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MOBA Man Overboard with iPhone

Stéphane Azzoni, French domiciled near Barcelona, sailing instructor and conveyor, owner of a Mini Transat, practicing hard regattas and offshore races in the Mediterranean, has developed the application MOBA (*) with the assistance of Swiss studio Hortis Geneva.
Noting that no application on iPhone not intended to function "Man Overboard" as found on Marine GPS, he wanted to overcome this [...]

Search for charts information data with iNavX

Navionics vector charts contain a number of detailed information for each marina, and sometimes some moorings. These places are marked on charts by the symbol shown against.
These data are called in English "Navaids" when information concerning navigation, and "POIs" when dealing with practical and interesting information (Point Of Interest, call number « s » is the plural).

Iridium AxcessPoint : GRIB weather files on iPhone and iPad in open sea

Announced on this blog in September (¹), the housing AxcessPoint company Iridium can now make requests and receive files from a GRIB weather iPad or an iPhone on the high seas, into the wild, anywhere on the world.
Having implemented and tested this solution on a long journey, I can say that it is fully operational.

iOS 5 can delete your Navionics charts without warning

Pleasant surprise in the ARC transatlantic 2011.
After transferring pictures from my camera to my iPad, for some reason the memory was saturated. I had yet to 9GB free and I have transferred the contents of an SD-Card 2GB. Mystery !
Still, after two or three system messages informing me of the next saturation, iOS 5 has simply deleted all my [...]

Navigation iPad : the integral solution

Avec Weather4D PRO et AxcessPoint, associated with an Iridium satellite phone, we now have a complete solution, reliable and low cost to receive, display and manage GRIB files in open seas with iPad.
iNavX and Navionics cartography also provide a complete navigation solution, supporting files transfers with Weather4D PRO : GRIB, routes, tracks, that allows simultaneous display in both applications.
These solutions, [...]

Weather4D PRO 1.0 includes routes from iNavX

The new application for iOS Weather4D PRO (iPhone / iPad), developed by Olivier Bouyssou, was submited yesterday to Apple. It provides advanced features associated with GRIB files for demanding users. It complements the application Weather4D who got promoted to be the best apps in Apple AppStore for several weeks.
This Pro version, quickly available, will provide following features :
GRIB files management :

Import, sharing (export ), copy-paste, ranking [...]

Updated iOS5 and iNavX

Richard Ray tells us :

I noticed after updating iOS 5 that any charts I had downloaded into iNavX were not restored. This occurred because the iOS 5 update requires a full restore of the device and the charts are not stored in the iOS backup (because of iCloud).Let me know if you see different behavior.
To restore any NOAA charts, then select [...]

Plan2Nav the C-Map charting on iPhone/iPad

The application Jeppesen Marine Plan2Nav arrived on iTunes AppStore during September for iPhone and iPad.
As I detailed in a previous post (¹), the Italian company C-Map has been owned 2007 by the US Jeppesen, leader in aerial mapping, depending on the Boeing group. We knew that Jeppesen was preparing an application for smartphone, Panbo had seen a draft in March at the Miami Boat Show, is now done, but…

Predict thunderstorms with Weather4D

The new version Weather4D 1.2 features a new weather parameter : CAPE
Convective Available Potential Energy, in French : Available potential energy of convection. Behind these names barbarians hiding a powerful tool for predicting storms. The CAPE is measured in joules per kilogram of air (J / Kg) and defines the energy of a particle buoyancy of warmer air in a colder atmosphere. In other words, the vertical acceleration of the particle [...]

Weather4D 1.2 présenté au Grand Pavois

Weather4D 1.2 will be introduced by the designer, Olivier Bouyssou, at Grand Pavois boat show in La Rochelle from 15 to 17 September's stand iPadNav.fr.
This new version 1.2, which will be available for update to iTunes App Store on this date, brings many improvements and new.