Information about your boat, Alarms – Garmin GPSMAP 5215 User Manual

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4000/5000 Series Owner’s Manual

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Device Configuration

Information about Your Boat

Calibrating a Water Speed Device

If you have a speed-sensing transducer, you can calibrate that speed-sensing device.
1. From the Home screen, select Configure > My Boat > Calibrate Water Speed.
2. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Note: If the boat is not moving fast enough or the speed sensor is not registering a speed, a “Speed too

low” message appears. Select oK, and safely increase the boat speed. If the message appears again, stop

the boat and ensure that the speed-sensor wheel is not stuck. If the wheel turns freely, check the cable

connections. If you continue to get the message, contact Garmin Product Support.

Setting the Fuel Capacity of Your Boat

1. From the Home screen, select Configure > My Boat > Fuel Capacity.
2. Enter the combined fuel capacity of all the tanks on your boat:
3. Select Done.

Alarms

By default, all alarms are turned off except the destination and weather alarms. The chartplotter must be on for

the alarms to work.

Navigation Alarms

Setting an Arrival Alarm

You can set an alarm to sound when you are within a specified distance or time from a turn or destination

waypoint.
1. From the Home screen, select Configure > Alarms > Navigation > Arrival.
2. Complete an action:

• Select type. Indicate whether you want arrival alarms to sound only when nearing Destinations, or

when nearing Destinations and turns.

• Select Activation. Indicate whether the arrival alarm triggers based on time to arrival or based on

Distance to arrival.

3. Complete an action:

• Select Change time (if activation is set to time) to indicate how long before arrival (in minutes) the

alarm should sound. Enter the time. Select Done.

• Select Change Distance (if activation is set to Distance) to indicate how far before arrival (in units of

distance) the alarm should sound. Enter the distance. Select Done.

Setting the Anchor Drag Alarm

You can set an alarm to sound when you exceed a specified drift distance while anchored.
1. From the Home screen, select Configure > Alarms > Navigation > Anchor Drag > on.
2. Enter the drift distance that triggers the alarm.
3. Select Done.

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