Sounds great, can't beat a proper chart. Best of both worlds it would appear. One more vote for Android please! Great work Tom, looking forward to it. Thanks for your continued work to improve things for us sailors and remind us of our fantastic maritime traditions.

When I sailed the length of the uncharted Algerian coast, I relied on satellite images for all the ports of refuge as well as the major places. That was in 2006 and the images are better still now. Great piece of work Tom, if only I still had a yacht!

This is a wonderful new application that seems to provide more than most and on top of that the user friendly GUI is well done indeed. Please post when us Android users can get our hands on this! Well done indeed!

I can't believe I've been sailing (usually solo) and navigating for a couple of decades, and not realised the light flashes on cardinal buoys coincide with their position related to a clock face. If this was on my Day Skipper course, it didn't go in! This is my something new learned today. Thanks Tom.

Brilliant! Thanks a million for introducing AngelNav.

I love this! I'm an old paper chart fart, and this is more like how I learned how to do it. It doesn't try to do everything for me, but it calculates the fiddly bits quickly while I mind the ocean, which is what I came for. Very intuitive interface. Good show, Tom.

always good to see and hear you Tom. great stuff.

Arrived into Poole harbour last month on a warm Saturday afternoon - every type of craft there, from car ferries to yachts, dinghies, paddleboards and swimmers. Thousands of people having great fun, a truly magical place!

What a wonderful service to the sailing community 🙏❤️😊⛵️

I have it and use it. It works brilliantly. Some issues with NOAA charts randomly being invisible, then they'll come back, then the next time you need them they won't be there, but that has nothing to do with Angel Nav and probably more to do with NOAA raster charts and my particular iPad. You really must get going on the Android version. Tons of high quality, reliable 'droid tablets out there at bargain prices, likely to find their way onto a sailboat sooner than a $800 iPad.

Another innovation ⛵ TC does it again!

Looking forward to this coming to Android! Super stuff

Tom, one word, Spiffing.

Until recently, moving to 37ct Countess as f/t cruiser Brittany, with usual digi- plotter, I was delighted to have been using the venerable old Yeoman, a hybrid solution using traditional paper charts (actually, any kind of map, so long as it had Lat/Long), that was placed over a digitising mat, and 'calibrated/synched' against 2 or 3 points on chart, using a puck/ mouse, fed with GPS data. Then, child's play, literally, the puck, guided by whichever of 4 arrows were illuminated, could be moved until they were all unlit, and a little aperture with a pencil sized hole was exactly over the GPS derived actual position, 'fix', on the paper chart. My very young daughters delighted in doing this, and making the dot, circling, and writing the time. However, should we lose GPS, or power, there was always the paper plot, track, and could supplement with taking bearings, depth contours, and EP, dead reckoning. I think what Tom is presenting, also bridges this divide, paper/ chartwork skills, fallback, but in a much more convenient way, charts galore at fingertip, and autonomy of an iPad/ tablet, independent of yacht's integrated systems. Having experienced my Garmin Plotter go offline, 2am, approaching Start Point for Dartmouth, solo, after over 20hr leg, trying to quickly revert to paper chartwork, losing night vision, I am very much into some fallback, contingency. Very interesting!

Tom, this looks like a game-changer. I’m going to try this out.

Good on you both for the project. This will be an excellent addition to the SeaClear raster charts stuck on a power hog laptop. It does integrate AIS, this so far I have not found alternative in freeware. Thanks

Super nice, I hope it's possible later on as well to have the satellite image as a semitransparent overlay on the charts. Also serves nicely as a demo / teaching tool about chart work..

This is brilliant, and reminds me of the navigation instruction I got from the U.S.Coast Guard Auxilliary power squadron course when I learned how to sail, with the calipers, parallel rules, and compass ruler I still have. Makes a lot of sense.

Very impressive lads.

That is so cool Tom. Takes me back to 1980 when I studied coastal navigation in Sydney. Pre GPS so your approach makes a lot of sense to me.

Loving this app going to very useful thank you Tom

You could easily calculate the center of mass of the triangle formed by the three position lines in order to fix a position instead of eyeballing it as a separate action.

Looking forward to the Android release. I'm a dev (not Android unfortunately), but I'd be up for helping with test when you get it to that stage. Good luck Tom and Bill 👍

Downloaded 👍🏾🙏🏽

Downloaded think it’s great, anchor alarm great feature, find it a very useful tool along with Navionics for the upto date tide info.

Shew Tom -thanks for this- will definitely go look and get i.. I also am an oldie - love my paper charts.

wow, excellent!!!

This is a great navigation app 👍

This is absolutely Epic Tom!! I have heard that it is on the cards for the RYA to go all electric for all their courses/qualifications before too long! It is so nice to be able to integrate the new technology with the tangible skills!!

Great development, Tom, all the best!

This is great. I'm new to sailing and missed the boat (so to speak) for old school navigation. I can see me doing this just for a fun challenge.

