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MOBA Man Overboard with iPhone

7 February 2012
by Francis.
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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 [...]

Weather4D PRO 1.0 includes routes from iNavX

15 nov 2011
by Francis.
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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 [...]

Plan2Nav the C-Map charting on iPhone/iPad

9 oct 2011
by Francis.
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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

22 sept 2011
by Francis.
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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

11 sept 2011
by Francis.
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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.

Meteo Consult embarks on iPhone and iPad

7 July 2011
by Francis.
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Founded in 1988, Meteo Consult the company was the first private weather in France. It was mainly developed forecasting services paid for professional, leaving the public service Meteo France forecasts free care for the general public. Meteo Consult is best known in the field of ocean racing, where it gained an almost exclusive dominance.
Become a subsidiary of Prosodie in [...]

iSailor, charts are available for France

1 june 2011
by Francis.
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Transas has updated the list of new maps available for iSailor, include coasts of France :
∙ Germany ∙ Australia ∙ Bermuda ∙ Canada ∙ Denmark ∙ Egypt ∙ Spain ∙ Estonia ∙ Finland ∙ France ∙ Greece ∙ Italy ∙ Ireland ∙ Latvia ∙ New Zealand ∙ Norway ∙ Papua New Guinea ∙ Netherlands ∙ Portugal ∙ United Kingdom ∙ Sweden ∙ USA : Atlantic Coast, Gulf Coast, Pacific [...]

iNavX, application steadily increasing

31 never 2011
by Francis.
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Since the beginning of the year 2011, not less than six iNavX updates were made by Rich Ray, either one monthly !
If there is nothing revolutionary, many improvements « invisible » were made, as optimizing objects display (waypoints, icons, tracks, routes, etc.), tracks resolution, convenient improvements on measures of distance, waypoints display, the display of information available on [...]

Weather4D 1.1 iPad and iPhone, on top.

21 never 2011
by Francis.
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Two months after out for iPhone, Weather4D (¹), by surprising Olivier Bouyssou, comes with a fully optimized version for iPad, with the modest release number 1.1.
This unique version iPhone / iPad is a simple free upgrade for the lucky purchasers of version 1.0.
And yet, what work it took to adjust and optimize the 3D application, both screens and memory capabilities of iPhone [...]

Are the tidal predictions reliable ?

7 April 2011
by Francis.
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All navigation software offer predictions of tides, more or less long range, covering the world's coastlines. Where come these predictions from ? How are they established ? What is their reliability ? These are all questions that any conscientious yachtman is entitled to ask.

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