Capt. Greg Thornton has been delivering yachts for more than 10 years. Along the way, he’s encountered virtually every type of electronic navigation equipment, which is why he keeps the Navionics app on a tablet in his gear bag. “You’re jumping on a boat blindly, and rather than having to get a specific map or program, Navionics caters to that diversity,” said Thornton.
Recently, he had to move a 100-foot Swan sailing yacht from Sint Maarten to Rybovich Marina in West Palm Beach, Florida. The radar was the only functioning technology on the vessel. “If I didn’t have Navionics on my tablet, I would have been dealing with old-school navigation, looking at the Ritchie compass and having to plot,” he says.
Thornton, who is the founder of Norseman International, which offers yacht management, operator instruction and delivery services, also uses Garmin’s
