User manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Customizing the Chartplotter
- Home Screen
- Customizing Pages
- Presets
- Setting the Vessel Type
- Adjusting the Backlight
- Adjusting the Color Mode
- Turning On the Chartplotter Automatically
- Enabling Screen Lock
- Automatically Turning Off the System
- ActiveCaptain App
- Communication with Wireless Devices
- Charts and 3D Chart Views
- Navigation Chart and Fishing Chart
- Premium Charts
- Automatic Identification System
- Chart Menu
- Supported Maps
- Garmin Quickdraw Contours Mapping
- Mapping a Body of Water Using the Garmin Quickdraw Contours Feature
- Adding a Label to a Garmin Quickdraw Contours Map
- Garmin Quickdraw Community
- Garmin Quickdraw Contours Settings
- Navigation with a Chartplotter
- Basic Navigation Questions
- Destinations
- Waypoints
- Marking Your Present Location as a Waypoint
- Creating a Waypoint at a Different Location
- Marking an SOS Location
- Projecting a Waypoint
- Viewing a List of all Waypoints
- Editing a Saved Waypoint
- Moving a Saved Waypoint
- Browsing for and Navigating to a Saved Waypoint
- Deleting a Waypoint or an MOB
- Deleting All Waypoints
- Routes
- Creating and Navigating a Route From Your Present Location
- Creating and Saving a Route
- Viewing a List of Routes and Auto Guidance Paths
- Editing a Saved Route
- Browsing for and Navigating a Saved Route
- Browsing for and Navigating Parallel to a Saved Route
- Initiating a Search Pattern
- Deleting a Saved Route
- Deleting All Saved Routes
- Auto Guidance
- Tracks
- Showing Tracks
- Setting the Color of the Active Track
- Saving the Active Track
- Viewing a List of Saved Tracks
- Editing a Saved Track
- Saving a Track as a Route
- Browsing for and Navigating a Recorded Track
- Deleting a Saved Track
- Deleting All Saved Tracks
- Retracing the Active Track
- Clearing the Active Track
- Managing the Track Log Memory During Recording
- Configuring the Recording Interval of the Track Log
- Boundaries
- Deleting All Saved Waypoints, Tracks, Routes, and Boundaries
- Sailing Features
- Sonar Fishfinder
- Stopping the Transmission of Sonar Signals
- Changing the Sonar View
- Traditional Sonar View
- Garmin ClearVü Sonar View
- SideVü Sonar View
- Panoptix Sonar Views
- Selecting the Transducer Type
- Selecting a Sonar Source
- Creating a Waypoint on the Sonar Screen
- Pausing the Sonar Display
- Viewing Sonar History
- Sonar Sharing
- Adjusting the Level of Detail
- Adjusting the Color Intensity
- Sonar Recordings
- Traditional, Garmin ClearVü, and SideVü Sonar Setup
- Setting the Zoom Level on the Sonar Screen
- Setting the Scroll Speed
- Adjusting the Range of the Depth or Width Scale
- Sonar Noise Rejection Settings
- Sonar Appearance Settings
- Sonar Alarms
- Advanced Sonar Settings
- Traditional, Garmin ClearVü, and SideVü Transducer Installation Settings
- Sonar Frequencies
- Turning On the A-Scope
- Panoptix Sonar Setup
- Zooming in a Panoptix LiveVü or LiveScope Sonar View
- Adjusting the RealVü Viewing Angle and Zoom Level
- Adjusting the RealVü Sweep Speed
- LiveVü Forward and FrontVü Sonar Menu
- LiveVü and FrontVü Appearance Settings
- RealVü Appearance Settings
- LiveScope and Perspective Sonar Menu
- LiveScope and Perspective Sonar Setup
- LiveScope and Perspective Appearance Settings
- Panoptix Transducer Installation Settings
- Radar
- Radar Interpretation
- Transmitting Radar Signals
- Adjusting the Radar Range
- MotionScope™ Doppler Radar Technology
- Enabling a Guard Zone
- MARPA
- Echo Trails
- Radar Settings
- Selecting a Different Radar Source
- Changing the Radar Mode
- Autopilot
- Force® Trolling Motor Control
- Digital Selective Calling
- Gauges and Graphs
- inReach® Messages
- Digital Switching
- Dometic® Optimus® Features
- Tide, Current, and Celestial Information
- Warning Manager
- Media Player
- Opening the Media Player
- Selecting the Media Device and Source
- Playing Music
- Adjusting the Volume
- VHF Radio
- Radio
- DAB Playback
- SiriusXM Satellite Radio
- Setting the Device Name
- Updating the Media Player Software
- SiriusXM Weather
- SiriusXM Equipment and Subscription Requirements
- Weather Data Broadcasts
- Weather Warnings and Weather Bulletins
- Changing the Weather Chart
- Viewing Precipitation Information
- Forecast Information
- Viewing Fish Mapping Data
- Viewing Sea Conditions
- Viewing Sea Temperature Information
- Visibility Information
- Viewing Buoy Reports
- Weather Overlay
- Viewing Weather Subscription Information
- Viewing Video
- Selecting a Video Source
- Networked Video Devices
- Configuring the Video Appearance
- Garmin VIRB® Action Cameras
- HDMI Out Video Considerations
- Pairing the GC™ 100 Camera with a Garmin Chartplotter
- Device Configuration
- Sharing and Managing User Data
- Appendix
- Index
3
If necessary, select Done.
