Update 2.2 (February 2025)
- Get Weather Forecast with Satphone at Sea
- Get Weather forecast with Satphone at Sea.
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- Updated pricing 2025.
- Starlink Services Update.
- Updated connection Go!exec® with Weather4D Routing & Navigation.
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Author : Francis
From 2009 independent IT trainer and consultant for boating. Translator of several navigation apps on iOS and MacOS. Professional in boating for over 30 years old, I dispense from training to applications as well as advice and assistance for the integration of mobile devices (tablets, smartphones) on board pleasure boats.
Update Weather4D R&N 2.0.94
Update Weather4D 2.0.94 Fixing potential crashes of the application in certain conditions of use.
Updated also Weather4D Routage 2.0.59
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Mac Navigation in the Blue Sky
Navigation Mac is now on Blue Sky @navigationmac.bsky.social
Definitive abandonment of X… Read more …
Celestial, navigation on iPhone and iPad [Update-2]
[January update 2025] This great app, not updated for several years, no longer works and has been removed from the Apple Store. It's a shame because I had made the French version. A similar alternative could be Celestial Nav whose latest version 3.3 September date 2025, at the price of €30 for the PRO lifetime license. Compatible iOS 26.
`I haven't had the chance to test it yet.
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SHOM map update at Geogarage
Catalog update SHOM charts France / DOM-TOM and dependencies by Geogarage for Weather4D Routage & Navigation and SailGrib WR
- 214 updated charts (dont 13 new editions)
- 4 deleted charts
The catalog includes 860 charts (1430 with insets)
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MacENCx64 V.10.2.0 Update
This important Updating the app mainly concerns the cartographic rendering of the user interface.
Update of the UKHO charts catalogue at Geogarage
Update of the British charts catalogue from UKHO for Weather4D Routage & Navigation and SailGrib WR by Geogarage.
- 828 updated charts, dont 15 new editions
- 1 Map deleted
In total the UKHO catalog includes 888 charts (1646 with insets)
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BBC Radio 4 – The Shipping Forecast celebrates its 100 years old
2025 marks the 100 years of the broadcast of marine weather forecasts The Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4. This emblematic transmission, produced by the UK Met Office on behalf of MCA_media, continues to be a vital safety service for mariners along our coasts.
I had written an article at the beginning 2010 (¹) on the gradual disappearance of radio weather forecasts in France, and praised the consistency of the BBC bulletin. Fifteen years later, the marine weather forecast is still broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Long Waves at the same unchanging times. Hats off ! Read more …
The magnetic north pole is on the move [Update-2025]
Earth's magnetic north pole is rapidly moving away from the Canadian Arctic towards Siberia. NCEI scientists (¹) updated the global magnetic model (WMM) 2025.
The position of the geomagnetic North Pole is 80.8°N in latitude and 138.6° E in longitude
New Argentina catalog at Geogarage
Replacing the Raster Map Catalog with the NHS ENC charts by Geogarage rasterized for Weather4D Routage & Navigation and SailGrib WR.
- 101 Argentina maps.
- 6 Antarctica maps
The catalog includes 107 tiled raster maps from ENCs.