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What do you guys use for checking current weather conditions while your out on the water? Any iPhone Apps or websites you use besides buying a $2000 device for the boat?

Share your methods of checking weather prior to heading out as well as what you use while underway!

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2005 Four Winns 268 Vista

I like the (free) iphone app from The Weather Channel. The radar lets you zoom in pretty tight and also generates future patterns on the radar (I think 45 mins ahead). I also have the Navionics "Lakes" map for my area. It's pretty good...could be better, but a bargain for the $5-10 that it costs (I forget the exact price).

http://www.navionics.com/LakeFeatures_HMPlatinum.asp

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'04 Four Winns Horizon 250 - Volvo Penta 5.7L DP

I use the mobile site for Weather Underground (m.wund.com). They have a fairly accurate forecast and allow you to zoom into the local radar and see the in-motion radar to track the weather. For those that can get a reliable signal with AT&T, they also have an iPhone App.

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-Rob.


Current boat: 2011 Yamaha AR210
Previous boat: 1998 Horizon RX 4.3GL SX

2nd Weather Underground mobile site. Used to use their iphone app, but they stopped updating it. The mobile site is much better anyways.

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2001 328 Vista

Previous Boats:
2004 Sea Ray 220 Select

NOAA on the VHF or any of the other 4-5 radios in the truck, boat, etc.

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Mike
2005 Four Winns 230/240
VP 5.7GXi/DP
1998 F-150 XLT
Boat Pic

foreflight, It is an app on the ipad and iphone. It's actually designed for pilots but has great weather information that is current.

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Askieffer
2009 SL242

NOAA on the VHF, Weather Channel and Weather Underground (I really like weather undergrounds radar) on the Black Berry. If that all fails, I just sit on beach in chair and look up

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2000 248 5.7L DP
'92, '94 SXI 750, '08 STX 15F, '12 Ultra LX 300
Videos

WeatherChannel and Accuweather apps for iPhone are pretty decent. Only drawback is that the data network surrounding my home lake is slow and sometimes unreliable.

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Paul
2007 Four Winns Horizon 220
Mercruiser 350 Mag MPI w/ Bravo III Drive
2004 Ford Explorer Limited (V8-AWD)
Pomme de Terre Lake (Southwest Missouri)

I use weatherbug for my ipad. NOAA for wave heights on Lake Michigan.

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Michael Bova


"Swept Aweigh"
2003 Four Winns 328 Vista

Previous Boat
2003 Crownline 230CCR

Is there an app that will improve the weather here, so I can actually use the boat?

Graham

It's pretty rainy there I imagine?



-Tom

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2005 Four Winns 268 Vista

Tom,

Not so much the rain ( torrential downpours where I live for the last 2 days, but still a ban on using hosepipes as the reservoir levels are low, even though our local area water comes from a deep well!). It's the wind. Spent 10 days near the boat earlier in June, all day sunshine but only got out on the last day (out of desperation) because it had been F5 - 7, gusting to 8-9 all the time we were there.

Graham

Graham, that sucks! Hope it gets better for you in the coming months...

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2005 Four Winns 268 Vista