Cap, I tried this "Go To" and "Engage" on my new Garmin... the boat turned Hard Left, very hard left and the boat traveled to the Magenta line, but, bypassed the line, kinda straightened out and the started following the magenta line but to the left of the line... the Magenta line was in the center of the river channel I was in... and the boat was left of the magenta line and in the way of the upriver oncoming traffic so I had to stop the Auto Pilot feature... Is there a trick to turning less sharply onto the Majenta line? Many thanks... I love your videos as you take the time to explain to newbies like me... and the other Garmin how-to videos online do not. Great work.
so there are a couple things here. the magenta line will be created the second that you engage the auto pilot but the boat wont necessarily navigate down the magenta line. you might have a better chance of steering the boat on the magenta line than the GPS but you would literally have to be facing the perfect direction that you needed to go. the GPS will automatically create a second line which is black that goes from the bow of the boat icon to the destination that you want to travel to. think of the magenta line as a line from the moment you set the autopilot to your destination. if you were traveling in an area with no wind, light current and no waves it might travel close to it but so many factors will push your boat around while you are navigating and it wont stay perfectly on the line. the other thing with the auto pilot is that it has no idea if there is on-coming boat traffic or if you need to navigate within a channel to your starboard side. it is just going to navigate towards the destination which could make it dangerous to use in channels or in heavy boat traffic. think of it like cruise control on your car. it is just going to keep you going to where you selected. Now there is a function called auto guidance that will navigate the boat through the safest path based on the depth of water for your boat. This will turn the boat and make sure you don't run aground based on water depth but they still don't have a system that can go around boat traffic. you still have to be monitoring all of your surroundings with the auto pilot to ensure safety. If you want to check out the video for the auto guidance, the link is below. th-cam.com/video/IY4ZjB0VVEk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=fU101eKvqPC1MNeN Sorry for the long response, hope it answers your question. Thanks for the support!
Hey Capt. Love your channel. Do you know what would cause my boat icon to track differently since installing my AP. It seems to dog track across the screen of center
So this sounds like a major issue that I had on my boat. My boat icon on the screen was going almost sideways. This is because the heading sensor thinks you are going in a different direction. I spent months trying to resolve this issue and this issue is what led us to make these videos to help people. Check out a video that I have in my playlist for the Garmin electronics for the diagnostic. This walks you through checking the magnetic interference on your heading sensor based on its current location. The score is from 0-100 with 100 being the best. You will never get to 100 because we have things in the boats that give it interference but it should be as close as possible. If you have a low score, you will want to relocate the heading sensor to a spot away from metals and batteries to raise the score. Once you move it, you will need to complete the set up wizard in the water. We also have a video on that in the Garmin playlist. Once we did this on our boat and completed the sea trial calibration, everything went back to normal and works perfectly fine. It sounds like this might be your issue.
I cannot believe I did not know this. You would think Garmin would have this somewhere in a tutorial?????? Thank you very much!
Glad it was helpful and thank you for the support!
Cap, I tried this "Go To" and "Engage" on my new Garmin... the boat turned Hard Left, very hard left and the boat traveled to the Magenta line, but, bypassed the line, kinda straightened out and the started following the magenta line but to the left of the line... the Magenta line was in the center of the river channel I was in... and the boat was left of the magenta line and in the way of the upriver oncoming traffic so I had to stop the Auto Pilot feature... Is there a trick to turning less sharply onto the Majenta line?
Many thanks... I love your videos as you take the time to explain to newbies like me... and the other Garmin how-to videos online do not. Great work.
so there are a couple things here. the magenta line will be created the second that you engage the auto pilot but the boat wont necessarily navigate down the magenta line. you might have a better chance of steering the boat on the magenta line than the GPS but you would literally have to be facing the perfect direction that you needed to go.
the GPS will automatically create a second line which is black that goes from the bow of the boat icon to the destination that you want to travel to.
think of the magenta line as a line from the moment you set the autopilot to your destination. if you were traveling in an area with no wind, light current and no waves it might travel close to it but so many factors will push your boat around while you are navigating and it wont stay perfectly on the line.
the other thing with the auto pilot is that it has no idea if there is on-coming boat traffic or if you need to navigate within a channel to your starboard side. it is just going to navigate towards the destination which could make it dangerous to use in channels or in heavy boat traffic.
think of it like cruise control on your car. it is just going to keep you going to where you selected.
Now there is a function called auto guidance that will navigate the boat through the safest path based on the depth of water for your boat. This will turn the boat and make sure you don't run aground based on water depth but they still don't have a system that can go around boat traffic.
you still have to be monitoring all of your surroundings with the auto pilot to ensure safety.
If you want to check out the video for the auto guidance, the link is below.
th-cam.com/video/IY4ZjB0VVEk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=fU101eKvqPC1MNeN
Sorry for the long response, hope it answers your question. Thanks for the support!
Thank you !!
@eastcoast5936 you are welcome!
Hey Capt.
Love your channel. Do you know what would cause my boat icon to track differently since installing my AP. It seems to dog track across the screen of center
So this sounds like a major issue that I had on my boat. My boat icon on the screen was going almost sideways. This is because the heading sensor thinks you are going in a different direction.
I spent months trying to resolve this issue and this issue is what led us to make these videos to help people. Check out a video that I have in my playlist for the Garmin electronics for the diagnostic. This walks you through checking the magnetic interference on your heading sensor based on its current location. The score is from 0-100 with 100 being the best. You will never get to 100 because we have things in the boats that give it interference but it should be as close as possible. If you have a low score, you will want to relocate the heading sensor to a spot away from metals and batteries to raise the score. Once you move it, you will need to complete the set up wizard in the water. We also have a video on that in the Garmin playlist.
Once we did this on our boat and completed the sea trial calibration, everything went back to normal and works perfectly fine.
It sounds like this might be your issue.