The blog
Launched at the same time as the iPhone 3GS and iNavX app, and a few months before the first iPad, This blog follows since 10 n the continued growth of mobile devices used in marine navigation.
Through more than 350 Articles, I tried to guide users through the evolution of Apple mobile navigation hardware and applications. Read more …
In full political news on global climate change, the terrible Hurricane Harvey questioned some scientists about the link between warming due to human activities and intense weather events increasing in recent years.
Source : National Weather Service
Michael E. Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University, director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center and author of three books, including The Hockey Stick and The Climate Wars, Dire Predictions, and The Madhouse Effect, develops a long commentary in theguardian.com (¹) about it, freely translated by myself.
A year after my advocacy for free European data (¹) Météo-France finally offers free access to its two famous ARPEGE and AROME models. A welcome development, started in 2014 by the success of MyOcean, since then integrated into Mercator Ocean (²), but a notable change of attitude for a public establishment which has always been asked to self-finance a significant part of its budget. Forecasts from these two models are made available on Météo-France portal in the GRIB version 2 format. Since the 21 July 2015.
A few days before the opening of the Nautic Paris boat show where, I remind him, I will be present on the stand iTabNav (Hall 2.1 – D31), An overview is in order. And precisely, in our immediate horizon we shall have, like every year, proximity to marine electronics manufacturers and their representatives.
At the previous edition of the boat show, I had noticed the reluctance – not to say hostility – of manufacturers towards the growing phenomenon of tablets and other smartphones on the navigation market. By dint of promoting these devices and their applications, I probably didn't just make friends in this business. However, Strong pressure from boat buyers, et donc d’électronique de navigation, a contraint lesdits fabricants à intégrer un minimum d’interactivité entre leur propre matériel et les appareils mobiles possédés désormais par une majorité de navigateurs.
Ce qui m’incite à faire un rapide point sur l’état des applications fournies et l’avancée des fonctions proposées.
This could be a subject of the Baccalaureate in Economic Sciences, and although I never took this exam (because of post-68 incompatibility and Cancerism chronic) The subject seems to me sufficiently imminent and serious to attempt to deal with it, from my modest point of view. Read more …
This year, from February the 20 th until August 10 August, I will test in the Mediterranean Sea several applications in their latest updates. Navionics Marine HD, Nobeltec TimeZero, Imray charting, etc,… All applications widely discussed on this blog tested live. I will speak broadly late August or early September.
Also planned a new iBook complete guide about the application… shhh, We'll talk later at the Grand Pavois boat show. In the meantime, your servant will hardly be reached until September. Bonnes vacances à tous !
Training week-end onboard the 6 and 7 July 2013 " Navigate with an iPad » à bord de Owl, a classic ketch gaffer 21 meters high, construit en 1909, departure from Agde.
L’équipage (Skipper + marin et hôtesse) s’occupe de la manœuvre, food and cleaning. Le linge de cabine est fourni.
J’étais à bord pour dispenser la formation sur l’utilisation des applications avec iPad : iNavX, Weather4D PRO, AyeTides XL principalement. Au programme : routes preparation, routing optimization, suivi des routes optimisées, raffraichissement du routage, etc,. Un grand moment pour associer les dernières technologies au yachting de grande tradition. Read more …
Already two days past and the dream team was overwhelmed by a huge number of visitors. Que cette photo ne vous trompe pas : it was taken yesterday evening after closing, ouf, un peu de répit !
Un stand agrandi cette année
Au programme des présentations :
Venez nous voir, iPadNav vous fait des prix d’enfer, vous pourrez voir nos iPads barboter dans l’aquarium et nos applications sur le nouvel iPad Mini, un must !
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Dominique Gauthier nous accueille, Olivier Bouyssou (Weather4D) et moi-même, sur son stand H59 iPadNav.fr for super demonstrations of latest news regarding the use of the iPad in navigation.
L’équipe est prête pour l’ouverture
At sea from July, 20 th until August 3 August, I will use a Mediterranean journey for a report on the use of several devices discussed on this blog :
De quoi s’occuper pendant la dizaine de jours de navigation prévue entre Port-Leucate et Dubrovnik. Hoping that our tests will leave us time to enjoy the sea, few planned stops and some fish have liked to bite our hooks.
There will therefore no more post on this blog before… mid- August, voire début septembre. Mais le résultat de mes investigations sera largement développé l’automne prochain.
Et en prime, mais ne dites rien à personne, c’est une rumeur : un test de l’intégration des polaires de vitesse dans la fonction routeur de Weather4D PRO.
Bonnes navigations à tous.