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hanks everyone for being here I'm Jeff

Cote with Pacific yacht systems today

we're going to be talking about boating

apps so there's no installation or

wiring or any type of electrical or

electronic stuff that we normally do on

boats this is mostly driven about with

the advent of technology and all these

smartphones and iPads and devices that

we have around us and what's really out

there and essa' below freezing at in the

back or anywhere and if the sound level

I'm not speaking loud enough which is

generally not a problem let me know so

basically this is kind of an overview of

how we're going to go through the

presentation so these are the different

categories because I mean there's so

many apps about everything what we try

to do is we're going to be talking about

navigation a little bit weather and

tides I'll talk about marine traffic

which is can come through AIS and I'll

explain what that is we'll talk about

control and control what what are things

about safety a little bit about sailing

I know that it's not the majority of us

but there's probably some of you in

there that look at sailing about

anchoring and then also different types

of lifestyle apps you know things that

you can do so that's kind of the

generally the direction of the apps by

the way this presentation is going to be

online tomorrow and posted so send me an

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anybody who wants to actually see the

PDFs of this presentation all right so

basically what are the things to

consider when you're looking at a

navigation application my disclaimer I

want to emphasize and I'm a tech geek

okay I'm an engineer I love technology I

was the first one to buy an iPad I had

an iPhone before everyone else I got the

I watch the first day came out I loved

it but all these are gadgets for me at

the end of day I would not say to anyone

let go the chartplotter on your boat and

bring your iphone and navigate with an

iphone and solely an iphone to somewhere

and not be really good at handling

marine charts now if you're really good

at piloting and your your chart works

amazing sure the iPhone is awesome

but if you're putting everything in the

basket with just an iPhone or an iPad

things are great until they're not going

to work okay

nobody at Apple and I have a lot of my

classmates that work there nobody at

Apple is designing the iPad and thinking

some voter is going to be using it to go

through a pass and if it ever fails

there's fruit and they're going to crash

into the rocks it's a it's a

recreational type of device it's not a

device that someone builds and things

that you're going to put your life into

it so just take it with that grain of

salt it's great to complement but I

would not trust it at all cost

we recommend it a lot with a lot of our

owners to use it as a second helm it's

great as a second helm the other thing

too that you've got a choice about is

going to be able to choose what type of

cartography you want on that app you

want vector or raster charts raster

charts are basically photographs of the

typical CHS charts that we're all

familiar with it's really just an image

it's a picture of that chart it's not

manipulated nothing else they can't

screw it up in the digitization it's

literally just an image that's it vector

charts or where they actually digitized

and literally start doing what's called

layering of the information and all that

information is literally manipulable you

can change whatever you can have the

water purple you can have it pink you

can have the contour lines at 66 33 11

you can have them at whatever you want

you can show the lamb not show the land

you can show contours you can show

sounding some soundings on soundings you

can manipulate the data to however you

want it that's basically a vector charts

there's camps on both sides there's

benefits to both sides

that's the difference between raster and

vector charts the other question you've

got to ask yourself is when you buy an

app especially the newer versions you

don't actually have the chart data on

the app you actually have to go online

even after the app is downloaded because

they're giving you apps for North

America they're not you're not

downloading North America charts on your

phone there's no way it's not going to

happen you've got to choose a section of

the charts that you want download them

because once you're going to be up in

the browns or desolation Sound you

might have downloaded the app but if you

don't have the charts for it you're not

going to be able to use the app ok it's

going to just give you base map base map

means pretty much within a kilometer

you're here and the shore is somewhere

there or there like you can't use that

for navigation and then the other

question you've got to ask yourself is

am I just going to use a charting app or

am I also going to have an app that has

more features in it so we'll talk about

other apps that start bundling in more

than just navigation but start doing

weather tides currents sonar and

different types of apps like that

so this is a screenshot from Navionics

and Navionics have apps that are on an

iPad I mean Android everyone they have

in all devices and you can actually see

it as well and you can see that this

definitely looks different than a raster

chart it's a vector chart this is a

chart that's been digitized for some

people it looks more newer more

technology other people like more the

familiar look of a raster chart ok I'm

going to be dividing the presentation

there's a lot of informations a lot of

apps so normally you know different

settings we do handouts but with the

Boat Show I'd never know how many people

are going to show up so that's why it's

going to be online and you can print it

