Best Boating Apps for a Vancouver Sailing Trip

Vancouver Sailing Trip

 Best Boating Apps for a Vancouver Sailing Trip, technology is king in the 21st century. There are not many activities that aren’t enhanced tenfold by the addition of some technology. Boating is one of those activities. When on board one of our beautiful yachts, sailing around the Vancouver Isle and Nanaimo, you may benefit from having some app-based assistance. So we thought we would compile a list of the most useful apps for sailing out there for you.

Weather Applications

The weather is an unpredictable, untamable beast. Well there are some apps out there that may help you with the former.

NOAA - Boating Application

NOAA SuperRes Radar HD (iOS) is an app which has great resolution and radar for accessing stunning weather maps. 

It enables you to view storm features which are not visible in other systems. The app provides access to an hourly forecast, 

as well as 3 and 6 day precipitation and pressure forecasts. 

There are a number of overlays you can play with including 

the temperature one. It also provides you with alerts should some severe weather be heading your way which is very useful whilst yachting. There are impressive zooms, animation features, 

and lots of pretty colours to choose from as well as terrain, hybrid, satellite and normal map styles. The GPS locator can be particularly useful when boating for leisure and travel, 

and you can share your location as well as search for desired stop off points.

Redar Scope - Weather Application

RadarScope is the Android version of NOAA for all intents and purposes. It is used widely by weather fanatics as well as meteorologists. It also has impressive resolution and radar and can also provide warnings for impending adverse weather conditions and can even pinpoint the centre of storms. It works alongside the US National Weather Service. You can plot your location and report it to the spotter network too. It automatically uses its intelligence to update data between every 2 and 10 minutes to make sure you always have the most up to date information on your journey. For the pro subscription you can also access live real-time lightening data.

Tides Near Me - Information Application

Tides Near Me is a great specialist tool for focussing on, you guessed it, tides! 

It gives you information on the current tide, and the next one, as well as information about the forces behind it all; the sun and moon. You can view nice tables and charts within this boating app.

Wind finder Application

Windfinder does what it says in the name. Wind and everything related to it such as the waves are tracked through this nifty app.

It is great if you are planning on doing some activities whilst on your yachting trip in Nanaimo such as windsurfing or kite surfing but is also useful for simple sailing.

Forecasts are accurate and provide real time info so you always know what you are about to come up against. The app is also very pretty and user friendly which is always a bonus.

This app also doesn’t gobble up data like some of the others, which means a quicker loading time, and less wasted data!

You can get tide info for the next 10 days and also check air direction and temperatures.

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