About Avalon Offshore
Have more fun sailing Avalon Offshore is a complete weather routing and navigation application . It works on iPads and iPhones. It also works on the new generation of Macbook Air and Pro,equipped with an ARM 64 chipset. Av
Have more fun sailing
Avalon Offshore is a complete weather routing and navigation application .
It works on iPads and iPhones. It also works on the new generation of Macbook Air and Pro,equipped with an ARM 64 chipset.
Avalon Offshore integrated the whole set of functions that are useful to cruisers and offshore racers; weather routing, weather, navigation with NMEA 0183 and AIS collision alarm, anchoring alert, regatta start management wit laylines, etc…
Avalon includes automatic loading of 65 weather models: NOAA GFS, Metro France Arpege,and Arome, DVD Icon, OpenWRF Skiron, etc
Avalon also includes advanced functions such as:
- Bathymetric weather routing, allowing calculation of routes taking into consideration the draft of the boat.
- Simultaneous comparaison of routes across different weather models, different routes options, etc…
- Free use of Avalon VPP to calculate customised VPP polars for single hull boats (main sail + genoa, code 0, gennaker, spinnaker, staysail and mizzen sail.
- High compression of weather data on several models (GFS, Arpege, Icon, NAM Caraïbes et USA East) enabling to reduce by up to 95% volume of data, very efficient for satellite transmission (Iridium Go, Iridium Inmarsat, etc)
- Easy weather routing module (from harbor to harbor) for a quick start of the app.
- Compatible with ©Navionics Boating maps without additional cost.
- Interfaced with ©Navily for a quick selection of the best moorings and harbors.
- On time arrival : Calculate departure time to arrive on a given time
VPP Polars
- Free use of Avalon VPP to customize your boat velocity preduction and adapt them to the exact caracteristics of your boat
- Polar captation at sea
Nautical Maps
- Free raster nautical maps: NOAA, Linz, Brasil, New Zealand
- In-app pack of maps derived from UKHO or SHOM covering France, UK Belgium, Portugal, Spain Carribean, Eastern and Western Mediterranean, Transatlantic, ...
- Personal maps support: mbtiles, tif, kap, geotiff
- Navionics maps: You can use your Navionics Boating maps with Avalon free of charge.
Weather Sources
- 65 automatic weather sources (wind, gust, current, wave and general weather) included in the Premium Option (in-app purchase)
- Capability to load external grib files (as an alternative to the Premium option)
- Capability to load external current grib from Tidetech®
Includes one month free use of Premium options (see below)
IN-APP PURCHASE: PREMIUM OPTION
Includes:
- Iridium data compression (reduce by 6 transmitted volumes)
- additional weather sources: Arome, Arpege, NAM, CEP, Skiron ....
- Weather data up to 394 hours including Wind, Gust, Waves, Precipitation, Storms, Cloud Coverage, Pressure, Temperature
- Integration of currents in route calculation in covered areas (worldwide, Iberia Biscay and Ireland and Mediterranean sea)
- Waves (Swell and wind waves)
Privacy Policy and Terms of Use at: http://www.avalon-routing.com/new/privacy/
Warning: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Policy and Terms of Use at: http://www.avalon-routing.com/new/privacy/
Aug 29, 2023
Version 6.3.1
Improved "on time arrival" function
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Avalon Offshore since it was posted on our website on 2020-05-21 23:18:10.
The latest version is 6.3.1 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 16:18:31. See below the changes in each version.
Avalon Offshore version 6.3.1
Updated At: 2023-08-29
Changes: Aug 29, 2023
Version 6.3.1
Improved "on time arrival" function
Avalon Offshore version 6.2.3
Updated At: 2023-06-22
Changes: Jun 22, 2023
Version 6.2.3
NMEA screen display: Compass with North or bow of the boat up
Improved Race Option: time, distance and heading to the layline.
Improved iPhone 14 Pro display
Avalon Offshore version 6.2.1
Updated At: 2023-05-30
Changes: May 30, 2023
Version 6.2.1
NMEA screen improvement
Improvement of the routing engine
Avalon Offshore version 6.2
Updated At: 2023-04-16
Changes: Apr 16, 2023
Version 6.2
New NMEA navigation screen
NMEA messages filter
Various fixes and minor improvements
Avalon Offshore version 6.1.1
Updated At: 2023-02-27
Changes: Feb 27, 2023
Version 6.1.1
Fix date display in Best Start for iOS 12. No impact on iOS13 and above
Avalon Offshore version 5.5.1
Updated At: 2022-05-13
Changes: May 13, 2022 Version 5.5.1
Amelioration de la visualisation de la route
Amelioration route hybride
Export route calculée au format csv
Import des POI vua Avalon Cloud
Waypoints management
Avalon Offshore version 5.5
Updated At: 2022-03-30
Changes: Mar 30, 2022 Version 5.5
Improved view of calculated route
Transfer of navigation route waypoints from Avalon to the board chart plotter via NMEA
Various fixes
Avalon Offshore version 5.3.1
Updated At: 2021-11-25
Changes: Nov 25, 2021 Version 5.3.1
Fix access issue to Navionics maps
Avalon Offshore version 5.3
Updated At: 2021-11-11
Changes: Nov 11, 2021 Version 5.3
Automated Internet connection via Iridium Go
Capability to export meteo grib files from Avalon to other navigation/routing/weather applications
Avalon Offshore version 5.2.5
Updated At: 2021-09-21
Changes: Sep 21, 2021 Version 5.2.5
Minor fixes and cosmetic improvements