off the really one that I really like is

the Garmin blue chart Garmin so big that

they actually don't buy charts they make

their own right when you're that big you

do what you want for them it didn't make

sense to give anybody else the money so

they have their own charting in-house

and it's called blue charts some people

swear by it one other thing that I like

about the Garmin blue chart I use it to

offset my Navionics because they're both

independently creating their own vector

charts from the paper charts so it's

kind of a duplication of efforts if they

both agree and they came to the same

conclusion independently most likely the

island that you see in two places on two

different systems is probably their

right but if they missed one and you see

it on the other one that you're

wondering well is the island

there or is it there because honestly

there are errors and that's they also

the caveat with anything where there's

people involved this digitization is

done by someone and that's someone it's

very tedious and they're going to miss

stuff and so there was an article in py

just recently about a vector chart that

didn't have all the right information

I've seen it I've been in places in the

Browns where there's an island bigger

than this room simply not there right

twice the size and it's got height it's

not a shoal it's like trees on it the

whole nine yards and it was not on the

charts so that's the great thing about

when you want to choose apps you might

decide to choose complimentary apps

especially in places where you don't

feel familiar with the waters right I

nav --ax is getting a lot of traction

it's pretty much the Ubik it's almost

the noble tech version of navigation

software for smart devices they're

really I mean it's it's a foot it's

basically a noble tech except for your

iPad that's what it is

but you can see also the price point and

this is probably going to just because

these price points were taking late fall

so the App Store is adjusting their

price point with our dollar but these

were prices they were probably all gone

up now you can see that's the most

expensive app you can buy but you're

buying a lot like noble tech on an iPad

okay notice that it actually support a

is doesn't mean that it's getting a is

without a black box device and I'll talk

about why the benefits of a is would

make sense especially for someone that

doesn't have another chartplotter right

or anything else this is the end-all

be-all a is on your iPad might be a

really good idea going back just quickly

to the Garmin blue chart notice how it

has built-in weather so what that means

is actually Garmin also so big has their

own weather service they don't buy

weather service from a third party they

actually have their own weather service

they're in avionics whether it's part a

big part of the avionics and what you

can do actually for I think it's a token

amount one or two dollars you can add on

a feature where you have unlimited

weather data forever what that means

that weather data is not coming

you know through words in a VHF where

you got to got to figure out where the

Front's are the winds the wind direction

you got to translate that and figure out

what you are they're showing you win

wave win wind direction wave height

through time with barometer lines the

whole line pressure gradients everything

happening right there on top of the

chart so anybody that's into either

going in places where you know there

might be you know Strait of Georgia and

you want to figure out okay are the

where's the swell going to be coming

from right what kind of seas am I going

to be getting in twelve hours six hours

instead of listening to forecasts and

trying to figure out what all that means

you can literally do play it's going to

show you the wind direction wave heights

everything right on your iPad so that

for two dollars one time fee I would

call that a deal all right but you need

obviously the Internet to get that data

I mean it's not uploaded you need to be

able to get that constantly down to get

the latest weather data marine charts

you can see NOAA gives charts away for

free in the States so there's apps that

just take that data and simply put it up

and know what the nor charts are raster

charts so it's a little bit like CHS

with CHS in Canada it doesn't give them

away you still have to buy them that's

why charts and can always cost more

Navionics is probably the ubiquitous app

that it's the first you know really to

come into the market you've most of you

if you're in a boating and you have

friends that's the app they've showed

you like let's be honest the market

penetration on that app is outstanding

they were first to market their price

point has always been very reasonable

and over time they're giving you more

and more feature sets and on top of that

now used to buy when I bought it

initially you only got British Columbia

now it's like you buy North America and

you download the charts you want for

where you're going I mean that's pretty

sweet so you're in here in the summer

and you're going to rent a boat in the

BVI's you can previous oome unless

you're spending huge dollars that the

chartplotter on board is going to be

really bad but if you want a nice

chartplotter on board on a charter boat

in the BVI's you buy the app you

download the charts before you head

there

suddenly you've got the way better

chartplotter then charter companies

going to be offering you so it can be

convenient we did that when we went to

Croatia we sell for two weeks in Croatia

and obviously I expected the

chartplotter to be terrible it was and

we came in we had both the Garmin blue

charts and Navionics and we were using

both just to give us you know a little

bit more comfort in the cruising grounds

because I had never been there nobody

