Leading leisure navigational app enhances features

Maritime navigation expert Nautisk™, a StormGeo company, has enhanced the features in its navigational planning app, NaviPlotter™, to make it an essential tool for mariners out on the water.

Leisure mariners and boating enthusiasts will now be able to access more digital charts, covering parts of Europe and also New Zealand, and new safety features via the app.

Mariners can now purchase professional-grade digital charts covering German and Finnish waters – including Germany’s inland waterways – as well as New Zealand. The addition of these digital charts expands the offering across the globe, so more mariners have access to safer methods of plotting their journeys.

Following the enhancement of the app’s safety features, mariners also now have access to Ship AIS Safety messages. NaviPlotter™ is currently the only app to have the Ship AIS Safety messaging feature, which allows messages to be transmitted between boats and the coastguard, providing immediate alerts for any danger or obstructions.

Another change to the app is the updated Time to Collision and Distance Collision notices. Users can now change the default setting of 200m in 10 minutes to any distance and time, and are also able to disable the notices altogether. This can help when entering a busy harbour, reducing the risk of distraction by distance alarms when passing other vessels.

Naviplotter™ gives mariners access to important voyage planning tools, is free to download and is available on handheld devices including iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.

Through in-app purchases users can access professional grade ENC charts, live ship data as well as NMEA wind depth and boat speed support.