Navigation.
Chart apps, passage planning, and marina reviews. Which app to plot on, which to cross-check with, and how to plan a passage that survives contact with the weather.
Savvy Navvy vs Navionics, six months on.
Both apps, both ways. Where one wins, where the other still owns the deck, and which we kept paying for on a 500 nm passage.
Savvy Navvy
GUIDE · 7 MINAuto-routing around hazards, integrated weather and tides. Where the simplicity helps and where you still need to think for yourself.
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GUIDE · 6 MINActiveCaptain community data, Garmin chart integration, and how it fits a mixed paper-and-plotter nav station.
Read the guide →Navily & MySea
GUIDE · 5 MINCrowd-sourced moorings, reviews, and bookings. The apps that tell you whether tonight's anchorage actually holds.
Read the guide →Passage planning
ARTICLE · 9 MINAppraisal, planning, execution, monitoring — what each stage means on a real coastal passage, not just in the exam.
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