had ever been there that I spoke to so I

was going there just simply with the

charts TZ touch and you see that they've

parted with time zero times zero is from

Peru noble tech bak Peru no BOTS noble

tech so they've partnered up and done an

app newer to the market not as old as I

the one that I was showing you

previously which is I nav X but you

can't go wrong with noble tech noble

Tech is world-class I mean we're working

on a 145 right now and the captain was

absolutely adamant that he absolutely

needed noble take on board for the

Caribbean in North America you know and

so there's really no budgets in those

boats and he swore by noble tech and

he's our like a real like he's a true

Mariner so noble tech has a lot of

credibility in the market it's a great

product and that's an easy way to get

noble tech type of software again on

iPad without having to pay the huge

licensing fees that you'd have to do to

run it on a computer you can see all the

they do 3d charting you've probably seen

their ads it's pretty creative what

they're doing with the charts as well

pretty powerful and then the bottom one

is digital yacht digital yacht is at the

forefront of integration they're the

kind of the whiz kids of everything that

has to do with the integrated boat

they're based out of the UK they've got

amazing product offerings that are

reasonably priced is just they do

they're really pushing the boundaries of

everything working together and you can

see all the different types of

information that they're trying to

aggregate and make available onto your

chartplotter so there'll actually going

to pull in depth speed

all this information that you might have

on your backbone that's NMEA or any may

mm and they're going to take it and send

it over Wi-Fi

to a device so instead of having just

instrument repeaters in your boat you're

suddenly going to have a device that has

everything that's on your boat all kind

of data like wind speed all this other

stuff now is showing up on your iPhone

or on your iPad so it's basically making

your smart device and instrument

repeater multifunction and instrument

repeater but it doesn't stop there you

know that you can start having a is

range bearing it's just tied like it's

basically the end result I mean it's the

all-in-one okay all right so this is

going in a little bit Navionics this is

the look and feel of the Navionics app

I'm not going to talk of everyone like

that but I'm highlighting the look and

feel you can see the different type of

information you can have they've also

now added Navionics whether it was used

to not be there but now with Garmin

Garmin was taking market share from that

because it's kind of nice to have know

whether at the especially within if your

cell range right the no weather without

having to listen to a VHF channel it's

kind of like it's endearing let's be

honest and the other thing too that's

amazing about those apps and I use them

all the time is I get this question from

crew and for my wife all the time how

long is it going to take us to go from

here to there tomorrow that is the most

common question it's what I used to do

my dad when are we when will we be there

how long how long is it going to take

what time do we have to leave all those

questions and before to do that on paper

is extremely time-consuming

you gotta especially if you're north

island or middle island you got passes

to go through right or even in the gulf

islands what time you're going to be at

a pass depending on the boat you have

you might have to be there at slack

what's great about that is you can

literally within like 15 seconds you can

know exactly the distance from A to B

but not by bird flight but by literally

a safe route and so if your passage

planning you can say well we can go

there tomorrow there tomorrow there

tomorrow or there tomorrow 17 miles 22

miles 11 miles 8 miles right and then

they'll tell you because you enter your

boat speed it's going to take us blah

blah blah right

do the math for you and then after the

on top of it you can look at the past as

well if we go there we want to go up to

plus islands from you know desolation

sound you're in preeto we got to go

through a pass are we going to hit the

pass at right time what time do we have

to leave all those things can be done

instead as eventually the helm

because most chart plotters do that you

can just simply do it in your iPad on

the aft deck you know in the cabin

wherever you want to be you could be in

your dinghy doesn't matter and you can

route that and you can do that without

the internet that outer routing

capability is actually built-in once

you've downloaded the charts okay so

that's a big win for passage planning

really liked it and this is definitely

you can also see dust tides all right so

I use it for anchoring all the time yes

I have a tide book that I buy every year

I have one how often do I look at it

never but I have one and I look at tides

on there to just figure out okay what's

the tide you know I've got a sailboat

six foot draft you know am I going to be

swinging with boom boom make sure I'm

all good tides are not gonna be too low

I'm fine and then that's how I make my

decisions okay you see blue chart same

thing some people swear by Garmin right

and they're used to the feel of Garmin

sharp laughter's this would be a way to

get blue charts right so it's consistent

with what you have on your boat other

owners really alike they'll maybe have

are a marine or Simrad or for uno but

they want something else again it would

be good to complement with a different

technology again for those especially if

you're going places where you may be

west coast of Vancouver Island there's

different places buns bees these places

where it's a little sketchy right it's a

little bit nerve-racking it's not clear

