Expedition  _{Designed by sailors for sailors}

News

17 Dec 2009

Exp v6.13.2

Updated magnetic variation model.

11 Dec 2009

Exp v6.13.1

Enhanced Koden radar and Tidetech support.

25 July 2009

Team NZ wins the Cagliari MedCup regatta.

10 June 2009

Exp v6.11.5 includes tidal current models in laylines and Nexus FDX updates.

18 May 2009

Exp v6.9 has Proudman tidal currents.

09 June 2008

Gulf stream

Information for the Newport to Bermuda race.

www.nmea.org

Resources

Free Grib weather data

• Saildocs - GFS, WW3, NOGAPS, COAMPS etc

• Global marine net - GFS

• Grib.us - GFS by email

• MailASail - GFS by email

• Meteo Marine - links to free Grib data

• NOAA

• Norwegian weather office

Subscription Grib weather data

Note that that obtaining grib data may not be allowed in any particular yacht race if the data is not freely available.

• PredictWind.com - The choice of experts - recommended!

• Ocens - comprehensive provider of grib (and other) data

• Meteo consult

• Meteo France

• Norwegian weather office

• ProGrib - high resolution grib data

• Theyr - high resolution grib data

Weather

• North Sails Event Weather

• WxWorx - XM weather

Tides and currents

• Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie - free high resolution tidal current data in grib format.

  • North sea, 6nm, 1hr,

  • German Bight, 1nm, 30min,

  • Baltic Sea 6nm, 1hr,

  • Western Baltic, 1nm, 1hr.

• Tidetech - Australian tidal currents, Sydney tidal grib data generated using Expedition software.

• Winning Tides - Solent, UK

Articles of interest

• Expedition and the Gulf Stream