This year in Pavilion 2 dedicated to Equipment, we have a wave of digital tablets designed to replace stationary, more costly electronics. Remarkable for their multiple functions, they make it possible to combine business with pleasure: controlling navigation and engines, as well as also mixing on-board music and storing your photographs, etc.
New for 2012: this year, Pavilion 2.1 is hosting the Maritima section bringing together all those working in the maritime industries (12 - 15 December) as well as the area dedicated to the High Tech & Sea presenting today’s latest High Tech innovations.
Onboard Wi-Fi Solutions
This winter, everyone is making a beeline for the tablets after Raymarine, the prestigious British specialist Brooks and Gatehouse is offering Go Free, a WiFi solution that enables you to use your tablet in network with your systems. Not to be outdone, the sister brands of the Navico group (Simrad and Lowrance) are also unveiling mobile solutions. French specialist in marine electronics used in racing (equipping most of those racing in the Vendée Globe, for example), NKE has added a bit of colour to its precision by offering Multigraphics, a colour screen providing the possibility of oversee all of the boat functions: from the automatic pilot to tracking AIS targets. The entire thing can be transferred by WiFi through its NMEA interface. The brand also has a free application for iPhone and iPad at the Apple Store.
The publishers of course plotting software are also multiplying the products available for surfing the wave of tablets. Like the French firm Adrena which is offering a Windows 8 solution and improving its offering with, for example, an overlay of aerial photos in its navigational charts.
At Garmin, a leader worldwide in portable GPS, they are heartily attacking Apple tablets by presenting a mobile version by Blue Chart, the home cartography enhanced with data about the currents and weather in real time. So you have the same functions and services as on a Garmin GPS, directly on your tablet. Navionics, the current leader in the App Store for marine cartography, had better watch out! The engine builders are investing themselves in the networking trend too, with the NMEA module from Mercury Marine which makes it possible to read the engine data using any station and thus forward it by Wi-Fi.
Music!
At sea more than anywhere else, music is a part of the fun, whether while wakeboarding or under spinnaker at sunset. The specialist Fusion is presenting new ranges this year of marine audio radios that can be controlled remotely using the Apple iPhone.
Protections
To use our precious tablets to do everything, in all types of weather, it is necessary to protect them and here too the number of products is growing rapidly. Visitors to Nautic will be able to see solutions proposed by Scanstrut, Aquapac, and Andres Industries.
Deck Fittings
Here again, there are numerous innovations and new products: Harken has developed its Performa range of lightweight winches for regatta competitors and now offers hydraulic solutions for cruiser rigging; Seldén which is developing its deck equipment for ever more comfort and the Normans of Karver cover their carbon blocks with wood for classic yachts. As with the boatbuilders, so too have the makers of components segmented their offering by developing characteristic products for racing, fishing, cruising or design.
New for 2012: this year, Pavilion 2.1 is hosting the Maritima section bringing together all those working in the maritime industries (12 - 15 December) as well as the area dedicated to the High Tech & Sea presenting today’s latest High Tech innovations.
Onboard Wi-Fi Solutions
This winter, everyone is making a beeline for the tablets after Raymarine, the prestigious British specialist Brooks and Gatehouse is offering Go Free, a WiFi solution that enables you to use your tablet in network with your systems. Not to be outdone, the sister brands of the Navico group (Simrad and Lowrance) are also unveiling mobile solutions. French specialist in marine electronics used in racing (equipping most of those racing in the Vendée Globe, for example), NKE has added a bit of colour to its precision by offering Multigraphics, a colour screen providing the possibility of oversee all of the boat functions: from the automatic pilot to tracking AIS targets. The entire thing can be transferred by WiFi through its NMEA interface. The brand also has a free application for iPhone and iPad at the Apple Store.
The publishers of course plotting software are also multiplying the products available for surfing the wave of tablets. Like the French firm Adrena which is offering a Windows 8 solution and improving its offering with, for example, an overlay of aerial photos in its navigational charts.
© Raoul Dobremel / AFP / Nautic 2011
At Garmin, a leader worldwide in portable GPS, they are heartily attacking Apple tablets by presenting a mobile version by Blue Chart, the home cartography enhanced with data about the currents and weather in real time. So you have the same functions and services as on a Garmin GPS, directly on your tablet. Navionics, the current leader in the App Store for marine cartography, had better watch out! The engine builders are investing themselves in the networking trend too, with the NMEA module from Mercury Marine which makes it possible to read the engine data using any station and thus forward it by Wi-Fi.
Music!
At sea more than anywhere else, music is a part of the fun, whether while wakeboarding or under spinnaker at sunset. The specialist Fusion is presenting new ranges this year of marine audio radios that can be controlled remotely using the Apple iPhone.
Protections
To use our precious tablets to do everything, in all types of weather, it is necessary to protect them and here too the number of products is growing rapidly. Visitors to Nautic will be able to see solutions proposed by Scanstrut, Aquapac, and Andres Industries.
Deck Fittings
Here again, there are numerous innovations and new products: Harken has developed its Performa range of lightweight winches for regatta competitors and now offers hydraulic solutions for cruiser rigging; Seldén which is developing its deck equipment for ever more comfort and the Normans of Karver cover their carbon blocks with wood for classic yachts. As with the boatbuilders, so too have the makers of components segmented their offering by developing characteristic products for racing, fishing, cruising or design.
 © Raoul Dobremel / AFP / Nautic 2011 |
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 © Raoul Dobremel / AFP / Nautic 2011 |