navigation it's not like going Malaspina

if you hit land you're there's no rock

in between you know like so this might

be a good to give you a little bit more

comfort that you know the lay of the

land on top of the paper charts that you

have to have on board of course okay all

right TZ touch you can see how the at

the bottom what they're doing firoun is

known with doing with some really

amazing animation or

manipulation of the vector chart data

and also the satellite imagery that they

get from Google Maps and put on top and

you can see a little bit of what it

looks like I mean it it almost becomes

cartoonish almost in some ways so for

some of us that's great for other ones

maybe not so much all these things are

layers you can turn them on or off but

for some of you that have four uno on

board or really like that technology or

fertilis generally very expensive it is

the most expensive and you can't afford

a fruit on your boat but you want to

have the feel of it this would be a good

way to get it at a reasonable price all

right so what are the things that you

like what I was saying about whether

we're going to go through wetter while

you can figure what's the weather

looking forward right you can get win

alerts on your phone right which is nice

and you can get also marine weather as a

sailor I use when especially we do a lot

of crossings or boats in secret cove so

as soon as we were there we're either

going up Malaspina or across the Liske t

and so we're always going it's not

really protected so I always have to be

looking at the wind when is it going to

be today tomorrow the day after tomorrow

because if we come back and it's blowing

southeasterly 35 on the south point of

Texas ADA it's not going to be pleasant

so this would be ways for you to start

figuring out what are you going to do

this weekend what am i doing tomorrow

should I be here or should I not do I

stay here do I leave and these are all

apps that you can use for getting

weather data now remember all of this is

dependent on obviously a weather

internet connection so either you have

need a hot spot on your boat with

another phone right but you need some

way to get to the internet because that

information has to be pulled from the

Internet one thing I really like I don't

know if you guys are familiar with this

but Noah world radar is pretty cool

because radar actually you can use wadar

to actually tell where the rain is and

so you'll never hear a weather forecast

for what's telling you when south

point of winter covin chatter no there's

not enough people living on Saturn uh

for the radio would ever tell you what

the weather and Saturn is there's 100

people there in the winter but it's a

nice place to be because it's got the

lowest amount of rain in all of

southwest British Columbia so you could

be someplace and you look at radar and

like look at this there's not a single

cloud on top of sand Turner right now

all right why don't we leave and go to

winter Cove or Timbo and cabbage right

we're go there it's not raining I'm

tired of the rain I'm north island you

might be I don't know

Wallace Island or you're a telegraph

cove and it's raining there and you're

like because you know the weather

changes dramatically here within a short

distance and nothing gets stuck there it

just always flies you know so you might

be looking at that or you might be

sometimes we're south and we're like oh

why don't we go to Tribune Bay we want

to go to the beach there oh well yeah

look at the weather it looks really

clear there it's fine right and so you

can actually tell that figuring out

where you've got rain anywhere at any

given time same thing if you've got a

really fast boat or a tender this would

be a way to go get some sunshine if

you're stuck in desolation Sound and you

want to go get some Sun this might be a

way to get yourself somewhere pretty

quickly

tides now tides is where you don't

actually need the Internet tides is a

weird thing it's a 20-year cycle it's

predictable so you can actually pretty

much download the tide data and they'll

be able to tell you what the tides are

going to be you know in a three years

from now based on it's just repetitive

all right a is so what is a is a is

stands for automatic identification

system and it's basically a pro call for

data transfer or data sharing of boat

information over VHF frequencies what

does that mean that means that vessels

by law type a or grading are actually

transmitting a lot of information over

the air not be a internet no cell

connection no Wi-Fi over-the-air they're

transmitting who they are where they're

going their current speed their

current course on ground their length or

with everything about the boat like

probably 20 different values and they're

transmitting that like every like two

seconds or something all the time that's

being transmitted over the air if you're

a boater and you have a Class B receiver

only you can receive that information

and you can show that up on the radio

and the device on a chart plotter and

you can actually see those targets on

your chart plotter now there are apps

that show this information but this is

why I'm taking a few seconds or minutes

to give you a caveat because remember

your iPhone is not getting this

information from over the air there's no

VHF and Tess sounds silly but I have to

say it there's no VHF antenna on your

iPhone or your iPad the information is

being received somewhere on a land base

station taken from that land base

station sent out to a third party then

your app goes and gets it from that

third party and shows it on your iPhone

so there's a delay okay and there could

be a longer delay than you would think

it's not always could be in real time

but sometime it might not do because at

the end of the day there's a lot of

