Avalon Offshore: a  weather routing and navigation app for cruisers and racers

• It works on Android and iOS tablets. Since It also works on the new generation of Macbook M1, equipped with an ARM chipset. 
• Avalon Offshore integrated the whole set of functions that are useful to cruisers and offshore racers; weather routing, weather, navigation with NMEA 0183 and AIS collision alarm, anchoring alert, regatta start management wit laylines, etc…Avalon includes  automatic loading of 65 weather models: NOAA GFS, Metro France Arpege,and Arome, DVD Icon, OpenWRF Skiron, …
• Avalon also includes advanced functions rarely available in standard weather routing systems such as:
  • Bathymetric weather routing, allowing calculation of routes taking into consideration the draft of the boat.
  • Simultaneous comparaison of routes across different weather models, different routes options, etc
  • Free use of Avalon VPP to calculate customised VPP polars for single hull boats (main sail + genoa, code 0, gennaker, spinnaker, staysail and mizzen sail
  • In addition to a VPP polar capture when sailing to tune your VPP.
  • High compression of weather data on several models (GFS, Arpege, Icon, NAM Caraïbes et USA East) enabling to reduce by up to 95% volume of data, very efficient for satellite transmission (Iridium Go, Iridium Inmarsat, etc)
  • Easy weather routing module (from harbor to harbor)  for a quick start of the app.
  • Compatible with ©Navionics Boating maps without additional cost.
  • Interfaced with ©Navily for a quick selection of the best moorings and harbors.

From € 45 + taxes in 2021