Sailing-App for Fenix 3 with BlueChart-Connection

Could garmin stop any sail app just to not impact the quatix sales?
It would be really frustraiting having already bought the watch!

Garmin won't prevent developers from creating and publishing a sailing-related app to the app store for fear that it would impact sales of the Quatix. That's just not the way we want to do things. The only submission policies in place prevent offensive material or trademarked/copyrighted material. If someone comes up with some amazingly useful sailing app on their own and decides to upload it to the app store, we will gladly approve it so it is available to everyone.

You can already see that we have been working to bring in features via Connect IQ that may have appeared to have been omitted from the Fenix 3, like the Hunt & Fish app and the Sun & Moon app. The plan has always been to re-implement these features with Connect IQ, which gives us the chance to enhance the features and make these apps available on other products. We did not and will not reject similar app submissions, like the excellent, user-created Sunrise/Sunset Widget. I don't know of any specific plans, but I know that various teams here at Garmin, such as the marine and aviation teams, are interested in what Connect IQ has to offer.

Garmin won't prevent developers from creating and publishing a sailing-related app to the app store for fear that it would impact sales of the Quatix. That's just not the way we want to do things. The only submission policies in place prevent offensive material or trademarked/copyrighted material. If someone comes up with some amazingly useful sailing app on their own and decides to upload it to the app store, we will gladly approve it so it is available to everyone.

You can already see that we have been working to bring in features via Connect IQ that may have appeared to have been omitted from the Fenix 3, like the Hunt & Fish app and the Sun & Moon app. The plan has always been to re-implement these features with Connect IQ, which gives us the chance to enhance the features and make these apps available on other products. We did not and will not reject similar app submissions, like the excellent, user-created Sunrise/Sunset Widget. I don't know of any specific plans, but I know that various teams here at Garmin, such as the marine and aviation teams, are interested in what Connect IQ has to offer.

yes but it really would not difficult for garmin to add marine preferences in the watch Fenix3 as you did with the foretrex 401 or virB
thanks for all:)

I would be very happy if someone made a Fenix app with some of the quatix racing functions: Registering the positions of the start line, continuously show distance to start line, then start a five minute countdown and show the distance to start line and time to burn. After the countdown start a timer and show speed and heading. Option to restart the timer for the same start line in case of a recall. Tack assist and the like are a bit harder to make, but possible.

My understanding is that Garmin for marketing reasons wants to keep the Quatix and Fenix worlds apart. IMHO a bad approach, since no one would ever buy both watches. Garmin told me there were no immediate plans for a quatix update, so I bought a Fenix 3. It has all the hardware of the Quatix and more. I guess the absence of quatix functionality somehow gives the Fenix 3 a simpler user interface (one less menu item) and a clearly defined customer group, but as a sailor and runner I'm highly frustrated...

I have asked Garmin if they will let Fenix 3 receive data from the GNT-10 ANT channel, which would be required in order to display data from Garmin/NMEA boat systems. Very unclear answer, so this may or may not happen.

How do you establish the starting line in the app? Two GPS points? Or?

"Distance to start line" is that the distance to the nearest point of the start line or to the centre point of the line?

How do you establish the starting line in the app? Two GPS points? Or?

"Distance to start line" is that the distance to the nearest point of the start line or to the centre point of the line?

CIAO TONY,

start line has to be defined been close to two gps point (singolarly) pushing a bottom... actually defined by to GPS points....


"Distance to start line" need to be the distance to the nearest point of the start line.

I would be glad to help any developers with suggestions...

I have a Fenix 2 and now the new Fenix 3. I have Garmin Chartplotters on my boat but I am disappointed that Garmin chooses to keep the Tide/Sail features on an old generation watch that's made specifically for Mariners.

Given today's tech advancements and all the device/feature integration, I doubt if anyone will wear a watch just for One purpose. I would just pull out my iPhone for the charts instead of replacing my Fenix 3 with a Quatix. It does not make sense from the Marketing perspective either.

Garmin is a Professional Key Player in the Marine sector and so as the Sports market, combining the two by simply building a Tide Widget would blow the competition away.

I totally agree, this is a missed opportunity for Garmin.
The technology is very close, looking at the Garmin GNT 10 NMEA 2000 Transceiver: This gathers all NMEA data and tranfers it to the Fenix 3 with the ANT network.
We only need some apps for the Fenix 3....
Please help us sailors ( there are many of us!)

i totally agree, this is a missed opportunity for garmin.
The technology is very close, looking at the garmin gnt 10 nmea 2000 transceiver: This gathers all nmea data and tranfers it to the fenix 3 with the ant network.
We only need some apps for the fenix 3....
Please help us sailors ( there are many of us!)

or general seeting "marine" ! Thanks garmin

i would love to see some features for sailing as well

I have several sports including sailing, Kayaking and biking. The Fenix 3 is the obvious choice for a multi-function watch for someone with a wide interest in sports. The obvious missing function is a sailing function with a countdown timer and a starting function. There is a huge market for a watch that would allow customization for the functions of the user. I am not interested in a single function watch like the Quatix, too many functions that I would never use such as autopilot function. I agree with the others in this thread that a sailing app would be a fantastic addition to the watch.

It has been about a month since the last activity on this thread. I just wanted to voice my support for a sailing app for the Fenix 3 and to see if anyone has heard anything new on the subject. As others have stated, I would never consider buying a second expensive watch solely for sailing. I love my Fenix 3, and look forward to using it with sailing specific functions (app/data field/watchface/etc)! If the right app even cost $10-20 I'd go for it.