different pieces of the puzzle so if

you're looking at an AIS app on your

phone it's cool it's nice oh look John

and Joann or up in Montague and they've

arrived Oh we'll see them there this

weekend yeah we should be going oh look

they're not here now yeah I guess they

went to Rove an outstation on Salt

Spring we won't see them that's nice but

to use an AIS app on your phone to try

to avoid collision avoidance with a

freighter bearing down on you and the

southern point of herald straight and

you're using that you're like no honey

we're really fine it says that it's not

here

yeah you see it really close but the app

says it's like a mile over would be a

showstopper okay so really really

important to use a is on your phone as a

kind of a gadget okay like I have

clients that do it for example you can

see this law both in Cole Harbour that

are actually

showing their location and I have a lot

of my clients that you know they're on

the road and they just want to know

where their boat is it's part of like

you know we all love our boats for the

most part you know they're in South

America they're working on a project and

they just they look on their phone oh

yeah my boat's still in coal harbour you

know it's like a pulse right it's like a

heartbeat that's what it is right now

they're not exceeding this on their

phone to navigate to make decisions am I

going to go left or right the tugs

bearing down on me no that's not what

you're doing you're doing it for oh look

at this big boat going down the Fraser

River I wonder what it is

oh look its MV this and this coming from

Shanghai going to this port that's the

kind of information or a mega yacht they

might go on silence but maybe not right

and then you can see oh look these boats

are coming down and the other thing you

can use it for is yeah probably that

would be their uses that you would do

with your iPhone in real life you can

use a is for navigation because it's not

like radar radar you can only see what

you see right I mean it can go through a

mountain but with AIS I can light up a

is for example at captain's Cove and I'm

going to see ships in Burrard Inlet I

light it up at my marina and secret cove

and I'm going to see the ferry on the

north on power/power Riverside there's

no way that anything can see anything

from secret cove to powell river it's

impossible but there's a ferry there and

i'll actually see it on my char bloggers

so it's over the air right so it'll go

on top of mountain I mean it doesn't go

endless distances but you light up a

chart plotter in again captain's Cove

and you can see traffic on the southern

point of Saturn so it gives you an idea

of the reach and so what's great about

is you can see traffic on a pass before

you get to a pass and if you see let's

say for example you go north island you

got a lot of passes that are pretty

tight and you sometimes there's convoys

of West Sports 1 tents right I mean

there's bigger boats as you get up and

you're like am I going to be able to

squeeze through or dawns Narrows right

you're going through dogs and there

might be a few commercial traffic

waiting on the other side and before you

get to it you can see ok look at that

there's like 4 tugs waiting in line on

the other side and they're going to tell

you their length and what their

doing so it gives you a little bit of

information to passage plan a little bit

better okay so these are the different

apps that you have ship finder is a big

one again that's probably the most

popular one if a friend's ever shown you

a boat it's probably the one he's shown

you the boat way and then boat beacon

but again I it's it's more like a boat

watch yeah go ahead correct no no that's

right that's a good point remember this

is only other boats that are

transmitting their information there's

two types of transmitters there's Class

A they have two so not an option

it's non-negotiable by law they have to

transmit so there's the real bones

basically and there's class B's these

are people that are more pleasure boats

right very any of them it could be also

smaller work boats that choose to I

guess transmit their location and their

information to other boats it's gaining

popularity before years ago I used to

only see boats that would be Class A

only and if everyone else would just get

Class B receivers but now there's an

uptake in Class B transmitters

especially boats that are bigger or

faster

you know boats that they might be going

okay well you know what I've got friends

I want them to know where we are and you

have a silent button too you can say

well this weekend I'm going incognito

you shut it off and you don't see it so

there's options that you can do but it

is gaining popularity there's more and

more boats taking on Class B receiver

transmitters and transmitting their

information to other vessels so they

everyone sees each other okay the other

thing it does also I just want to say is

over time what it does is it's like with

marpa you know in marpa with radar you

have to actually acquire targets to see

if you're on a collision course if

you've got a is on board and well you

don't even have to have a gaius if

you've got an AIS Class B receiver your

char plotter will actually if it's

connected to an AIS receiver will

actually calculate if this freighter

bearing down on you coming at 24 knots

because that's what they're doing when

they're rounding you know Saturno

on the southern point and you're in the

middle of the strait to Georgia you're

looking you're like Oh

we're fine now that things bearing down

at 20 to 24 knots right like it's a

speed boat right and your thing out

we're fine you want to know should I

slow down or am I going to miss it right

you can there's different ways you can

do it if you have piloting skills to

know if you're on a collision course I'm

