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Another Shout-Out for Boating App Tips

One frustrating aspect of living in this ‘app-happy’ era of endless innovation is that is it seems almost impossible to keep up with the latest, greatest developments. That’s certainly true when it comes to smartphone, tablet and computer software related to boating — which is precisely why we did a call-out to ‘Lec Lat readers last week asking for tips on their favorite boating apps.

Since then, we’ve been introduced to a variety of great programs, but we suspect that we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg.

Both fascinating and genuinely useful the Windytv app is a marvelous adaptation of real-time and projected weather data that not only shows wind direction and speed, but also offers swell height and direction, temperatures, humidity and more.

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So if you use an app (or apps) that you find to be genuinely useful, we’d love to hear about it. Please email us a brief description of why you like it and, if possible, snap a screen shot of it, and share that with us also. (On an iPhone, simultaneously hold down the "power key" at the top, and the "home key" at the bottom.) 

We’ll distill down all the reader input we receive for inclusion in an article in the January or February issue of Latitude 38. Thanks for the help!

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