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Navionics charts trade policy [Update-2]

26 April 2013
by Francis.
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Alas, it was too good ! On 15 last March I wrote an enthusiastic note announcing the option to renew for 900 days, for half the original price of each Navionics region, time to update charts. As we say in Martinique : ça a pris fin !

Actually, since a few days the renewal was reduced to one year. Fugawi commercial service, which manages the charting website X-Traverse, explains :

We were lucky at X-Traverse to have been granted a wider time frame for renewals from Navionics as an introductory offer for early 2013. We were «catching up» for a long period of months were we did not have any 50% discounted renewal program to match the 50% discount Navionics offered in the Freshest Data program.

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Categories : Cartography.
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Navigate with an iPad on a classic yacht

16 April 2013
by Francis.
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Training week-end onboard the 6 and 7 July 2013 "Navigating with an iPad" on board Owl, a classic ketch gaffer 21 meters, built in 1909, departure from Agde.

The crew (Skipper + mariner / hostess) is responsible for the operation, food and cleaning, linen is provided.

I will be on board to provide training on the use of applications with iPad : iNavX, Weather4D PRO, AyeTides and others. Program : routes preparation, routing optimization, monitoring of optimized routes, refresh routing, etc.. A great time to combine the latest technology in yachting tradition. (Read more…)

Categories : General, iPad, Navigation.

ENCs, Routing and sailing shaves stone

10 April 2013
by Francis.
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The relationship of a recent experience of an iNavX user and Weather4D PRO routing function invites me to bring a warning to the attention of novices boaters in computer use.

A regatta course, from St Helier (Jersey) to arrival Granville, optimized with Weather4D PRO using fine grid GCWF model and MyOcean currents prediction, gave the following route in iNavX :

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The optimized route transferred to iNavX

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Categories : Cartography, General, Navigation, Tutorials.
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Navigation Mac tutorials #2 – Navigate with iNavX

1 April 2013
by Francis.
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A comprehensive multimedia iBook guide about iNavX use : basic functions, advanced functions, interfaces with instruments. From purchasing and loading charts to TCP / IP connection, a step by step teaching helps you master all the functions of the application. Free updates with major new features coming up.

  • 40 pages
  • 68 screenshots
  • 15 video

Available on iBook Stores (*) priced at 8,49 €.

Playback with iPad only.

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(*) France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Canada, Spain.
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Categories : General, iOS - iPhone / iPad, Navigation, Tutorials.
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Help for iNavX in French

11 mar 2013
by Francis.
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iNavX Help is default integrated in English. The French Help is only available if you have an internet connection (WiFi ou 3G). The reason is that the French help has many screenshots, which makes a file with a size incompatible, to date, with the limit imposed by Apple for the maximum size of their applications. It is, thus, only accessible through a web link.

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To have French Help, when you have no network connection, you can download it in PDF file from your iPhone or iPad : I am updating systematically on iNavX page from my website, bottom page. A long press on the icon of the file will open in iBooks where it will be recorded and will be available for offline viewing.

 

Categories : iOS - iPhone / iPad, Software, Tutorials.
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Mirror iPad screen… in the cabin.

2 mar 2013
by Francis.
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And yes, this is the world upside down ! At the beginning of iPad use in a boat, the tablet was used to capture the screen of a PC fixed to a chart table for display applications such as MaxSea in the cockpit. The solution was - and still is - widely used. But since I'm working with some colleagues to show that the iPad is capable of providing a fully autonomous navigation solution (¹), these tablets are increasingly installed in a fixed position in the cockpit.

Once attached and connected to a power tight, on a wheel column or close to the tiller, disassemble the iPad may seem tedious to spend a few minutes inside the cabin. The solution would it not mirror its screen to display on a single PC screen via WiFi, in order to monitor the progress of the boat on the electronic chart while we are active in the galley ? (Read more…)

Categories : Accessories, Equipment, Network.
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An AIS WiFi transponder iNavX compatible

16 February 2013
by Francis.
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Several AIS receivers are already available with a WiFi hotspot and TCP/IP protocol, as excellent iAIS from Digital Yacht. German company Weatherdock AG is the first, my knowledge, to provide an AIS transponder WiFi compatible with applications as iNavX or iRegatta, capable of receiving data via NMEA TCP /IP protocol. (Read more…)

Categories : AIS, iOS - iPhone / iPad, Equipment, Navigation.
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Weather4D PRO 1.3.3 improves routing

15 February 2013
by Francis.
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weather4d proImprovements…

No respite for this application : two and half months after joining the currents in the routing calculation, this latest version provides significant advances on this function. Improvements provide greater accuracy in the calculation of optimized route and new settings allow to fine-tune.

… and two good news :

They relate to current, follow the guide… (Read more…)

Categories : iOS - iPhone / iPad, Software, Meteorology, Tutorials.
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Install a WiFi network onboard

10 February 2013
by Francis.
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Request more frequent from boat owners is for the installation of a WiFi reception onboard. The proliferation of computers, tablets and smartphones on boats incentive to maintain a connection with the Internet, even navigation. Exchanging emails, monitor social networks, receive weather files, and many other reasons lead to an uncontrollable addiction. C’est la vie !

I have already mentioned on my website, in chapter about means for receiving GRIB files, some available solutions : (Read more…)

Categories : Communication, Network, Tutorials.
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Navigation Mac tutorials #1- Prendre la météo par téléphone satellite

2 February 2013
by Francis.
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prendre la meteo par telephone satelliteThe first tutorial Navigation Mac comes up on’iBook Store in French : « Prendre la météo par téléphone satellite – MacBook – iPad – iPhone ». Download from an iPad with iBooks app or from a PC / Mac with iTunes. Playback with iPad only (*).

Available on French language iBook Stores at price 8,49 €.

How to query GRIB weather files from a Mac, an iPad or iPhone. Devices to implement, procedures, applications. A step-by-step embellished with numerous illustrations and links needed. Free Updates as the emergence of major new.

The English version « Get whether forecast with satphone at sea» is available on the main appstores English and France AppStore.

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(*) PDF version on request after purchase
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