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    NAVIGATION BRIEFING

    Dec 10, 2020 4 minutes

    Smart phone applications have permeated yachting in ever increasing ways. We now have apps that help with navigation planning, that explain rules, apps that track you and apps that track all other vessels with AIS.

    Weather forecasting apps continue to improve at pace and we can now run an application that can combine six different sophisticated weather models on a device in the palm of your hand. Apps can import satellite pictures, rain radar data and even wind information from the observation station close to your windward mark.

    I’ve been using electronic navigation charts (ENCs) in various ways for 25 years, so is it now time to discard paper charts?

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