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I had presented in May 2015 the excellent raster charts NV Charts by the German Publisher NV Verlag. In 2016, the previous cutting in 4 areas for France - Channel and Atlantic coasts - has been split into 8 areas for 49,90$ apiece. It should be noted that each year a new edition replaces the previous one, there is no update.
Bounderies in 2015
J’ai évoqué en juillet dernier le Guide « Escales », digital version of Bloc Marine published by the Figaro Group. It seems that the remarks I made on the excessively fragmented division of these guides were heard : The version 2017 voit le nombre de modules réduit de 17 up to 12 pour la façade Manche-Atlantique, and 13 up to 10 pour la Méditerranée. C’est une heureuse initiative !
The major update 5.0 of iNavX, issued late August, was unfortunately a long and painful labor for new developers, and a succession of whirlpools and reefs for users. Among the many bugs and regressions laboriously fixed by successive builds, the worst part was the total loss of charts for almost all of us. This is, repeatedly. To top it all off the recent migration, this month, of charting server X-Traverse to a new website Fugawi much more user-friendly, didn't make things easy. Some explanations are necessary. Read more …
No developer vacations ! J’ai évoqué les tests des nouveautés à venir lors de notre long périple from Corsica to Normandy last May. After several weeks of finalization, and mainly to adapt early to future iOS 10 disponible cet automne, here is the delivery of the new version 2.0.15 in Weather4D 2.0. Une addition de nouvelles fonctions très attendues.
At the beginning of this year I wrote the greatest good I thought of the Digital Almanac, the digitized version of Reed’s Nautical Almanac. The Figaro group, Publisher of the website www.figaronautisme.fr, owner of Météo-Consult / The Weather Channel and Logbook – Marine Block, Published since the end 2014 "Stopover Guides", the digitized version of the Marine Block on the iBook Store. Read more …
Conveying a boat from Corsica to Normandy in May, c’est un peu comme faire le tour du monde à l’envers d’Est en Ouest, en plus modeste. Two thousands nautical miles on the water against winds and tides, four and a half weeks at sea, with thirteen days forced stopover awaiting for good weather conditions, three hundreds and fifty hours of engine to support the sails, 1000 litres de gas-oil, multiple Corsican, Spanish and Portuguese wines bibs, to calm our nerves, quelques packs d’eau pour calmer la soif, et des centaines d’heures à tester les nouvelles fonctions en développement de… Weather4D Routing & Navigation !
Updated on 17 May, Navionics Boating presents some modifications, in presentation and functionalities.
First of all only subsist Navionics Boating for iPhone and "Boating HD" » for iPad. The old names have disappeared, happily because confusion was great. Version purchased with built-in charting has the name of the region, for example "Europe HD" for iPad. On the other hand, there is a free version called "Seas and Lakes" which allows to test then buy a chart of the area of choice, and additional options. Read more …
Delivered in AppStore this morning after two weeks of revisions and contre-revisions of Apple services, Always more picky, The new version is finally available. On the menu and in bulk : AIS via internet with AISHub, direct access to Geogarage and cache memory chart management, new model of GRIB weather forecast from Meteo-France AROME HD for inshore races, mode plein-écran, advanced distance calculations, the most visible. Under the hood also a lot of optimization for routing and power consumption. Revue de détail à suivre… Read more …
Yachtmen my friends, do you know Altor ? Of course not, don't look for, me either until this morning. Altor est un investisseur du nord de l’Europe qui se présente ainsi :
“Altor est une famille de fonds d’investissement privés focused on investing in and developing and medium sized companies with’a Nordic origin. We want to create valeurs durables and make a real difference en tant que a valuable partner pour les propriétaires et les gestionnaires in buiding to world class companies. Nous travaillons avec a Nordic team with une vaste expérience internationale in fields such as private equity, consulting, investment banking and various industrial sectors."
Mais pourquoi donc en parler ? Read more …
In recent years, French startups have flourished in the world of recreational boating. Their common denominator is to use digital technology to implement an idea which intends to provide a unique service to boaters.. How many will survive ? Hard to say, but they all have the merit of dusting off dad's boating by addressing the younger generation of water sports enthusiasts.. Community sharing of information, co-location, « bla-bla-boat », so many responses to new attitudes in the practice of pleasure boating.
Among them, one particularly appealed to me, Deviated.