not going to tell you that because it's

not my place but there's ways of

figuring that out just with there's ways

but if you want to have better security

what you can do is you can look at a is

data and a is data is actually going to

look at your course on ground your speed

on ground their course on ground speed

on ground assuming everything stays

constant are you on a collision course

and they'll alarm on that collision

course say I want a three nautical mile

warning on a collision course you

wouldn't turn that on in the river

because you'd be on a collision course

with every single boat every minute

right but you've got a river that when

you disable it you got to re-enable it

when you get to San hands and you're

doing a crossing - for example active

pass right all right so control what

does control mean control means what the

manufacturers have been doing and we're

seeing a lot of traction on this is

manufacturers have been creating

obviously char plotters which are now

called MFDs multifunctional displays

which means it's a device that does

anything it's got radar you know chards

sounder all this everything years ago

this is like for Ray Marine came out

with an app that you could actually view

what was on the chart plotter so it was

kind of a repeater this big deal by the

way is the e7 it was like unbelievable

so suddenly as an owner you could have

one chart plot or somewhere and if you

just want a repeater station just

repeater that you can't engage or do

anything with you could literally see

everything that's happening on the e7 on

your iPad which is kind of neat so if

your budget you know doesn't allow you

to have two char plotters lower/upper

how you can have an upper helm char

plotter and then an iPad a little helm

right that you're normally not at the

lower hem and leave it there and you can

see whatever's there is up there

so not bad it's well it was free so it's

you know no-brainer if you had an iPad

over time what they've done is they've

said okay not only are you able to

repeat information

but you can physically control the other

device remotely meaning you can turn on

the radar turn it off you can look at

the radar page just one second look at

the sounder page you can move your boat

you can not move the boot but move the

screen pan away look at another area

zoom in zoom out you can do anything you

want like if you were at the chart

plotter or MMD so what's happening is

owners that used to be on the fence or

bringing a chart plotter I've got owners

and say Jeff I'm at the flybridge

ninety-five percent of time but

sometimes I go down below before I was

like I don't feel like buying a second

chart plotter for the lower helm when

I'm there ninety five it's another three

four five thousand it hurts mm like what

can I do or for those that don't really

have equal use of both Elms they might

decide well I'm gonna save some money I

mean we can't do all we want and they

might say well I'll put it up at the

upper helm which is where I am all the

time I'll get an iPad and I'll use it as

a repeater station control station at

the lower helm and if I'm ever down

there it's either that or nothing all

right so that's how they look at it you

have a question yeah absolutely built-in

Wi-Fi within the display so you don't

even need to create your own network so

there's a Wi-Fi that's actually within

the device and it sends that signal out

and this but you got to remember to like

I have this of course I have this I have

this on my boat but it's not always I

sometimes lose the wife kind of

connection right a boat has tons of RF

tons of RF I sometimes lose the

connection but you see on my boat it's a

gimmick right it's cool yeah it's fun

but if I lose it the screen freezes

something happens I'm not saying I'm

down at the lower helm and it's going to

take me 30 seconds to go to the upper

helm because the stairs are steep it's

flying seas I don't know where I'm going

and I'm down here and I was putting all

my trust into this iPad and now I lost a

Wi-Fi signal and it froze and I'm really

in trouble 99.9% of the time won't

matter but you know those places we know

those places where sometimes it's not

the place to

lose a hand right and so that's where

again through Murphy's Law you know it

is it always seems to be happening when

you need it where you've got to make a

decision of how badly do you need that

second helm and if it's more kind of a

nice-to-have than a control station and

those apps and the realities they're

free so if you buy a new Raymarine

system or Garmin system you'll actually

have that you just download the app and

depend if some sharp loggers have Wi-Fi

built in some other ones it's a module

because it's an add-on garment on their

top-end it's a it's built in lower end

it's a little module you put in for a

hundred bucks then you just simply buy

you don't buy the app you download the

app and suddenly you're controlling

everything on that sharp water you could

be anywhere you could be on your back

deck you could be in your cabin now for

navigation it's not that practical I

think from a safety perspective but at

night winds are hauling you're at an

anchor it's sketchy right it's really

starting to be sketchy

suddenly it's was calm day it's blowing

thirty five Willie Wallach walk when

when you know boats are dragging or you

want to be in the cockpit in the wind in

the rain with everything going or what

you do is you turn that on you have

radar overlay on a chart plotter you're

in your salon and you're seeing your

boat swinging an anchor suddenly now

you're seeing literally all the other

boats in the bay because you've got

radar overlay you're seeing if they're

dragging on you like yeah he's still

there yeah she's still there oh yeah

they're still there good right you're

