The editors at Yachting World Magazine are interested in finding out how cruising sailors are using their iPads or other tablets/devices.

They are running a feature in the next issue of the magazine on using mobile devices afloat and would like to include views from experienced cruisers.

Do you have an iPad or tablet computer aboard?
If so, what apps or programs do you find most useful and why?

Any cruisers willing to assist Yachting World with information should e-mail Racing & Technical Editor - Matthew Sheahan at matthew@sheahan.co.uk

Vice Commodore, OCC 

Our iPads have proven more stable than our two plotters, which are a B&G Zeus 12 and B&G Zeus2. The plotters are pretty stable, but we find that if left on for days on end (as when one is crossing an ocean), they will at some point crash and reboot themselves. Not a big issue, as these very rare reboots take care of themselves in about 30 to 45 seconds, but certainly an annoyance.

This past week we upgraded to MaxSea on the iPads because Navionics on the iPads did not show the following clearing heights:

1. The bridge at the Guadiana river near its mouth, at Ayamonte.
2. The overhead power cables in the Guadalquivir river below Gelves (near Sevilla)
3. The overhead power cables in the Guadalquivir immediately south of Sevilla

Beware of Navionics on the iPad.

MaxSea, being raster maps, evidently _do_ provide this critical life-or-death information. $50 for the Eastern Med, from the Portuguese border to Italy.

Cheers,


OH
At anchor, El Rompido, near Huelva