Navigation App Review: Savvy Navvy

If you're ready for a navigation app upgrade, and willing to learn the new ropes, Savvy Navvy offers a wealth of helpful features for the tech-savvy sailor.

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Savvy Navvy anchor alarm display.
Savvy Navvy anchor alarm display.

When Savvy Navvy navigation app asked me to review the app and share my impressions, I was curious enough to do a little background research before accepting. From the onset, the reviews I read were not that great—there were many negative comments. But because I’ve worked in software for most of my career, I know how new programs can have growing pains.

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Marc caught his love of sailing and all things water from his father from a very young age. He has owned many sailboats in his 40+ years of sailing. An avid do-it-yourselfer and handyman, he builds, modifies, improves and executes all his own repairs. He also enjoys testing, documenting & sharing products and how-to methods with other sailors and boaters. Posting many how to videos on his YouTube channel and Facebook page. He is a member of the Canadian Power and Sail Squadron. Currently, he sails his Catalina 270, Aquaholic 3, out of the Ile-Perrot Yacht Club in Montreal, where Marc spent 16 years as Harbour Master. He is also a regular bareboat yacht charterer, having sailed most of the Caribbean islands. In the winter months, Marc regularly hand builds exact scale models of friends’ boats to give them away in the spring.

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  1. ANOTHER SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE! Once you spend the time to learn how to use all these details it is still going to cost you $80 to $150/year to keep it. Doesn’t any software maker sell ownership anymore? Forget it! I’ll keep using the software I bought 11 years ago and still happy with.

  2. If you stay and navigate your well known waters, I can agree. However, if exploring new or lesser known waters, having updated charts in essential.

    Thanks for your comments and for reading Practical Sailor.

    • Hi Benjamin, thanks for being a PS reader. And yes I did use the polars and routing. Plus the short video tutorials are all the functions are really well made. You just have to make sure you enter the right boat details.