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I have just got a Kindle 3G and think it is great. I plan to cruise over the summer down to La Rochelle and back and am looking for online forecasts that work well on the Kindle's primative browser.I have the inshore and shipping forecasts from off these forums and have also loaded the mobile versions of Hotmail and Gmail that work much better than the full versions. Has anyone some suggestions for good wind forecasts especially looking at the French coast?
 
passageweather.com works fine for me. You obviously do not get the colours but the barbs on the tails are better anyway.

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Thanks

Frank,

Many thanks for your reply to op - the advantage of a forum, one answer available to all.

John G
 
franksingleton said:
I assume that you have the links at

http://weather.mailasail.com/Franks-Weather/Southwest-European-Marine-Weather-Forecast-Texts for texts of CROSS VHF forecasts

For a convenient set of forecast charts try

http://weather.mailasail.com/Franks-Weather/Latest-Uk-Forecast-Charts-5-Days-Reduced-Size for the latest UK prognoses

and

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-...=-&VAR=uv10&HH=0&ARCHIV=0&ZOOM=0&PERIOD=&WMO=

For wind vectors from the UK Nprth Atlantic European meso-scale model.
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Thanks very much! That was very helpful.
 
A bit off topic but I found my Kindle had a cracked screen on Thursday evening. Went onto the web site and put my phone number in to the box and pressed enter and I kid yu not the phone rang within 10 seconds and I was speaking to a very helpfull Scandinavian guy within a minute. 5 minutes later he says that a replacement will be delivered on Saturday morning and it was. About 36 hours turnaround with the call being made at 20:00 or so and the replacement here shortly after 08:00 on saturday. Excellent service for what is an excellent bit of kit.
 
agurney said:
I created this page for mine - http://agurney.com/kindle/charts.htm
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Thanks for your links which are clearly designed for the Kindle. I find that Frank's are better on a mobile phone.

Do you have a wind chart also optimised for the Kindle. I haven't found one yet that is easy to read and load. I am more interested in the French coast but meteo france keeps changing the url and says "forbidden page", anyway it is barely legible.
 
TonyS said:
I have just got a Kindle 3G and think it is great. I plan to cruise over the summer down to La Rochelle and back and am looking for online forecasts that work well on the Kindle's primative browser.I have the inshore and shipping forecasts from off these forums and have also loaded the mobile versions of Hotmail and Gmail that work much better than the full versions. Has anyone some suggestions for good wind forecasts especially looking at the French coast?
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Visit Wind Guru

http://www.windguru.cz/int/index.php?sc=275792

and home in on the location you want.
 
franksingleton said:
Tony

Ref my earlier suggestions for wind vectors, it might have been more helpful to say - Go to weatheronline.co.uk, look for Expert Maps and select Wind. More practical using a touch screen.
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Frank, Thanks for that. I have now loaded it and the barbs can be seen. You just have to type in the address as far as expertcharts and then direct it to wind and France and bookmark it. What it really needs is someone to program just the chart and especially without the annoying ads, which take several seconds each to load. Couldn't you get someone to do a Kindle page for you?

The Kindle is a bit of a pain in having to type everthing in, as there is no possibility to paste an address from an e-mail - unless I have missed something!
 
I find xcweather works relatively well, so long as you are viewing a particular forecast rather than the big map.

Bookmarks generally save a lot of typing!
 
rhumlady said:
A bit off topic but I found my Kindle had a cracked screen on Thursday evening. Went onto the web site and put my phone number in to the box and pressed enter and I kid yu not the phone rang within 10 seconds and I was speaking to a very helpfull Scandinavian guy within a minute. 5 minutes later he says that a replacement will be delivered on Saturday morning and it was. About 36 hours turnaround with the call being made at 20:00 or so and the replacement here shortly after 08:00 on saturday. Excellent service for what is an excellent bit of kit.
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Ditto - had the same exceptional service when a small hairline crack appeared on the unit. Delivered the next day with details for returning the old one.Perfect service. They clearly do not want us to stop ordering books!
 
JohnDWillimann said:
Here are a few I've found:
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Fine, as long as you recognise that most free services are taken directly from the GFS. None of these have any human interpretation. I always suggest that objectively derived short period forecasts, such as these, should always be used together with and not instead of forecasts broadcast under the GMDSS.

The latter are generally available online see my pages at


http://weather.mailasail.com/Franks-Weather/Northwest-European-Marine-Weather-Forecast-Texts for NW Europe

http://weather.mailasail.com/Franks-Weather/Southwest-European-Marine-Weather-Forecast-Texts for SW Europe

http://weather.mailasail.com/Franks-Weather/Mediterranean-Marine-Weather-Forecast-Textss for the Mediterranean

Obviously, specific forecasts can be book marked or the whole page.
 
TonyS said:
I have just got a Kindle 3G ... and am looking for online forecasts that work well on the Kindle's primative browser.
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In case you are not aware, the 3G connection can only be used to access Amazon or to receive email for which you will be charged. You will need a wifi connection to use the web browser for any other sites or to receive email free of charge.

EDIT: It has been pointed out in subsequent postings that I am incorrect about the browser limitation. It appears that the browser will work using the 3G connection for any sites.
 
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Dave_Seager said:
In case you are not aware, the 3G connection can only be used to access Amazon or to receive email for which you will be charged. You will need a wifi connection to use the web browser for any other sites or to receive email free of charge.
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Since when? I've accessed Hotmail, Xcweather, YBW, facebook, and many other websites and as far as I am aware there is no charge.
 
Dave_Seager said:
In case you are not aware, the 3G connection can only be used to access Amazon or to receive email for which you will be charged.
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No, you're wrong. I download news reports, weather forecasts (French and English), tidal information, Gutenberg free books etc without any problem and free of charge. I use it in the UK, France and Belgium. I have dozens of books on it and paid for none of them. Also PDF documents.
 
Dave_Seager said:
In case you are not aware, the 3G connection can only be used to access Amazon or to receive email for which you will be charged. You will need a wifi connection to use the web browser for any other sites or to receive email free of charge.
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Not correct - not on mine anyway
 
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