Weather routing MaxSea allows you to choose the fastest or the safest route   Routing is seeking the best route depending on meteorological factors, currents, the characteristics of your yacht and your own navigation style. The method for calculating this optimal route using MaxSea is instantaneous and allows you to avoid hours of work, whilst at the same time often being more accurate than the best calculations done by hand… MaxSea Routing calculates the best route depending on meteorological factors, the characteristics of your yacht, your crew, and your objective. Are you looking for speed, or comfort and safety? MaxSea Routing fully adapts to your choice and offers you the best route that matches your own needs. Choose the maximum wind that you want to encounter, indicate zones that you absolutely must avoid, or zones that you want to pass through, and MaxSea will do the calculations for you… Comparison of a "pleasure boating/safety" routing and a "sports" routing   Details of the paths of these two routings with different objectives Just like the weather, routing is one of the elements that yachtsmen have to master.Harsh winds can considerably reduce the boat’s speed, and become a real danger for the vessel and its crew. MaxSea Routing’s calculation algorithms avoid sending the boat towards conditions that are risky or simply unpleasant, thus providing a pleasant, safer passage. MaxSea allows you to indicate the conditions under which to navigate; and then, it executes the optimal route calculations. So you can use routing one way for performance sailing during weekend races, or another way in for leisurely cruises… - The weather forecasts along the route that you envisage taking. MaxSea Chopper data is free, and thus offers a cost-effective choice for ocean crossings. Navimail allows access to Météo France’s data, which you pay for. This highly detailed data, are very accurate for Europe and the Mediterranean   - Current forecasting : If you are in a yacht, strong currents or changing currents will have a real influence on your optimal route. Using them in your routing is not mandatory, but it is strongly recommended. See the details of the current atlases available in the catalog. - Your choice : Do you want to avoid winds in excess of 20 knots ? Do you want to avoid particular zones ? Or, to the contrary, do you want to pass through particular zones ? Program your parameters into MaxSea, and it will do the routing calculations for you… Marine weather forecasts are now of good quality, increasingly fine, accurate and reliable. Weather data is received onboard or on land via e-mail. Today, a simple mobile phone allows you to receive these very small files, covering up to 20 miles of coastline, for a minimal telecommunications cost. Since weather forecast data is increasingly reliable (which means you no longer have to receive them in real time once at sea) can also receive them via a Wi-Fi link in port before setting sail. Current data are also increasingly accurate and reliable. Even if the wind shows little variation, MaxSea routing will at least take into account changes in the current and will propose an optimal and safe route to you. With MaxSea’s accurate current data and fine-mesh weather data, the routing function is extremely useful, and even essential once you have tried ita.   Video of currents routing in the English Channel: The yellow boat uses MaxSea’s current data and arrives before the blue boat. Increasingly reliable data and more straightforward telecommunication solutions mean that routing is now a very affordable, safe tool. MaxSea uses routing algorithms based on the production of isochrones, represented on the chart by yellow and purple curves. At set time intervals, each isochrone determines the maximum distance the boat has to cover in all directions from the chosen start point, for a given date. MaxSea carries out a sort of “scan” in the objective’s direction. The “lines” displayed on screen are all calculation hypotheses. At the end of the process, it displays THE optimal route adopted in red, depending on the point to reach, the routing objective (comfort, safety or speed, etc.) and the conditions encountered (weather, currents, polars, etc.). MaxSea can then display the route plan proposed, with the conditions expected at each passage point, in the form of a route table. This is the “Routing Center”. Do you want further technical details on MaxSea’s calculation mode? The simplicity of MaxSea’s routing is illustrated in the routing implementation video. Routing implementation What is the BEST ROUTE for YOU ? Why has MaxSea’s Routing become essential for the SAFETY OF YACHTSMEN ? What information does MaxSea need ? Why is routing now accessible to everyone today ? How does it work ? The recent success of MaxSea’s Professional Routing with the Vendée Globe fleet and of the Jacques Vabre Transatlantic event confirms the quality and usefulness of a tool that is acclaimed by its users. The new functionalities offered by Version 12.5. Routing that improves safety