I’m in the market for a new chartplotter.will be used primarily for racing. Looking at B&G, Raymarine and Garnin. Your thoughts?
A chartplotter for racing.I’m in the market for a new chartplotter will be used primarily for racing. Looking at B&G, Raymarine and Garnin. Your thoughts?
Sounds like you lost the calibration for your compass while you were working on the radio. There should be a way to go back through the calibration procedure via a menu in your plotter. Once you go into that menu you'll need to drive around in a couple of slow circles so try to do it on a calm quiet day. Having the compass miscalibrated would cause the heading and layline issues your seeing. On mine the laylines automatically switch between upwind and downwind mode when I transition across 90 degrees true wind angle. Before you recalibrate just check that you didn't put a new toolbox or something next to the compass.Now, the boat symbol points in a lot of different directions but never in the direction I'm going and the tracking isn't on. Also the lay lines are always out of whack. It seems to show upwind laylines at 90 degrees and downwind lines that are maybe only 20 degrees apart, but I can't make any sense as to why it switches back and forth and never seems to correspond to the direction I'm going.
That's a good point and a worthwhile consideration when getting a new plotter. We really liked the charts that came with our first gen Simrad NSS8. Unfortunately the newer charts with the Zeus 3 aren't as nice for us. We use an old Navionics card that we had laying around, and bought the upgraded Insight charts on sale this spring. If you find a plotter that has charts you like out of the box it's a couple hundred dollar savings.I'm not crazy about the chart that comes installed with the chartplotter. I seem to like navionics more and I'm familiar with it on my phone. I've been planning to buy it for the chartplotter.
That's what I'm thinking (and hoping!)(With apologies for the thread drift...)
For your radio connectivity issues, check in the settings on the radio itself. There should be an option to select either NMEA 0183 or 2000. It's probably on the wrong one by default.