In a few days the new application for Virtual Regatta will be released eSail4VR. Developed jointly by Henri Laurent (SailGrib) and Olivier Bouyssou (Weather4D), currently in intensive beta testing, the application will be available for the legendary race : the Route du Rhum. The real revolution is that it works on all platforms ! Read more …
Category : Applications
Urgent ! Iridium GO firmware update!® and the GO app!®
Une nouvelle version du firmware 2.1.22 est maintenant disponible pour l’Iridium GO!®. Cette version comprend une mise à jour pour corriger un problème d’heure et de date incorrectes pour l’appareil Iridium GO!® et l’application GO!®. Ce problème entraîne une heure et une date incorrectes sur l’appareil et l’application, qui cependant n’affecte en rien la fonctionnalité de l’appareil/application. Les appels, les données, les SMS, les SOS et le suivi fonctionnent toujours normalement. Seuls les cas où un message (GPS rapide, suivi, SOS) contient une date/heure, celle-ci sera incorrecte. L’ordre des messages dans l’application Iridium GO!® peut ne pas être respecté, de même que les appels vocaux manqués. La mise à niveau de l’appareil vers la nouvelle version du firmware 2.1.22 résoudra ce problème.Navygatio : SailGrib’s “Cloud” service
The latest update V.6.4 of SailGrib WR brings a major novelty : Navygatio (¹), a web interface which will allow navigation to be recorded on a server as it happens, to add pictures, to share your page with loved ones, to compare the traces, to analyze performance, and many more things to come. A real “ cloud »at the unique service of SailGrib WR users on Android and Weather4D Routage & Navigation users with iOS. Read more …
You said “Medicane” ?
The numerous sailors who crisscross the “Big Blue” have known for ages that, if navigation is relatively easy, meteorology represents a particularly difficult constraint to understand. Indeed, if the coasts are mostly steep and the dangers very localized, if the tides are almost negligible, if currents are only to be taken into account in well-defined areas, the major difficulty comes from capricious weather, difficult to predict, can represent a real danger due to its changing moods, sudden, even brutal. Read more …
Introduction to Marine Weather [2021]
The new tutorial « Introduction to Marine Weather » is available on Amazon Store for e-reader and cross-platform applications Kindle.
Complete revision of the work initially published in 2015, new, clearer and more readable layout in portrait mode, complete revision of the text, updating videos and illustrations.
From basic knowledge to interpreting GRIB files, an educational journey to help you better understand the weather, the one he will do, and master weather-routing and navigation applications, like SailGrib, Weather4D, and many others.
- 130 pages
- 15 videos
- 100 illustrations
This work replaces the previous one deleted.
[Update 10 th 2021] Update V.1.3 online on Amazon.fr. Video correction and links.
SailGrib WR adopts Geogarage maps
Collaboration is progressing between SailGrib et Weather4D. The recent version SailGrib WR 6.0 adds support for platform maps Geogarage including the international catalogs of SHOM and UKHO from around twenty publishers. These “tiled” raster maps are mainly based on digital data from official hydrographic services., or more than 10.000 maps available today, and viewable on their interactive catalog.
Unlike the majority of private providers, Geogarage offers subscriptions by publisher, and not by geographical area (¹). These are renewable annual subscriptions allowing regular updates. The icing on the cake is the pooling of subscriptions between Android and iOS devices : an account created on the Geogarage platform allows you to download subscribed maps to an iPad with Weather4D Routing & Navigation and an Android smartphone with SailGrib WR, or conversely an Android tablet and an iPhone with their respective application, up to five different devices. Read more …
SailGrib VR – Dedicated routing for Virtual Regatta
The brand new SailGrib application is available on the Google Play. SailGrib pour Virtual Regatta is solely dedicated to gaming. It brings the power of SailGrib routing optimized for Virtual Regatta enthusiasts while retaining the ergonomic and popular interface of other SailGrib applications..
By opening the application, once your Virtual Regatta credentials have been entered, you are then instantly connected to your account. By default the application opens on the last connected race. If you have other races in progress, you select them in the side menu (navigation drawer).
Position and track of the boat displayed in real time
Without any manipulation or adjustment, find your position displayed in real time on the planisphere. If a new weather file is available for the game, it will be automatically downloaded when opened. This is the same 1° GFS model that is used in the game. Read more …
Routing : from game to reality
On the second day of racing of this Vendée Globe 2020, we can say that the weather conditions that the skippers will experience on the descent towards the Doldrums will be particularly tough. After leaving in lousy weather, a first not very active cold front passed without incident, the loners will cross a second, much more violent front during the night and morning from Tuesday to Wednesday, for the group going to the West, and in the evening for the group passed between the DST (¹) and la in French.
But these future conditions are very different for Virtual Regatta players and for sailors… Read more …
Android Marine sets sail for the Vendée Globe 2020
Oh yes, everything happens ! In my entire computer-nautical career I had never played any computer game whatsoever., not even the historic Windows card game that cost businesses thousands of idle office hours… but you should never say : Never !
Or donc, here I am registered for Virtual Regatta, one among the most 340.000 players registered at this time, ready to start the Vendée Globe tomorrow at 1:02 p.m.. Like any beginner, I watched a few videos to quickly understand this game, Who, we are all, seems relatively simple for an experienced sailor. But from there to playing in the big leagues, there are still several oceans to cross !
ECMWF weather data soon to be open to public [2th part]
Source : The Parliament Mag par Umberto Modigliani, ECMWF Deputy Director of Forecasts, responsible, with the department director, continuous production of forecasts and relations with users.
Early October, the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (CEPMMT) will take a big step forward by making hundreds of its forecast maps available to everyone free of charge.
These changes are part of a broader European initiative to make public sector data free and open, encourage innovation and support a thriving, data-driven digital economy.
So far, full access to these forecast maps was restricted to national meteorological and hydrological services of ECMWF Member States and Cooperating States, to members of the World Meteorological Organization and commercial customers. Access was subject to a series of personalized licenses and high fees. Read more …