Imray have published a new pilot book by Susan and Carlos, covering the West Country.
Chart Navigator is now available on the App Store. A series of apps based on Imray award winning cartography, covering the North Sea, English Channel, West UK and Ireland, Atlantic France, Spain and Portugal, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. A free app lets you sample the functionality with passage charts for the channel. Routes, waypoints, distances, aerial photographs, gps and more.
New Manual for the Tides Planner app. See the tides page or get with this link.
Tides User Manual
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Professional photographer Julian Calverley uses Tides Planner to time the best moment for photographs at the seaside. ‘… I’m an advertising photographer and use the tides app for achieving tide crucial shots like the one below…’
See more of his stunning photographs at www.juliancalverley.com.
Welcome to our site and our iPhone products, which we have started to release to the App Store. In partnership with Imray, the leading marine publisher, we will be launching a series of apps in the coming months. Reference marine content, learning materials, tides, charts and more.
We work hard to make our applications accurate and easy to use but it is possible something may have escaped our notice.
We appreciate your comments and feedback.
Thanks for your visit.
Aircraft pilot Raoul flies the link to Ascension Island and has big plans.
‘Whenever I can I try to take a boat out fishing [Ascension]… about to
purchase a motorsailer for which we have great plans when I retire from Flying… So your Tides App is essential around the Globe’.
The app is out on the app store, from now on a single app called Tides Planner. The app is free to start and, under Tools>App extensions, you add years and country specific hydrographic licences. Immediately you can add 2012 and 2013, plus licences for UK, France, Holland and Belgium. US, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Japan and other countries do not need licences.
The app includes improved tides predictions for European ports, based on our own new constituent analysis engine. More countries will be added in future updates.
Tides Planner 10 (2010/11) and Tides Planner 11 (2011/12) have been updated with all the new features. The hydrographic licence of Tides Planner 10 expires at the end of Dec 2010, when you should update to the new Tides Planner.
Rob from Rotterdam uses the tides app to plan work when moving marine equipment: “I am a towmaster ( Rigmover), this means a sort of pilot for drilling rigs, jackups. We use all kind of means to get information about the tide and current. I like Tides Planner because it is fast and very portable. Even when I walk on deck it is easy to check the current without a pc, totally offline.”
The top 500 App List from the Sunday Times features Marine Tides Planner 11.
Thank you to the reviewers and all our users.
John in France is an enterprising Tides Planner user. He is disabled but likes to enjoy the beach and needs to know the times to gain access and leave.
“J’ai un fauteuil qui peut rouler sur le sable, donc je peux faire des ballades le long de la mer…
Cependant je ne peux remonter sur la terre ferme que à certains endroits, donc je dois être vigilant par rapport aux horaires des marées…”
Our tides user John takes part in the fantastic charity Challenge Wales, dedicated to providing young people aged between 12 and 25 years old a chance to develop their self-esteem and life-skills of team working and communication through the experience of sailing.
See www.challengewales.org .
The Tides app now supports the iPad. The app is universal, running in both iPhone and iPad with only one purchase.
We have also added some improvements:
- Tidal streams/currents (Europe) show strength in color.
- The minimum depth indicator moves with the scale automatically. Use this feature to assess depth for different charted depths.
- Shortcut to favourites from front screen.
Tidal streams/currents are available in Tides Planner. Thank you for all your feedback on our beta version. Tidal stream predictions are based on the hourly based system which is the standard of the IHO and used on charts. The geographical range covers Ireland, the UK, Belgium, Holland and part of German and Danish waters.
Make a basic plan with tide heights and currents, both of which can be emailed from the app.
Our iPhone App Marine Chart Symbols is out in the App Store.
- Comprehensive coverage: more than 800 symbols and abbreviations.
- IHO standard followed by all national hydrographic offices including UKHO, SHOM, NOAA, CHS, INM, Imray and more.
- Full content tree, organised for ease of use.
- Index and grouped index for all entries.
- Search facility.
- Sample chart with visual popups for commonly used symbols.
- Favourites: archive your best symbols.
- Multi-language within the app (English/French – more languages in future updates).
Tides Planner user Howard plans his birdwatching trips in Scotland using the app. “I use Tides Planner for birdwatching. High tide concentrates the flocks and makes it easier to get close to them…he best thing about Tides Planner from my viewpoint is that I can find tidal information for up to 12 months ahead.”
Happy birdwatching.
