La navigation maritime sous Android
The tome 2 from the Navy weather Introduction – The weather in the Mediterranean, is updated on the Play Store (Google Play Books)
Version 1.1 – Addition of a paragraph on Advanced thunderstorm forecasting data.
Just download the work already bought again to replace the previous one.
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Two years after its launch for the Route du Rhum 2022, the cross-platform routing application dedicated to gaming Virtual Regatta Offshore has been the subject of an essential update in the run-up to the Vendée Globe. It has been available since September 29 th, (¹), to support the all-new options of Virtual Regatta 7.0. Read more …
Episode 2 – Illustrations
Forecasts IFREMER (see Episode 1) available in SailGrib WR are of two kinds :
These files concern areas of the Channel and Atlantic whose coverage and resolutions are significantly different. Read more …
Episode 1 – Description
Since May the 7 th 2024 the latest versions of SailGrib have been enriched with several new weather and ocean models (¹). Among the latter, ultra-high resolution current and wave forecast models from the’Ifremer complete the models Copernicus (formerly called MyOcean) for the Channel and Atlantic coasts. These forecasts are provided with hectometric grids, can be reduced up to 190 meters for some models. But Ifremer, what is ? Read more …
Navigate with a Digital Tablet and a Smartphone has just been published by Sails & Sailboats, available in bookstores and specialist stores, since the Sails shop & Sailboats, on FNAC Books et Amazon. A digital version specific is online at Apple Books Store.
A step-by-step 128 pages to keep up to date with the latest developments and equip yourself wisely today. 19,90 € Read more …
Update 1.7 of the Manual « Introduction to Marine Weather » pour Amazon Kindle.
With the latest update of the SHOM charts portfolio 16 th, 2021, Geogarage announces the removal of 18 facsimile charts from British charts covering, mainly, the south coast of England and Gibraltar. These areas are now only covered by the British Admiralty portfolio. (You are there).
Indeed, SHOM recently announced (¹) the rationalization of its catalog of nautical charts, onwards September 2021, by the deletion of many foreign charts reproduced under historical reciprocity agreements with some foreign hydrographic services. Read more …
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 …
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.
This work replaces the previous one deleted.
[Update 10 th 2021] Update V.1.3 online on Amazon.fr. Video correction and links.
