The app has been available in the Apple App Store since today and the Android version has already been online for a fortnight. The YACHT Navigator presents the paper charts from Delius Klasing as a raster chart app and is a fully-fledged navigator for crews who want to utilise the advantages of digital navigation on board at the swipe of a finger.
The programme displays the most important boat data such as course over ground, speed and GPS position clearly on the nautical chart. With a measuring tool, it is easy to quickly access courses and distances to the next destination. Depending on the skipper's preference, the boat data can be displayed as a brief info bar at the top of the app or via a larger tab, with the GPS position on the left-hand side. A further display at the top of the screen provides the skipper with live information about the accuracy of the GPS signal at all times.
All DK chart sets can be downloaded via the app's chart shop from 19 March. The sets for the German Baltic Sea, Denmark, Sweden as well as Croatia and the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean will then be available. Customers who purchase the paper map sets will also receive a code that allows them to download the digital sets to their tablet free of charge. The basic app is also free of charge, a trial data package for the area from Kiel to Sonderburg is already available and allows you to test the functions extensively in advance.
A routing tool for creating waypoints will follow with the next major update, which has been announced for Easter, just in time for the start of the season.
Versions for smartphones and Windows mobile devices will follow in the course of this year, as will a further update that will make harbour information available.
Click here for the app in the Appstore and here in the Google Play Store.
Andreas Fritsch
Editor Travel
