Reviews for Savvy Navvy Boating Navigation

I can reluctantly accept signing up and committing to pay in order to try the package, but then to find the price does not include downloading charts was a surprise. Frankly, it feels like a simple marketing ploy and starts off on a poor footing - never really knowing how much this is costing. If you're new to this, it's probably fine, but I already have bought into Navionics and Memory Map, so not prepared to keep increasing costs. If it were fixed at, say, less than £40 per year I'd persist.

I tested the full version with everything. Savvy Navvy appears fine when you first start it. However it's not great. Firstly the course to steer often takes you a strange route that you wouldn't want to go. The depth data in rivers is too far a part to be useful. i.e. lots of -3 and -2.8 but doesn't show the channel at 0. So I nearly ran a ground - was basically useless in rivers and had to sail but my depth meter and normal charts. The wind data is wrong. it doesn't easily allow you to steer a course. it keeps wanting to go from where you set the app up. I couldn't get it to do a normal turn by turn, run of the route as I was travelling it. I could preview it but not just do it. So it kept on jumping backwards to the start which was annoying. . It looks great, but is not useful. I'm still looking for a good nav app. If you decide to vary from the suggested route, it won't work out how to get to your destination from here without re-setting everything. It's just not very user friendly. for the money it's seriously not worth it. It doesn't do enough of the basics well enough to be useful.

I like the App but there are flaws. The first uploaded App worked fine but then stopped recording on the second day out on the water. So, I reinstalled the App and the layout has changed. Not for the better, I should add. It's now not showing estimated fuel consumption, which was useful, especially when you're burning a litre a minute. If I was the CEO of this company, I would get the development team around a table and have a one way conversation with them.

Saved us when our chart plotter failed. We were bringing our boat home when the engine started smoking and we had to shut it down. The wind picked up and we were able to sail, but we can't short-tack our boat in the proximity of many islands in Clew Bay. I was able to sail using the app and get close enough to the inner Bay to where a friend rescued us with a tow. Thanks Savvy Navvy. There are a few things that can be refined but overall, I appreciated having the reliable backup.

I do the passage planning conventionally using weather apps, charts and pilot books. My wife then checks the route on savvy navvy to see if there is reasonable agreement. This works well and catches issues with the app and errors in my calculations.

find it hard to pin my waypoints and zoom in and out, it's a bit clunky but it is my first few hours of using the app

There is no mode for steering, with a COG display, without a plotted route. There is no mode for providing your own plotted route - the app always calculates it for you. You have to plot a route first before setting the start time. Finally & this makes the app, IMO, useless, saved routes cannot be used because the app sits indefinitely plotting the route. It's almost like whoever wrote this app has never navigated on the sea...

I am trying to delete my trial membership. it directs me to a page called membership but the page will never finish loading so I may not hit the cancel button. all the other pages on the app open just fine except for this one to cancel and you get the spinning Circle of of death.

Update: I also wish the navigation would take into account boat type. As a kayaker, the navigation does not take the most direct route I assume to account for a larger boat overall this all works pretty well! Managing routes is a little finicky. I would also love to have visibility information in the weather section.

I have just started a 3day trial period. i heard a lot of good things about SN. However, I struggle to plot a route, but it is not easy, or even impossible. Here is my situation. I am now based in Antwerp. I want to plot a route from Canet-en-Roussillon (France) to Toulon (France). The app tells me to select a starting point. When I select Canet-en-Roussillon as starting point, that point becomes the destination point, and Anwerp is my starting point now. How is that possible? Frustrating!