Navigate with a digital tablet

After bursting into our daily life as earthlings, smartphones and digital tablets were not long in coming onto our sailboats.


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TECHNICAL NOTEBOOKS n°1: Digital tablets


After bursting into our daily life as earthlings, smartphones and digital tablets were not long in coming onto our sailboats.
They embark both as autonomous devices and as integral parts of networks bringing together all the electronic instruments on board. Their universe goes beyond simple cartography to include weather, routing, tides or astronomy, as well as the recovery of man overboard, and even the construction of marine knots. Apple's iOS, the "engine" of the iPad and the iPhone, has the most consistent software offer to date. It is therefore in this particular sector of digital tablets that Francis Fustier, trainer in marine computing and author of the French translations of several navigation software for Mac and iOS, is interested here.
This issue of Cahiers techniques de Voiles et Voiliers provides an overview of the available applications, examines the different maritime uses of tablets and describes the conditions for their optimal use. A must-have for anyone who lives – and navigates – with an iPhone in their pocket or an iPad under their arm.