Planning a Trip
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To Plan a Trip

Steps:


1. Load the appropriate Marine charts for your trip. For instructions on loading Marine charts, please see Loading Marine Charts.

2. Follow the steps for Adding / Creating Waypoints in the Adding / Deleting Waypoints section of the manual.

3. Once you have selected a desired set of waypoints, select Marine->Plan/Edit Trip.

marinePlanEditTrip


4. In the Trip Planner Window, select the waypoints that you want to add to your trip and then click Add.

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Click on the Add button for each waypoint that you want to include in your Trip.


TripPlannerSelect
TripPlannerSelectAdded
Select from drop-down menu
After clicking on Add button


5. If you want to make changes to your trip, refer to section Editing a Trip. If you are satisfied with you Trip, click on the Save button.

6. A window will appear prompting you to name your Trip. After giving your Trip a name, click on the Save button.

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The extension for your Trip files are saved as nameGiven.trp. Your .trp files are by default located on your primary hard drive in the directory C:\Program Files\GPS\



7. After you save your Trip, you should see a green line on the screen. This green line is similar to the line that displays when you create a route in Street Navigation Mode.

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An example of a trip

8. If you want to make any changes to this Trip, you can refer to Editing a Trip section of this manual.