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I have dragged myself into the 21st century and bought an itouch which I am pretty impressed with. I have downloaded the navionics charts which are awesome.
I also have xcweather, google earth,windguru and can access passageweather, chimet et al which are all very handy. I believe there is a bluetooth ap which can connect the itouch to a gps but have not found it yet. Are there any other aps out there that the panel might recommend for sailing ?
 
assuming an itouch is an iphone without the phone? If so I have

Imray rules and signals
Imray day tides
Navionics UK holland as you already said
XC weather

also tom tom is 60 quid but will get you to the boat

and 2 games that irritate and entertain in equal measure:

the moron test
geared
 
Immray tucabo is the same thing. Day tides plus is the paid for version of the free one which I suggested - you can't plan ahead with the free version so worth the few quid for the plus if you want to do that.

Yes there are cheaper than tom tom but I still think it's good for 60 quid and worth the extra to me. And finding the boat is relevant when you want to get back from the cafe via the shortest route after an over indulgence of red or whatever although I admit I can find it from home unaided.:)
 
You get tidal data on the navionics package which will forecast tides at various points on the charts - is there any advantage over the navionics package with imray software ?
An itouch is effectively an iphone without the the phone connection. The itouch doesn't have gps though hence the search for the software to allow bluetooth connection to a gps receiver to get the chartplotter working.
Thank you for the replies
 
In addition to most of the above, I put on Ship Finder, which purports to give live AIS feeds, in a similar way to http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/#. However, the coverage is very poor this side of the pond - far fewer ships than the above website, so rather disappointing. They say they will increase coverage, so I won't throw it away yet, but I could have wasted a whole 3.99 euro.
 
I have Navionics and Imray, both of which are excellent. I also added:

- World Tides, although I tend to use the Navionics inbuilt one mostly
- Sailing Weather
- Wind Meter
- And Alphabet, so I don't mix up me Yankees, Tangos and Oscars :)

I have an iPhone so use the built in gps, very handy and remarkably accurate so far in live tests.
 
My fave apps

Flashlight - sort of a torch
Dimensions - a constantly useful box of tools
iOSMaps - for walks ashore
Harbourmaster - addictive game
Wind Meter - remarkably accurate (woops, won't work on iPod due to lack of microphone)
Windscale - Handy Beaufort scale reference
Sailing Weather - nice weather maps
 
GPS offshore?

Has anyone successfully used the iPhone inbuilt GPS when well offshore? I've struggled to make it work in the North Sea (although admittedly this is from an aircraft cockpit not the boat)
 
Doesn't the "GPS" work by triangulation from the signal from various masts?
I would also be wary of the accuracy of it - I had a colleague give me a demo in Norway and it transpired that, according to the "GPS" we were about 20 yards offshore (we were in fact standing at the bar in the hotel - 100 yds from the beachl)
 
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It is not GPS with satellite fixes, but GPS (Assisted) ie triangulation from masts. In other words, no phone signal, no GPS.

You can get also (works on the iTouch too) GPS facility via the WLAN function with Navizon (free version works ok).

Must try the wind thingy, as there is a mic on the latest iTouch.
 
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