Displaying a boat on the chart, Going to a boat, Creating a waypoint – NorthStar Navigation EXPLORER 657 User Manual

Page 58: Editing a waypoint, Deleting a boat, Deleting all boats, 2 using the displays, Boat positions

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Northstar Explorer 657 Installation and Operation Manual

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Displaying a boat on the chart

1 Press or

to select a boat.

2 Press

and select Display. The 657

switches to chart window, with the selected
boat position in the middle (see Boat
positions above).

Going to a boat

1 Press or

to select a boat.

2 Press

and select Goto. The 657 starts

navigating to the boat’s position (see Boat
positions above).

Creating a waypoint

Polled and buddy track boats are not waypoints.
To create a waypoint at the position of a polled
boat (see Boat positions above):

1 Press or

to select a boat.

2 Press

and select Create

waypoint. Edit the waypoint data if
required (see section 5-2-7).

Editing a waypoint

A distress message creates a waypoint for the
boat or you can create a waypoint at a polled
boat’s position. To change the data of these
waypoints:

1 Press or

to select a boat.

2 Press

and select Edit waypoint.

Edit the waypoint data if required (see section
5-2-7).

Deleting a boat

At the Distress or Poll displays:

1 Press or

to select a boat.

2 Press

and select Delete. The boat

is deleted from that display. Delete any boat
waypoint manually (see section 5-2-5).

Buddy track boats automatically disappear from
the Buddy track window when your DSC radio
can not pick up their signal.

Deleting all boats

At the Distress or Poll displays:

1 Press or

to select a boat.

2 Press

and select Delete all. All

boats are deleted from that display and any
boat waypoints are deleted.

16-2 Using the displays

On a chart window:

A Distress boats are distress waypoints

B Buddy track boats are buddy symbols

A

B

Boat positions

The boat positions on the 657 can differ from the
true boat positions:

Distress: The position is the distress waypoint,
which is where the boat was when it sent the
distress message.

Polled boats: The position is where the boat
was when you last polled the boat.

Buddy track: The position is where the boat
was when your radio last polled the boat.

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