To honor the release, we’re dropping our price to $4.99 and we have stuffed Bombora 2 with tons of great new goodness!

To name a couple of the more salient upgrades:
• Beautiful new custom status icons
• Integrated map display with station data
• More stations and lots more forecasts
• Exciting under-the-hood updates
• Over-the-air content updates!!!

Under the hood, we’ve added some new plumbing and the ability to deliver over-the-air content. All of these developments make it easier for us to make Bombora better in the future.

The radical changes warrant a bold new version number like 2.0, and a whole assortment of new icons and information. Enjoy these preview shots from the upcoming release of Bombora 2.0!

For a complete list of buoys, stations, and forecasts available in Bombora 1.0.2, visit the Bombora 1.0.2. Station List.

This new version of Bombora contains approximately 50% more buoys than previously, bringing the total number up to about 225 stations and covering new areas such as the Great Lakes and introducing a number of internationally-owned stations. We’ve also included an additional four forecast products, as well.

Bombora 1.0.2 is a FREE update for all existing paid customers.

The NDBC has a vast network of stations that provide us with access to meteorological data. Weather instruments can be placed just about anywhere, so we see data not only from buoys, but from lighthouses, lightships, the tidal observation network, and more. Not all of the stations have a complete set of instrumentation, in fact, most of them only provide wind and atmospheric conditions, leaving out wave data. During the initial phase of development, our focus was restricted to stations that provided wave data; we sacrificed a number of them for the sake of completeness and presentation.

Now that Bombora’s been out for a while, we’ve heard from a number of sailors/ boaters who don’t only want wave data – so of course we want to include all that information…

What that means is that we’ve submitted a previously unplanned release of Bombora, with the existing interface, and with about 50% more buoys added to the “Buoys” tab. There are hundreds of more stations (not buoys) that provide non-wave data, and they will be included with the next version of Bombora.

Bombora 1.1 will be a pretty big update – work is already underway and it’s going to be an iPhone 3.0 required application – the enhancements to the platform are just too much for us to ignore. We’ll post some more info on Bombora 1.1 as it progresses and let the world know when Bombora 1.02 hits the App Store. All App Store updates are of course FREE to those who have purchased Bombora through iTunes.

We hope that this update will satisfy our customers’ desire for more data, while we continue to work to improve Bombora. Cheers.

This sale will run until the release of Bombora 1.1 in late May or early June, and for the first few days that Bombora 1.1 is in the App Store. Depending on what The Oracle says, the price will probably be raised back up to $9.99 at that time – Bombora 1.1 is a pretty big content update and it’s a great purchase at that price.

After the recent deluge of new users running a cracked and illegal copy of Bombora, we hope that dropping the price for this period of time will make it “more accessible” to those users that are not comfortable spending ten dollars for a comprehensive ocean forecasting app.

The Gonz Consortium’s pretty familiar with the App Store pricing tales of the App Cubby developers and we’re curious to try our own experiment, and look forward to sharing any insights that we may gain.

Be sure to check the iTunes App Store on Saturday for Bombora at it’s temporary sale price of $6.99!

We hope to have version 1.1 submitted to the App Store in late May, so if you have specific, constructive feedback that you’d like to pass our way, contact us now!

Work has commenced on Bombora 1.1, which will contain a large number of new buoys, some new marine text forecasts, and a healthy quantity of new Tidal Stations. We’ve heard the feedback clamoring for more stations (and we are eager to please,) so look for Bombora 1.1 in the coming weeks.