B&G Deckman - Manual (Page 32)

Selecting a route
3.5
reference points on the plot—rocks and positions marking channels for
example. Sometimes it is useful to make one of these marks a mark of
the course because then you can relate laylines to that point and these
will help in making tactical decisions regarding the course to sail.
To create a route select menu>waypoints>make route or click on the
icon (shown left) on the tool bar. When you open the display you see the
names of all the waypoint areas and below a list of waypoints in the area
selected; click the arrows next to the name to move to a new sector. You
can alter the order in which the waypoints appear: clicking on sorted
will display the waypoints alphabetically, whilst unsorted will show
them in the order they were entered—useful if this is the order they will
be needed in a particular race.
To make a route click on the waypoints from the lists in the order of the
course beginning with the start mark. Those selected will then be
displayed in the Route box on the right of the window; highlight in the
Route box and click delete to remove. Also shown will be a letter P or S
indicating the direction of rounding—highlight a waypoint and click
switch rnd to change this. If the start and finish are the same you do not
need to select the finish because Deckman treats routes as circular: when
it gets to the end it goes back to the beginning again.
The first sector in the list, Triangle, is a special list: in many races you
have a triangular course, or some marks which will be set by the
committee—almost certainly a leeward mark at the start, and often an
initial windward mark—and to make it easy to set up triangular courses
Deckman has special facilities to set a wing mark and a mark half way
up the windward leg by simply specifying the range and bearing of the
windward mark from the leeward mark. In addition, the positions of
each end of the start line (see Setting the start on page 4.3) are stored in
this sector so you can use these as marks of the course.
Note. Do not remove the Triangle sector from the list.