Boat icon pop-over options

The boat icon pop-over options provide access to boat-related settings.

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From the boat icon pop-over options you can:

  • Start or stop recording a track, by selecting Start/track / Stop track.

  • Change the boat symbol’s position, by selecting a Boat position option.

  • Change the symbol used to represent your boat, by selecting a Boat symbol option.

  • Show or hide boat heading vector line, by ticking or unticking the Heading tick box. By default, the heading vector length is determined using STW (Speed Through Water) received from a speed transducer; you can use SOG instead by enabling the Use SOG for hdg vector length from the Advanced settings menu: Menu > Settings > Advanced.

  • Show or hide boat COG vector line by ticking or unticking the COG tick box.

  • Use infinite or reference period line length for vectors by ticking or unticking the Infinite vectors tick box.

  • View your own boat’s AIS data by selecting View my AIS data.

  • Set the length of vectors when not using Infinite vectors by selecting a Reference period option. Vector length is measured in minutes and shows your expected position after the selected time has elapsed.

  • Show or hide range rings around your boat by ticking or unticking the Rng rings tick box.

  • Show or hide the tide vector graphic by ticking or unticking the Tide tick box.

  • Show or hide the wind vector graphic by ticking or unticking the Wind tick box.

  • Show or hide layline graphics by ticking or unticking the Laylines tick box. The Laylines option is only available when your MFD has been configured using the Sailing boat activity.

  • Show or hide the Fuel range ring (for Combustion engines) or Battery range ring (for Electric motors).

Note

In weather mode and fishmapping mode, the only option available is Start/track / Stop track.

Chart mode-specific behavior

Depending on the chart mode in use, some options are enabled by default:

  • Tides mode — Heading, COG and Tide.

  • Anchor mode — COG, Tide and Wind.

  • Racing mode — Heading, COG, Tide, Wind and Laylines.

  • Navigate mode — Laylines, when your MFD has been configured using the Sailing boat activity.

Boat pop-over options are saved for each chart mode in the current chart app instance.