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Reading this day of Starlink services conditions For the unlimited roaming package, It appears that "maritime" mode (formerly "priority data") is maintained beyond the coastal area. It can therefore always be activated as in the past.
Excellent news for long -term boaters despite the increase in the 79 down to 89 € recently. Do not forget about address changes after two months outside the subscription region.
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Users will appreciate : 6 years after the latest version 1.11.0, against all expectations Wärtsilä publishes a update 1.12.2.
Nothing extraordinary however, But it was well worth a brief :
Unlike my fears, Isailor seems not to be completely abandoned.
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[Updated] : Reading the dysfunctions noted In the comments below, It would still seem that this application is at the end of life…
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Not even a year after announcing the end of production of its famous nautical charts (¹), Imray is back with a new partner. English publishers Imray and Austrian freytag & berndt consider the creation of a joint company to ensure the future of marine charts (²).
Read more …
Iridium has just announced the withdrown of the application and the service Iridium Mail & Web app in September 2025 !
We wanted to inform you that after more than a decade of service, l’application Iridium® Mail & Web will be put out of service 13 th 2025. We understand that this service has played a vital role by allowing end users to remain connected in distant places, And this decision was not taken lightly."
Catalog update SHOM charts France / DOM-TOM and dependencies by Geogarage for Weather4D Routage & Navigation and SailGrib WR
The catalog includes 863 charts (1429 with the inserts)
All international cards have been removed and will not be replaced by SHOM (See the information of the GeoGarage blog). However, they continue to be present in the database (but will no longer be updated from their last version).
I presented in September 2023 (¹) the latest mobile communication device of the Iridium company : the GO! Exec®. Iridium has just announced the availability of its new social network application Chat App In Apple Store and Google Play. Read more …
The newspaper Le Monde published in November 2024 this great study in his collection « Nature ».
Prefaced by Jean-Louis Etienne, our national explorer that we no longer present, this extremely didactic scientific work allows us to deepen our knowledge of the climate, meteorology, and disturbances they undergo.
Updating charts Norway (NHS) at Geogarage for Weather4D Routage & Navigation and SailGrib WR.
232 Charts (470 including inserts) are available in the Geogarage catalogue.
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March, the volume 2 from Introduction to Marine Weather – Weather in the Mediterranean, is updated on the iBook Store (Apple Books)
Version 1.2 – Layout improvements and link fixes.
Warning : A severe bug still unfixed affects the new process for uploading book updates. The version number is no longer replaced on the iBook Store and remains "Original". On the other hand, the description of the modifications is present. Once again : thank you Apple !
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Update of "rasterized" ENC charts Portugal (IHPT) at Geogarage for Weather4D Routage & Navigation and SailGrib WR.
The catalogue also includes Madeira, Azores, Islands of the Cape Verde, plus additional cards Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome and Principe and Angola.
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