A new Expert Guide from Voiles editions & Sailboats

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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.

  1. Tablets and smartphones : choose your device and the essential accessories on board carefully.
  2. Navigation applications : review and detailed description according to your types of navigation, for the day, coastal, or offshore.
  3. Integration from mobile devices to on-board instruments : understand and implement.

A step-by-step 128 pages to keep up to date with the latest developments and equip yourself wisely today. 19,90 € Read more …

eSail4VR for Virtual Regatta is available on all four stores

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Cross-platform app eSail4VR dedicated to routing for Virtual Regatta, I wrote about a few days ago (¹), is available for download from online stores Mac App Store (macOS), App Store (iOS/iPadOS), Google Play, Windows Store (soon activated). Just in time for the Route du Rhum !

To find out everything in one click about this revolutionary application, it's on its website to add to your favorites. The application also has its FaceBook page, and its Users FaceBook Group. Read more …

Iridium Certus 100, a step towards yachting ?

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Since the operational commissioning of the constellation Iridium NEXT (¹), the Iridium company has started offering its new range of services called “ Certus® ". These services rely on the significantly increased technological capabilities of new satellites, which allowed, among other things, for Iridium to be approved as a second satellite communications provider for the GMDSS maritime security service (²), of which the competitor Inmarsat had held the monopoly since 1979.

Certus®, besides showing that American businessmen are also literate (³), is a range available in six bandwiths levels starting from 22 Kb/s up to 704 Kb/s, and up to 1408 Kb/s in the near future. Read more …

Urgent ! Iridium GO firmware update!® and the GO app!®

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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.

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SHOM removes facsimiles from UK charts

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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 …

Navygatio : SailGrib’s “Cloud” service

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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” ?

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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]

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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.