Enabling the Gybe Inhibitor
NOTE: The gybe inhibitor does not prevent you from manually
performing a gybe using the helm or step steering.
The gybe inhibitor prevents the autopilot from performing a
gybe.
1
From the autopilot screen, select Menu > Autopilot Setup >
Sailing Setup > Gybe Inhibitor.
2
Select Enabled.
Heading Line and Angle Markers
The heading line is an extension drawn on the map from the
bow of the boat in the direction of travel. Angle markers indicate
relative position from the heading or course over ground, which
are helpful for casting or finding reference points.
Setting the Heading Line and Angle Markers
The heading line is an extension drawn on the map from the
bow of the boat in the direction of travel. Angle markers indicate
relative position from the heading or course over ground, which
are helpful for casting or finding reference points.
You can show the heading line and the course over ground
(COG) line on the chart.
COG is your direction of movement. Heading is the direction the
bow of the boat is pointed, when a heading sensor is connected.
1
From a chart, select Menu > Layers > My Vessel > Heading
Line > Angle Markers.
2
If necessary, select Source, and select an option:
• To automatically use the available source, select Auto.
• To use the GPS antenna heading for COG, select GPS
Heading (COG).
• To use data from a connected heading sensor, select
North Reference.
• To use data from both a connected heading sensor and
the GPS antenna, select COG and Heading.
This displays both the heading line and the COG line on
the chart.
3
Select Display, and select an option:
• Select Distance > Distance, and enter the length of the
line shown on the chart.
• Select Time > Time, and enter the time used to calculate
the distance your boat will travel in the specified time at
your present speed.
Sonar Fishfinder
When properly connected to a transducer, your compatible
chartplotter can be used as a fishfinder. Chartplotter models
without an xsv or xs in their names require a Garmin sounder
module and transducer to display sonar information.
For more information about which transducer is best for your
needs, go to garmin.com/transducers.
Different sonar views can help you view the fish in the area. The
sonar views available vary depending on the type of transducer
and sounder module connected to the chartplotter. For example,
you can view certain Panoptix
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sonar screens only if you have a
compatible Panoptix transducer connected.
There are four basic styles of sonar views available: a full-
screen view, a split-screen view that combines two or more
views, a split-zoom view, and a split-frequency view that
displays two different frequencies. You can customize the
settings for each view in the screen. For example, if you are
viewing the split-frequency view, you can separately adjust the
gain for each frequency.
If you do not see an arrangement of sonar views to suit your
needs, you can create a custom combination screen (Creating a
New Combination Page, page 5) or a SmartMode layout (Adding
a SmartMode Layout, page 4).
Stopping the Transmission of Sonar Signals
• To disable the active sonar, from the sonar screen, select
Menu > Transmit.
• To disable all sonar transmissions, press , and select
Disable All Sonar Trans..
Changing the Sonar View
1
From a combination screen or SmartMode layout with sonar,
select the window to change.
2
Select Menu > Change Sonar.
3
Select a sonar view.
Traditional Sonar View
There are several full-screen views available, depending on the
transducer that is connected.
The full-screen Traditional sonar view shows a large image of
the sonar readings from a transducer. The range scale along the
right side of the screen shows the depth of detected objects as
the screen scrolls from the right to the left.
Depth information
Suspended targets or fish
Bottom of the body of water
Split-Frequency Sonar View
In the split-frequency sonar view, the two sides of the screen
show a full-view graph of sonar data of different frequencies.
NOTE: The split-frequency sonar view requires the use of a
dual-frequency transducer.
Split-Zoom Sonar View
The split-zoom sonar view shows a full-view graph of sonar
readings, and a magnified portion of that graph, on the same
screen.
Garmin ClearVü Sonar View
NOTE: To receive Garmin ClearVü scanning sonar, you need a
compatible chartplotter or fishfinder and a compatible
transducer. For information about compatible transducers, go to
garmin.com/transducers.
Garmin ClearVü high-frequency sonar provides a detailed
picture of the fishing environment around the boat in a detailed
representation of structures the boat is passing over.
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