Marine Rules & Signals app for iPhone and iPad

4.8 ( 5648 ratings )

Sports Navigation
Developer: Imray

5.99 USD

Current version: 3.2, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 14 May 2009
App size: 27.61 Mb

The reference guide to rules and signals at sea. Part of a series of Marine Navigation apps, Rules & Signals is a useful tool for sailors, fishermen, surfers and people involved in sea water sports. The Imray Marine Navigation reference products are intended for quick reference and learning.

Beautifully illustrated with diagrams and short, clear text. Remind yourself quickly about a rule or light, or learn at home, traveling or in the winter while planning your trips.

INCLUDES
RULES OF THE ROAD:
- Steering and sailing rules.
- Lights and shapes: day and night time marking of boats.
- Sound signals in restricted visibility. Actual sounds.
- Distress signals.
- Full Colregs text.

SIGNALS & COMMUNICATION:
- Buoys: worldwide buoyage systems A & B and animated harbour approaches.
- Buoy lights, animated.
- Sample harbour charts from around the world, with animated lights.
- Flags: flag translator, phonetic alphabet, morse code and message builder.
- Dual flag messages.
- Racing flags.
- Semaphore flags.
- Radio calls including Mayday/PanPan and radio channels.
- Life saving communication including air rescue: Solas V.
- Communication with air rescue.

LEARNING SYSTEM:
- Learning cards for all content, by section or for all Rules together.

Content can be scrolled, viewed individually or in sequence. Large images (charts and at a glance images) can be zoomed and panned.

Based on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions and Sea, 1972, with amendments in force from November 1995, SOLAS Chapter V Regulation 29 and the general guidelines for buoys and signals.

LANGUAGES
English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese

ABOUT US
Imray are a leading chart and marine book publishers, based in England and with a catalogue of charts that covers Europe, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. Imrays pilot books cover the whole world in extensive detail.

In partnership with Imray, software developers and sailors.

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Look out for other applications in the Marine Navigation Series from Imray:

TIDES PLANNER - tide predictions any date
MARINE CHARTS - Europe Atlantic, Mediterranean, Caribbean, Australia
BOAT INSTRUMENTS & AIS (requires WiFI NMEA bridge)
CHART SYMBOLS

Pros and cons of Marine Rules & Signals app for iPhone and iPad

Marine Rules & Signals app good for

Awesome program,its really the complete package. Great for reference and studying. Would recommend to the pros and user friendly for the novice.

Its very excellent programs for study & upgrade your khowledge.

Just what I needed as a recreational sailor/cruiser to keep current on the forgettable details of mute seagoing communications. Very handy to have on the iPhone. Uncluttered and accessable program without over-ambitious (cumbersome) menu navigation.

Its a good app. I am in the coast guard and its good review and good for teaching new younger seaman. Just be aware that nav rules do change and you must keep updated yourself.

So far it looks really good. It nice to have this app so I can study for my captains license.

Some bad moments

Very little information in this app. I hope a future update will correct this. Not worth .99 cents as it is!

This app is lacking some of the most important rules and the user interface is confusing and not well thought out I hope to see an update for this app soon because as it stands now it is not worth the money by far this version should be free considering the amount of information it has.

I am a naval navigator and noticed that there are many mistakes in this program. Unfortunately the rules are written by a bunch of lawyers so as the average sailor cant break the code easily. With this in mind it is very important to understand the rules VERY concisely which this program does an exceptionally poor job. As an addendum to my previous comments above, please note things precisely whereby a vessel is not over 50m by virtue of the lights it shows, it actually mean that the vessel is "possibly over 50m" these kind of elementary mistakes on the rules are not excused until fixed - please fix them, or at least get a proper interpreter of the rules before release of your next version.

its not worth the money you pay! just to expensive for what is offering..

Very simplistic and hard to view images since you cant enlarge them. Extremely disappointed for the price. Wouldnt recommend. Spend the money to buy a book on the topic.

This app is totally overpriced. It should be free. Info is very simplistic and general info that every boater should already know. Def not a good reference unless you are just looking up flag signals.

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