Boatie
Iphone
About
Boatie is a handy source of information for all who enjoy recreational boating in UK coastal waters - whether sailing or motoring, yacht or dinghy.
Its 5 sections are:
Navigation: displays your current GPS position, speed-over-ground, course-over-ground as well as distance and heading to user-configurable waypoints. Waypoints can be stored in folders and ordered. A built-in compass also shows the direction to the current waypoint.
Weather: shows you current UK inshore weather forecast, shipping forecase or synoptic charts for NW Europe.
Tides: gives 7 day tide tables for over 700 primary and secondary ports from UK, Ireland and the Channel Islands. The innovative tidal hour clock shows you which tidal hour it is, or the time of tidal hours when using tidal stream atlases. Also shows moonphase and calculated sunrise and sunset times, and moonrise and moonset times.
Titdal streams: an interactive tidal stream atlas for the next 7 days. So far, this is for the Solent and Surroundings only.
Reference: a growing and useful set of information easily to hand whether you're out on the water or doing your theory course. It currently includes:
- Day shapes
- Navigation lights
- Sound signals
- Beaufort scale
- Forecast terminology
- 5 year lunar calendar
- Signal Flags
- Phonetic alphabet
- VHF Channels
- IALA A Buoyage
So, next time you are meeting your crew in the pub or planning your weekend on your boat, take Boatie to have the key information with you on your iPhone.