Thank you, I will try it and see how it goes.

Bravo Tom, this looks brilliant. And yes, Android please...

From what I can see here a nice app. Definitely some good ideas in there! The navigational aids in part one - love them! For many areas currents are not so much of an interest but here in Germany at the North Sea - definitely a thing to consider. I also sailed from here to the Scillies and back - currents are a thing on that trip. Regarding vector charts: The presentation of the data depends on the implementation of the manufacturer of the app or plotter. Can be improved if you use an open source app. ;-) I love that information is added once you zoom in, not cluttering the view in the oversight-mode. But you have to be aware of this fact and zoom into the relevant areas before you go there. But all that can be optimized in software. And I like the option to be able to add personal information to the charts - not for the normal user, only if you can write your own code and add it to the app (which requires an open source app ;-) ) Years ago I tried OpenCPN. There was an option to take scans of raster charts, put some latitude and logitude information to them and then use them for navigation. Nice option if you already have paper charts. Regarding "sattelite maps": Apparently the source is google maps or something like that. So the picutures might be somewhat dated. An important information would be the date of the pictures - don't know if those can be scraped. E.g. the sands at the German North Sea change so rapidly that you always should use your eyes to verify the information in the charts. At rocky coasts - not so much. As someone said: "Rocks don't move." ;-) Are those maps geocoded? Would be a nice option for an overlay mode. ;-) Just some thougths: I also considered writing such an app but decided against it because of too much work for a single person. The better way to use my energy is to contribute to an open source app. Maybe I start next year as I am now retired. 8-) My strategy would be to have a small data-logger in the nav-system from where the app can grab all the data to be displayed in the app (on a tablet, smarthone and/or whatever). Something with Signal-K and OpenCPN seems to be an interesting option. Maybe a source for some inspiration for you? ;-)

Brilliant!

Great App BUT I live in Australia and use Android devices, yes my Navigation App Memory Map uses Raster Charts however you have a few perks they don't have.Good work 😊

Very interesting

Star man as always Tom, have a chocolate MBE mate!

Brilliant

A fine looking practical seamanlike app from the Channel pilot himself. Take my money!... As soon as you've got it rigged for Android Tom 😉 great idea great vid. Hope it works in offline mode unlike some mapping apps. Im sure it will.

Love this Tom! I downloaded it recently as my thoughts were it would work well while I updated the electronics on my new (to me) She 36. Actually, i cant really see why i need anything else now. Looking forward to hearing about any tide feature and Imray Europe charts. Well done on a great product.

Very exciting. Android user here, waiting.

Absolutely fantastic. Well done on such an innovative app combining traditions. I’ve downloaded my app already. Thanks so much Tom. Just hope more recognise the national treasure you really are. Thank you.

Hi Tom - this is extremely impressive! Will you be expanding to Mediterranean Sea at any stage?

This looks like a fantastic app. Have you considered having a feature to construct a tidal curve for primary and secondary ports?

I would like to sail with Tom, and I would say very little. I would simply listen and soak up the history and sailing knowledge.

That’s great stuff Tom and well done because it’s not easy bringing anything new to market. I’m looking forward to giving it a go. Many thanks.

Love-a-lee chub-a-lee. The way raster vs.vector is pitched here, makes me thirst for Edison vs Tesla world fair fun and horror.

Having a lot of fun playing with the app. Downloaded the East Coast and it's great, makes planning easy. I will get a lot of use out of it for sure. I have a question though. I'm not at all tech minded so apologies, but how do I get the data I need for the AIS add on to work? I understand there are two possible sources but it's another language to me 😂

When will it be available for Android and also windows please. Looks excellent and great system I just don’t use iPad

The fact that a rasterised paper chart is more convenient on an iPad than a typical vector plotter map simply speaks to the failure of designing and implementing a good LOD (level of detail) algorithm in the latter.

Hi Tom. I enjoyed our chat last week on Zoom and have now downloaded the app (had to get my old iPad iOS updated). This video popped up independently (KZfaq knows everything) and it makes it very clear how to use Angelnav and you should probably add a really obvious link when the app opens to something similar as my first impressions were not great (just a blank low res image of the UK), but as I know you know what you’re talking about I persisted, bought the South Coast and got it working and I’m confident it will be my go to now. Really looking forward to tides. One thing I’d love is live ‘actual approximate depth’. Ie charted depth plus tide less draft. It’s a simple calculation for a computer (although not from a Raster chart that has no data). Would be great to have it for my boat or even better, for anywhere I click on the chart. Then be able to change the time and forecast actual approximate depth. Stu.

Hurry on the android version! Pleeease.

I wish it had charts for Australia.

