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Testimony : Transquadra and Navigation Mac

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BluestairsAfter Jean Debèze, avid supporter of Navigation Mac, made me the pleasure of a detailed tutorial about installing a multiplexer aboard his sailboat, here's a ticket by Jacques Vermeulen, qui témoigne de façon très didactique de son expérience pendant la récente Transquadra, à bord de « Bluestairs », with the owner and friend Marc Bolla.

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Placed at the Transquadra 2011/2012, nous avons rencontré, lors de la première étape de Méditerranée Barcelone-Porto Santo (Madeira), des problèmes de réception et d’envoi de fichiers GRIB et data via le réseau Iridium. Email was impossible to use with the Iridium Airtime cards we used. Ne nous est restée que la possibilité de téléphoner avec l’Iridium.

Back after this first stage, I decided to deepen the subject and educate myself with Francis Fustier whom I had knowledge, jusqu’alors, que par son blog, really comprehensive. Read more …

I am writing to you from Gibraltar

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Hey yes ! Après ce merveilleux séjour sur l’ïle de La Réunion, me voici embarqué sans transition à bord de « Rafale », un Catana 47 affrêté pour le rallye ARC, un modèle propriétaire spécialement équipé avec mât carbone, GV Mylar à corne, spinnaker, and other I forget . Underway to the Canarias, via Gibraltar, pour prendre le départ à Las Palmas.

Gibraltar

Under way to Gibraltar

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Navigator Training and Support

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apple_devicesTo respond to the request of multiple users of Apple products, I plan for 2011 a Offering support and training services designed for specific boaters users of Apple products and related applications.

Implementation, on board a boat, Apple devices : Mac, iPad , iPhone, is not obvious to everyone, I offer to advise, to help connect with the on-board instruments, put in running order and training in the use of common applications which I am currently testing and translating. These services can be carried out on board boats throughout the French coast, choice of requesting skippers.

This offer is provided as freelance trainer. Interested sailors can contact me using the form " Contact » of my website.

A new "Reading" section

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This blog, All in all, quite technical, seems to me to be cruelly lacking in poetry ! So I decided to bring it to the table., from time to time, A little distraction by sharing with you my favorite "maritime" reads. This may be the source for some of you ideas to spend the long sailing days – that many landowners imagine so boring – and for others long winter evenings spent on shore awaiting the come-back of spring time.

Je n’ambitionne nullement de me poser en critique littéraire. Simplement de faire découvrir à ceux qui ne les connaissent pas déjà les quelques ouvrages, romanesques ou techniques, que j’affectionne particulièrement.

En retour, je suis preneur de toute découverte littéraire, peu ou prou maritime, dont je serais ignorant, il doit y en avoir un paquet !

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Les titres de la rubrique Lecture
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A computer on board, What for ?

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C’est la question qui tue. Tout autant que ma réponse : rien !

Let me explain. In coastal navigation, ça ne sert franchement à rien. L’informatique n’apporte rien à la sécurité, n’apporte guère plus de facilité qu’un GPS classique, ne fait pas gagner de temps. Si on compare le temps nécessaire à reporter le point du GPS sur une carte marine (je ne parle pas de reporter l’estime) au temps perdu devant un écran d’ordinateur à bidouiller tout un tas de fonctions superflues, on constate vite que l’ordinateur à bord est un boulet. Read more …

About alignments and sextant

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This holiday season, during which we happily return for a few days to the traditions, inspires me to rethink the traditions of an activity that is dear to us : navigation.
Not that of our illustrious predecessors, royal navies, discoverers of distant lands, corsairs, pirates or honest merchants, isn't it. I want to talk about the one that has concerned us for more than half a century : yachting. Especially to the attention of our friends who are sailors born in 70-80, who discovered navigation from the years 90, period of the appearance of GPS on board our pleasure boats.
I, who is constantly adding a website and a blog on the intricacies of computing onboard, of all these tools which bring us our position a few meters away, what the weather will be like in eight days, the height of water under the keel, the time at which it will be necessary to tack to take advantage of the favorable wind shift, and how much additional information is available in three mouse clicks, I don’t forget how I learned to sail.

This holiday season, during which we happily return for a few days to the traditions, inspires me to rethink the traditions of an activity that is dear to us : navigation.

Not that of our illustrious predecessors, royal navies, discoverers of distant lands, corsairs, pirates or honest merchants, isn't it. I want to talk about the one that has concerned us for more than half a century : yachting. Especially to the attention of our friends who are sailors born in 1970-80, who discovered navigation from the years 1990, period of the appearance of GPS on board our pleasure boats. Read more …

Welcome to the blog !

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Welcome to the blog Navigation Mac, I invite you initially to have a look on the About page for explanations about the motivations of this blog.

N’hésitez pas à laisser des commentaires et à faire part de vos expériences d’utilisation des matériels Apple sur vos bateaux, cela pourra profiter à tous les navigateurs qui me feront le plaisir de visiter ce blog. Pour des raisons pratiques, les commentaires pour un sujet sont clos après le délai de un mois.