How To Stay Safe Using Chart Plotter Routes | Ep. 128
If you are navigating through a tricky area, you can do so most safely by creating and following a route on your chart plotter. In this video, I walk you through step-by-step on how to create a navigational route on your chartplotter, or multifunction display (MFD). I use the Raymarine Axiom MFD in this example, but other models and brands are similiar. I explain how to create the waypoints that form the route and how to ensure the route is a safe one for your sailing or powerboating needs, using actual footage onboard our boat Sea Rose. It can be tricky while you are underway to constantly check the chartplotter for obstacles and shallows. Building a route ahead of time relieves you of this stress and allows you to enjoy the other parts of being on the water.
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Chapters:
0:00 How to Stay Safe Using Chartplotter Routes
0:45 Building The Route
3:32 Undoing A Mistake
3:49 Finishing and Following A Route
5:19 Final Review and Adjustments
6:01 Show/Hide Routes
8:46 Following A Route-For Real!
10:50 Naming a Route, Other Options
11:54 Starting, Stopping A Route
14:08 Helpful to Powerboaters, Sailors
15:25 Changing the Arrival Radius
16:40 Skipping A Waypoint
Music credits:
Broken Water (Instrumental Version) by Craig Reever
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The importance of reviewing the route while zoomed in enough to show all dangers cannot be overstated. It is easy to overlook an isolated shoal rock or even a navigation buoy.
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Yes - this is key! It is one of the reasons we love using routes. You can zoom out to make sure you have the big picture of where you’re going but then do a deep dive on the details before you even head out on the route.