swinging you're swinging you're painting

the bottom right you're like yeah I'm

still in the same arc I'm not constantly

going like this which would mean you're

dragging all those things are nice and

you're doing that without actually being

at the helm when it's cold raining

sideways and there's a storm you're

doing this inside the boat and you've

got full access your chartplotter

without being outside so these are all

the different apps you can see like I

mean all the companies have them right

Garmin marathon is another one Laurens

Cimarron ray control for runo frou-frou

first watches is also it allows control

of a Wi-Fi radar they were the first to

make that I didn't put B and G in there

but BMG has one too for you guys that

have sail boaters sailboats if you

the bng system they do a two-for new

first watch was the first to do a Wi-Fi

radar so I put one on on a boat last

year Klein didn't want to display wanted

a low-cost radar for the rare times in

July and August that they get caught in

the fog for him and never happened it

happened once he got scared he's like

okay I'll put radar but I want to be

really low-cost so we ended up putting a

Wi-Fi radar onboard so there's

absolutely no display other than power

cables going to that radar and the radar

is shown on an iPad only there's no

option for anything else so it's not for

everyone but for him it was a low cost

option to get a radar again a trade-off

okay the next thing I'm going to talk

about is I guess safety apps there's all

these different things I remember when

we did Vancouver Island years ago we

went around Vancouver Island we had all

these different boats on you know as

first aids first aid for this first aid

for that now what they're doing is you

can download a bunch of first aid apps

right onboard so instead of having these

thick books you know maybe you know

space is limited or you just simply

don't feel like having a library onboard

like we do you can start buying these

different apps you've got even one like

I would you know maybe I would some

people love their pets you know some

people don't you want an app for what

happens if your dog gets sick when

you're in the middle of nowhere there's

an app for that there's apps for

everything I mean it's it's just

absolutely unbelievable the really nice

one is that I'd like to highlight is the

RCM sar1

I think that's really cool and they do

good work for our waters right all

volunteer-based first sailors there's

different apps in terms of sailing rules

regatta you can see that's pretty giving

you a sense of you know what's the time

to tack right to get to your destination

you want to go to a and you're the

wind's coming from B boom how you sure

you get there how long should your tax

be this would help so there's different

ways you can see now this is maybe not

so much just for sailors but interesting

grip files I'm not sure it is anyone

ever heard the word grip files here

before all right well grip files

are actually what the weather

forecasters use this data this is

actually the the pressure gradient

charts that you see they're actually

using that's what a grip file is okay so

weather forecasters or not weather

forecast weather forecasters and also I

guess route planners right for people

that go ocean voyages are actually using

grip files and I have clients that do

for example Vick now II they're going to

have SS V on board and they're one of

the main reasons they're going to have

an SS be on board is so that they can

have a modem and that modem is going to

be used to download grip files with the

grip files you can actually see the

pressure gradient where you are because

you're downloading for their area and

you actually see the contours lines and

from there you can see the fronts you'll

see all the information that is used to

figure out what's happening and they're

going to use that information to figure

out because they certainly don't go from

A to B in a straight line all right

that's not how they win right so they're

going to be using different winds they

might go way more south they might be in

there's all these it's complicated and

so the people that figure out how to go

from A to B efficiently use grip files

and grip files if you're curious is the

information that actually weather

forecasting is based out of so if you're

into the wool weather thing this would

be basically the elemental knowledge you

need to have or information you need to

add to actually create those forecasts

and to figure out what's going to happen

with the weather star walk is pretty

cool let me let's be honest you know

we've probably seen those apps that you

can look in the sky and they know the

orientation and you'll know all the

constellation that's pretty awesome it's

like having a dad that knows all things

and there's no BS you know what's that

all right anchor watching Melissa the

office really loves drag queen she

thinks it's hilarious what does that

mean basically means that when you

actually anchor and you enable these

apps they're going to figure out a I

guess a diameter from the place that you

told them that the anchor held bottom

right now this is a caveat you can hear

from the tone that I'm trying to use

here the assumption is the moment you

say go and you put out your diam your

distance from where you dropped that

that's where the anchor held right so

you're going to possibly have false

positives with these apps because the

circle that you think you're going to

rotate in your anchor might have not

held the moment you dropped it it might

not have held only five feet as your

dragged it might a dragged 60 feet

before it started holding and now your

circle of a hundred feet isn't where you

thought it was it's here so you could

easily get yourself out of that circle

