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10 types of apps you have to download to your phone or tablet before sailing

By YachtSailing Editorial Team·5 min read·

In short

I’m sure you would have thought, especially if you are a novice in sailing, it will be a good idea to equip your smartphone with the appropriate apps so you can use them at any time in order to solve the problems you encounter during sailing on board. Knowing about the weather forecast, follow the correct navigation wi

I’m sure you would have thought, especially if you are a novice in sailing, it will be a good idea to equip your smartphone with the appropriate apps so you can use them at any time in order to solve the problems you encounter during sailing on board. Knowing about the weather forecast, follow the correct navigation with a compass app and pleasantly consume your time but without cluttering much bandwidth or battery. Huh? These are the 10 types of applications you have to think of having and have to prepare before the trip.

Obviously the first thing that comes to mind is the applications about the weather, so that you could know early enough what will be the plans of the day and how you are going to travel against the wind. Surely you will have connected a laptop so that you can control the data accurately at your sailboat, but it is ideal to try use the tablet as a pleasant control environment of the weather and while you're relaxing, you can have at a glance the image of next day.

Sometimes knowing the accurate weather may depend on where you have moored and if the local authority has done its job right on it. Therefore you should always be looking if there are local applications available where you are in order to catch the right weather results.

10 types of apps you have to download to your phone or tablet before sailing
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