Magellan eXplorist XL - Manual (Page 21)

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Introduction to Routes
A route is a planned course of travel defined by a series of waypoints. To
create a route, you select waypoints that you have stored in the receiver’s
memory. These waypoints are then connected to form the segments or
“legs” of the route. A route may contain from one to fifteen legs.
Suppose you were on a fishing trip in the area shown below. You want to
go from the dock to the bait shop, then across to the inlet on the island.
Before you start, turn the receiver on and let it get a position fix. Once
you have a fix, save it as a waypoint. That way you’ll be able to create a
route back to the dock at the end of the day, even if darkness or weather
conditions (cloud cover, rain, etc.) make it difficult to use your own
navigation skills.
In addition, you can instantly create a one-leg route called a GOTO. This
route uses your present position as its start and any waypoint you select
that you have saved in memory as the destination. The following will
show you how simple it is to create a GOTO route. In this example we
have stored a waypoint in memory and named it " JETTY."