Offing Mediterranean: Charts

Offing is a logbook that writes itself. Before you cast off it tells you where to anchor and how much water there is. Under way: the bearing, the distance and the time of arrival, with a suggested line that stays off the land. By the time you tie up again, the passage is already written. BEFORE YOU GO · Tap anywhere on the chart and it tells you what is there: anchorages, harbours, marks, depth and seagrass meadows. · Marine bulletin and sea state: wind, waves, period and water temperature. · Download the area in port and the chart works just the same ten miles offshore, in airplane mode. UNDER WAY · Bearing to waypoint, distance, cross-track error and time of arrival. · A suggested route that stays clear of land, in legs: the bearing points at the next waypoint and the ETA gives you both, the leg and the destination. · Chart course up, like a plotter. Or north up, if you prefer. · The…