Waterkaarten: Boat Navigation

When I saw the add while playing solitaire I was excited because we are leaving in 10 days for our two week canal boat trip and I am driving. The ads in the App Store look very enticing and I was prepared to pay once the trial worked for me. Unfortunately it did not. The map was very stoggy, moved jerky at best, and only moved back and forth. Vertically extremely limited. My starting locations were not in the database it seems as there was no response. Dutch language is not a problem since I lived in Drenthe 15 years. Perhaps it works well for the Netherlands, but my sailing area is canals in the south of France and the app was totally unresponsive when trying to get to that area. Looks like it’s back to the French waterways booklets for me. Schade, ist leider so. I probably will delete the app later unless it’s got scheduled updates for more of Europe in the works.

This is a superb app with everything one could want for safe and enjoyable cruising in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and the UK and much of France. Very affordable and really shows off the benefit of technology on the waterways with features like AIS, GPS and route planning. Plus all the details on locks and bridges are instantly available and kept up to date. If this lock and bridge information was available to cut and paste into a translator app then that would really help non Dutch speaking sailors.

I use this app all the time when boating. The app improves with every update and is worth the money 👍🏻