Brilliant. As you say - probably been thinking of this myself. I am an Android user, so will have to wait. A couple of comments for thought - regarding the satellite chart, it might be good to know the date that the photo was taken. As you know, sandbanks move all the time - particularly on the east coast, so it could be risk to reply on the image if it is a few months old. Also, when you enter your compass bearing, does it convert to True for you, or are you converting before you enter the bearing?

thankfully someone is thinking of redundancy , In the USA they are taking down lighthouse's and historic shoal markers , the shoals and rocks are still there , we just dont mark them and spend millions to un mark them

Looks like a great app. I’m in the Pacific Northwest and tried to download NOAA raster chart 18400 Strait of Georgia but unsuccessful. Has anyone downloaded a NOAA chart to Angelnav?

This is great , I’ve just downloaded . Does anyone know how to plot course to steer for say 6 hours ie adding each hour tidal vector to the start ?

I much prefer the amount of information on paper/raster charts; sailing over the mudflats and sandbanks of the east coast, anything that's dried out at L.A.T./chart datum doesn't have a depth shown on my Navionics vector charts making referring to paper charts whilst underway critical

This app is brilliant thanks tom! it will be on android too?

Does Angel Nav work in the USA? I downloaded the app, but the only charts to buy are from the UK.

Like this Tom, but currently set up on boat for android tablet and use Imray raster charts alongside paper charts. I do have an iPhone though so if I purchase charts for that would I need to purchase again when android version is available?

Dear Tom, I just thought you may know the boat I bought from an English guy. He has been living in Brittany until 2016 but earlier he had the boat in Poole harbour. The boat is an 50 sqm Seefahrtkreuzer, build at Abeking&Rasmussen in 1937. As most boats from the German navy, she was brought to England and served in the British Navy until 78 under several commands, one of them HMS Caledonia. Her english name is Seebrize or Sea Breeze. As you have made a video about the 100 sqm Overlord and you seem to know the area of Poole quite well, do you have any Photographs of her by coincidence or know someone who might have? I do have the book about the Windfallyachts and have been to the museum in Falmouth for research. The museum has all the documents the author of the book had. I'd be incredibly happy to receive any documentation about the boat. Maybe you also know someone? Best regards

At 9:07 Tom says "Estimated position" yet the symbol is a triangle. And what of the EP? My practice is to never leave my DR for an EP.

Interested

How about making this available on Android or Linux platform?

Would it be possible to use your own charts? f.i. If you have your own scans of certain charts?

What will the app use once NOAA sunsets its raster charts?

Hello Mr Cunliffe, my husband and I live in Uppsala and wonder if you would be interested in seeing a 1966 HR Kungskryssare on the hard as you seem to be in the area?

Napoleonviken!

I wish there will be android version in the future.

any chance of importing AIS data in future

With android having 70% market share you need to get that out asap. Probably should have started there. Great app!

When you do a 3 point fix ,, as your bearing is to a point on land and not from, shouldn't the arrow be away from you ,

Sounds great, the only issue is, far more people use android than apple.......

@tomcunliffe what about Canadian charts?

i'm on android :(

This looks like a really great app!! Thank you. But: Would this work with Open CPN?

Good seaman and navigators develop their "spacial awareness" from an early age. It is a graphic understanding of their immediate surroundings. Traditional chartwork and pilotage is based on this graphic mental interpretation. Until AngelNav, chart plotters have abbreviated chart information for a perceived efficiency at the cost of basic tuition. AngelNav restores and contributes to the seaman's "spacial awareness" in the 21st century.

I'll buy this when it comes on Android.......and if you want to capture a big chunk of the market then these features need adding.....Ais overlay, real time gps overlay, nmea input with true and apparent wind markers. NMEA output to autopilot.

Wow this is a really cool app! This has so much potential! I and probably a lot of sailors have been looking for such a good app for so long. All these developers keep saying their software is made for sailors. But none of them suffice. I have so many ideas! Your own radar, AIS compatible, wind direction, forward scan compatible or your own forward scan, laylines, tide information, tide information per tide diamond if you hover over it and then can implement it in your EP or CTS. There is so much you can do with raster charts! No one sees the potential! Vector is so disadvantageous.I don't like working with it at all. I have 1 suggestion that I ask a lot of manufacturers. I have already asked this to IMRAY. I got a negative answer. But you Tom, you are at the source . Maybe you also think this is something. What if we sailors can print the charts ourselves. A3 or A4 size with the necessary scale and so on. That's going to take a lot of weight off IMRAY's shoulders I think, don't you think? Thanks Tom Christof

what do i do to have it work on some thing not iphone based? is there a version for android? or windows ?

Ahhhhhh....half the world (or more) uses Android....no Android version??

time will come when we need them once again.😌🤥soon i hope.because all the satellites will stop working or have been blown up by enemy fire..think it will be the end of the world.apologise for doom mongering .

What do we want "AngelNav!" When do we want it? "Now!" What do we want it on? "ANDROID!" What possessed you Tom? FGS Avoid proprietary! Especially expensive proprietary.

www.gov.uk/government/news/ukho-to-extend-timetable-for-paper-chart-withdrawal#:~:text=In%20July%20last%20year%2C%20we,2026%20to%20complete%20the%20process.