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ENCs, Routing and sailing shaves stone

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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Weather4D PRO 1.3.3 improves routing

Improvements…
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…

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Weather4D PRO 1.3.2 adds the currents in the routing

With version 1.3.2, Weather4D PRO allows to get and display currents as GRIB data. At first, currents available on subscription are provided by the company Tidetech, I mentioned there in the past (¹). Once entered in Weather4D PRO settings a username and password, provided during the subscription, you can access the global catalog [...]

iPolar generates speed polars for Weather4D PRO

You dreamed of it since Weather4D Pro has featured its powerful routing module. He did !
Our Toulousian crazy developer, Olivier Bouyssou, just sent Apple a new app : iPolar.
Developed in collaboration with - and on behalf of - KND SailingPerformance, iPolar calculates polar performance of a yacht according to specific parameters, easy to identify :

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Vendée Globe 2012 and weather routing

During the morning of the Vendée Globe 2012, highly publicized (The palms à the>TELE for retransmission from 9:00 until 14:00 without interruption, immediately behind BFMTV) routing options weather raining on all sides.
With PRO Weather4D analysis can draw two options for the next 48 hours. Is a direct route to Cape Finistere in medium wind conditions rather, with a short passage without wind, about [...]

Routing comes up in Weather4D PRO 1.3

After several months of intensive development and testing, under the conditions mentioned in a previous post, Olivier Bouyssou propose to the date of the last Grand Pavois PRO version Weather4D 1.3.0. No additional cost, the routing module is simply added to the update !
Career as a software developer serving the technical engineering combined with a solid mathematical background (¹) allowed him to develop algorithms [...]

Weather4D PRO 1.2 offers fine grid GRIB files

The update 1.2 of Weather4D PRO will be available in the coming days on iTunes AppStore. In addition to a number of fixes and improvements, this release now offers subscription access to GRIB files at high resolution for several geographic areas of the world.
In association with the Belgian company Great Circle Weather4D PRO provides access to the model GCWF (Great Circle Weather Forecast), the highest resolution currently available [...]

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.

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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 :

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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 [...]