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During a weekend of January a little sad, 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 "natives" from the country, Henry and Jean-Etienne. The latter giving us a superb Oceanis 347 for the first test board, in France, navigation applications on a Mac, iPad and iPhone. A big first, somehow. Read more …
It is increasingly common to see an AIS receiver, Automatic Identification System (*), receiver above yacht's chart tables. Although only merchant vessels of over 300 tons and passenger ships are required to fit onboard an AIS Class A transponder, small commercial vessels are increasingly fitted with cheaper standard AIS Class B transponders. Read more …
Menu Weather in these two applications can make a request from a GRIB file weather forecasts and then see it on the open map. Function Request GRIB sends a request to the server Saildocs.com returning to the mailbox file requested. You can then get the file in attachment and store it to the location of your choice (²).
Function Show GRIB will then see the file on the card and scroll forecasts. You may also want to refer to Video tutorial MacENC No. 3 on the website.
Here is a short technical summary of the weather module integrated in these two apps. Read more …
Richard Ray announced on the forum macsailing.net forum that great progress had been made on adding support NMEA 2000 in MacENC. MacENC 8 now use the Actisense NGT-1 USB gateway to connect the Mac to a network N2K (¹).
Company Fugawi, Navionics dealer through its website X-Traverse, has just released information on the forum iphonesailing.net in regard to the new charts pricing policy, most about Navionics for iNavX 3.0 with iPad. Read more …
As is mentioned in GPSNavX and MacENC Help pages, under "Simulator", can use the Simulator to proceed a dead reckoning. Simulator, Indeed, can be handy if you do not – or more – have a connected GPS. Read more …
Draw selection
Since my article 20 November about the subject, the version 7.40 of MacENC brought the possibility to draw straight lines on the map with the "Annotation" tool.
This can now create routes more easily than freehand, creating less of waypoints.
The principle is the same explained in the previous article, the procedure remains the same. Read more …
My article on the iPad as future device for iNavX, I expressed the commercial position of Navionics about installing their charts on a single device (Read the answer quoted by Amanda Holt).
Well, Navionics has to change its attitude and it's great !
Navionics now allows two activations their charts and maps bought from their X-Traverse.com website. Read more …
To connect a GP32 (31 or 30) with a Mac or PC, we must first strip the free end of the cable connector 6 pin contains the data wires, in addition to positive and negative power wires. The diagram below shows the principles of wiring.Both applications offer direct printing of screen content. It is very convenient to print a chart, whatever the scale used to screen. Indeed, Print this concerns only the chart content visible on screen, excluding pop-up windows. Generally it must first choose a print in landscape, and then use the menu File > Print.
Direct printing with GPSNavX