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Navigation, Innovation, and Life on the Water

28 mai 2025

Safe Navigation: The Balance Between Technology and Skill

In the past, route planning was inevitably a manual process involving paper charts, subject to errors caused by using charts of different scales and updates that were not always timely. Today, digital tools offer ever-increasing precision, speed, and…

Did You Know?

9 décembre 2022

Waterway Guide Media and Aqua Map: Perfect Cockpit Companions

When software engineers, cartographers, publishers and boaters get in a room together all sort of ideas begin percolating. That’s what Waterway Guide …

Did You Know?

17 novembre 2022

Marine Forecasts

Aqua Map now includes Marine Forecasts in their app. There are three legs to the weather offering: Wind, Waves, and Currents. So how will Aqua Map dif…

Did You Know?

29 juillet 2022

ActiveCaptain community support

Aqua Map strongly believe in the support of boaters and sailors communities and we started introducing the support to ActiveCaptain community on Augus…

Sailing and Boating

20 juin 2022

Lightning Damage – Aqua Map Saves The Day!

We were wrapping up our 5-month winter 2021 / spring 2022 cruise from South Carolina to The Bahamas aboard s/v Little Wing, a Valiant 42CE. We had cru…

Sailing and Boating

20 mai 2022

Tips for life on board: Dogs on board

My husband and I have been sailing for more than 20 years, and our dogs have always been with us, first a poodle, then a Labrador. We always thought t…

Sailing and Boating

20 avril 2022

First Season in the Bahamas – Sailing with Aqua Map and Explorer Charts

Jason Spitz and Monica Schandel are co-captains of SV Breathe and partners in their underwater photography business, Breathe Sail Dive, LLC. Both hold…

Fishing

20 janvier 2022

Let’s talk about Sustainable Fishing

The relationship between Humans and the Sea has changed! We want to make our small contribution to empower our audience, made up of sailors and fisher…

Fishing

20 novembre 2021

KAYAK FISHING: What is it, a bit of history, Italian movement

Can you imagine for a moment to be away from the crowds, noise and stress of everyday life, sitting on a kayak in the complete silence of a dawn, abov…

Did You Know?

20 novembre 2021

USACE Surveys Integration

Aqua Map cartographic database is built on two main key activities: research and integration. We search the best data available from different sources…

Sailing and Boating

20 octobre 2021

Kids on board: What to do on the boat?

How do you eat and sleep when on a boat? Following the needs of your body and not those dictated by the social clock, has enormous benefits. On board …

Did You Know?

20 octobre 2021

Satellite and Land data

I remember the first time, more than 20 years ago, I saw the Satellite images overlaid on a map…that’s like switching on the sun in the night. During …

Sailing and Boating

20 septembre 2021

Kids on board yes or no?

Books have been written, debates on forums and social networks, we have decided to dedicate an article to “the little ones” and summarize some tips ba…