When that rigs snapped dropped, and the sail started filling up with water, and the boat started

to crank over, in my mind, I'm like, okay, it's going to level out. The weight of the water and

the sails and the boat listing, like, they're going to find a happy medium. We're okay.

And then when water started coming over to combing and into the cockpit, it was clear that we were not going

to be okay, we were going to sink.

On the wind is presented by Orca, Navigation for the Modern Boater.

We've always used tablets for navigation on Isbion, and they have been great for a number of

reasons.

But iPads were never designed to live on the ocean.

To make them work for navigation,

you need to work your way around or accept a few issues. All of these problems have now been solved

by Orca. They just sent me an Orca display too, and it's a waterproof navigation tablet tailor-made

for sailing.

Its screen brightness range is amazing.

It could charge wirelessly with a charging mount that can be installed anywhere,

and it can operate in colder and hotter temperatures than regular tablets.

Also, it has physical buttons, yes, so you can actually use it with mittens in the cold

or when the screen is covered in water.

The charts and navigation is excellent, intuitive use with weather routing built in.

You can even test out the Orca app on your phone or tablet for free before investing in the display itself.

But what makes ORCA really great is the ORCA core, which is a small antenna, compass hub about

the size of a fist.

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