isn't it. I want to talk about the one that has concerned us for more than half a century : yachting. Especially to the attention of our friends who are sailors born in 70-80, who discovered navigation from the years 90, period of the appearance of GPS on board our pleasure boats.
I, who is constantly adding a website and a blog on the intricacies of computing onboard, of all these tools which bring us our position a few meters away, what the weather will be like in eight days, the height of water under the keel, the time at which it will be necessary to tack to take advantage of the favorable wind shift, and how much additional information is available in three mouse clicks, I don’t forget how I learned to sail.
This holiday season, during which we happily return for a few days to the traditions, inspires me to rethink the traditions of an activity that is dear to us : navigation.
Not that of our illustrious predecessors, royal navies, discoverers of distant lands, corsairs, pirates or honest merchants, isn't it. I want to talk about the one that has concerned us for more than half a century : yachting. Especially to the attention of our friends who are sailors born in 1970-80, who discovered navigation from the years 1990, period of the appearance of GPS on board our pleasure boats. Read more …