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Charts ECDIS User Guide
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Tides/Currents
The Tides and Currents is an optional feature that enables stations to be
created that hold manually entered values for tide/sea current speed,
direction, and time. Each station can store up to 500 tide/sea current
entries.
Stations created and saved from any node are distributed to all nodes in
the system.
To open the Tides and Currents feature click on
Tides/Currents in the Charts menu. If no stations
are currently active the window will show zero
LAT/LON coordinates.
To create and save stations do the following:
1. Define a position for the station by clicking
in the LAT/LON data field, the text becomes
editable (green) and a drop down keypad appears.
To define the LAT/LON position:
i. Manually enter a LAT/LON position by using
the numbers and navigation buttons on the
keypad and click
OK .
ii. To place the station at a specific geographic
object select
Query . Move the cursor to the
display (a ? is added to the cursor) and left click,
a Pick Report window appears with a list of
objects in the immediate area. Select the object
from the list, the station is repositioned over the
chart object and a red circle filled with a red
shaded background is drawn around the station.
iii. Click OK on the Pick Report window to fix the
station at the chart object position.
iv. To place the waypoint at own ship's CCRP select Ownship .
v. To place the waypoint at a selected location on the chart display
select
From Chart . Move the cursor to the display (a ? is added to
the cursor) and left click at the required location, the station is
repositioned to that location.
vi. To specify a range or bearing for the station select Offset . An Offset
window appears where you can set a range and bearing offset from
the current position.