when it thought that you were here and

you were doing a circle right under

tension under wind so just be prepared

that the apps will sometimes give you

false indication that you're dragging

not because you're dragging but because

it actually didn't know exactly where

the center of where your boat is right

it's not that easy to know where your

anchor is holding the bottom and to know

that exactly like if there was an app

that could tell you yeah your GPS anchor

is that these coordinates that'd be

perfect you know the dream right but

unfortunately it's in the water and

there's no GPS sensor that can be

reading in 60 feet of water and then

transmitting that information to

something else to tell you that it's

changing its location so it's an

approximation and it's another tool now

other thing to remember is that while

you're doing that the GPS sensor on your

phone which every phone has a GPS sensor

and iPads with cellular connectivity

have a GPS sensor built in if you leave

them on all night and you can't close

the phone they're going to be drawing a

lot more power

and so what you need to do is you need

to plug them into a USB port so that the

next morning your phone is still powered

up and that's also the issue with all of

this and I didn't even make mention of

it it's easy to use an iPad and an

iPhone when the water is perfectly klom

those blissful days that you go across

the Strait of Georgia and it's calm you

can foot water-ski across and the only

thing you see is your wake of course

everything is awesome those that you

probably don't even need anything those

days

imagine yourself if you only have that

app and it's like a six eight foot

swells beam sees right and the winds

building and your iPad last night was

not plugged in right now you're using it

a lot it's flying around in the cockpit

you can barely hold on to the helm right

that's the nice thing about having so if

you're really committed to an iPad get a

ram mount get something that can be

physically you put your iPad in there

and it's not going to move in the worst

of conditions make sure there's a port

there to plug it in right if you're

going to put a lot of your eggs into

this navigation stuff I'd suggest having

close USB you know sock 12 volt

cigarette lighters so you can plug it in

so that it can stay powered right as

you're using it your crossing was

supposed to take three hours because you

were supposed to go 20 knots

now the crossing is taking you you're

going only 8 knots you had delays

there's fog now you're going for there

still sees you know the worst case

scenario that happens rarely but does

happen you got to ask yourself like when

things are really going to go bad am I

set to be able to handle them ok

as we go in right now we're talking

about different types of lifestyle apps

and what we're trying to say is there's

a lot of things like for example on my

boat sailor you know I don't I was

trying to do better at making knots

these are different types of apps for

that there's another one too that's

really interesting for people that don't

know this this is really big deal and

I'm probably one of the coolest things

that is happening in the marine world is

called active

so you're asking what is that active

captain is like Wikipedia for boaters it

means it's a community of voters that

are sharing about their environment

various things about their local

cruising knowledge to one another and

what it means is it's not the Word of

God but it's certainly not to be

discounted meaning all these and most

people most voters you would say as a

subset are a pretty good bunch of people

you see the way we share at marinas at

docks at Anchorage is about one another

about local knowledge active captain is

a way to capture that information so

that your network isn't just verbally

with your close circle it's literally

tens and tens and tens of thousands of

people documenting that information so

it can be seen by anybody else and you

can see it for free online okay so

they'll tell you well by the way this

reef isn't here it's there the marker

that's on the chart isn't there anymore

it's blown away it's gone there's no

more marker and then and the government

hasn't replaced it so all those things

are things that are actually viewable on

active captain Garmin for example is

actually adding it as a layer within

their blue charts so you can actually

have blue charts and you say I want to

have an active captain layer on top so

you're like take it off put it on and so

then it's going to show you information

by your peers right so it can be a handy

again for going in places that aren't

places that are super familiar and that

would be handy to do okay the other

thing too in there is TeamViewer we use

that I use that with people at work your

ability to log into your computer

remotely you can have a team of your app

on your iPad and you can log into your

computer at work and if you for example

we use QuickBooks in our business I can

go in with a team of your app and I can

look at lock into my computer at the

office and I can go into QuickBooks I

can generate reports it's like being at

my computer but I'm on an iPad on my

boat so certain apps don't come with you

on an iPad there's certain apps that

need a server they need to be on the

office whatever those are

you would have the ability of actually

seeing files doing whatever how it's

literally like being it's exactly a

little bit like the control app that was

talking about it's a full control of

your computer remotely draw box really

popular files anywhere people do yoga on

boats I've seen it I wish I was that

good workouts

I mean it's endless and this is just a

sample we started it with 200 apps all

right well thank you everyone and if

anyone has questions I'll be at the back

of the room okay thank you