GPS Has anyone played with the auto routing option

[powerskipper]

I have been having a play and , well shall I say nice idea but needs work,
it does tell you when there a dangerous bit... sometimes, but not what's dangerous about it...... and then seems to be blind to drying heights,
Any one had a play with it. or dared to use it ...

 

[jrudge]

On Garmin ?

Last boat used it all the time.

Only snag is that even on the distant setting it took me too close to the headlands otherwise brilliant.

 

[Blue Sunray]

Used it occasionally (Garmin), not so much to navigate by (I'd rather input my own route), but I find useful if I don't want to draw up a complete route but would like, for instance, an approximate ETA.

 

[duncan99210]

I frequently use the automatic routing facility on the Navionics app on the iPad for passage planing: total distance, eta, fuel required and the like. But I don't use it to actually navigate. For a long trip, the Admiral will usually write out a route card with courses, distances and clearing bearings. We use the chart plotter to drop in waypoints as we go rather than a full route. So a useful tool but not one to navigate by.

 

[Mr Googler]

Use it on my simrad a lot. You have to make sure you in put boat spec I.e. draft etc...

It’s good but I have to go along every route and check waypoints. Very easy to shuffle them about on screen. Saves me a bit of leg work. Defo not a press and go solution though.

 

[Poignard]

I'm a novice when it comes to chart plotting, only having tried Navionics on a tablet for the first time this year, but I tried the auto-routing for a passage from L'Herbaudiere to the Vilaine and when I compared it (very carefully) with the manual route I had planned the auto route was the best of the two.

 

[jrudge]

I frequently use the automatic routing facility on the Navionics app on the iPad for passage planing: total distance, eta, fuel required and the like. But I don't use it to actually navigate. For a long trip, the Admiral will usually write out a route card with courses, distances and clearing bearings. We use the chart plotter to drop in waypoints as we go rather than a full route. So a useful tool but not one to navigate by.

Well done. I suspect you will find 99% of us the the plotter!

My view is I have a phone and iPad both with navionics and if all else fails given I am mallorca based I don't really need a plotter in mallorca and between the islands dead reckoning will get me there

The nice Garmin thing was click destination route and the. The auto helm takes you all the way. Raymarine ( I never bother with routes just goto ) makes you confirm every turn which is pretty irritating !

 

[rafiki_]

Brought me safely around Lands End from Brizzle tonTge Hamble. Also charted the route on paper, and waypoints on the chart plotter. However the Navionics auto route was primary.

 

[vas]

use it all the time and engage the autopilot straight away.
No tides/currents/et al down here, but as J says occasionally gets me too close for comfort to land. Especially where you get 20m water depths just 3-4m from shore (well mountains really dipping down)

V.

 

[benchmark]

I use it often too on Raymarine with Navionics. Just configure your boat specs and autoroute preferences and it does a good job of it.

 

[Dick Atcherley]

The 'guide to' function on my Garmin 820xs is pretty good, presupposing that you have programmed in the parameters of your boat. I've always checked the routing against a chart, and it has been pretty good. I also think that it routes you a bit close to headlands for comfort...

 

[powerskipper]

Are you using it for Port to Port , so mostly open water. I was playing with it to take me into Bembridge visitor pontoon . To outer marker it was ok , but entry into was suspect.

 

[RupertW]

I use Navionics on iPad auto routIng for initial planning but adjust the route before using it to actually navigate as it tends to go through islands

 

[MoodySabre]

Auto-routing on Navionics is nonsense on the East coast. It doesn't seem to recognise tidal depths over sandbanks. Huge alternative routes suggested.

 

[Blue Sunray]

Are you using it for Port to Port , so mostly open water. I was playing with it to take me into Bembridge visitor pontoon . To outer marker it was ok , but entry into was suspect.

Using Garmin autoroute on the Hamble would have you bouncing off moored boats IIRC.