NPMR
Well-known member
We have just come back from 2 months on the boat, going down the West coast of France.
We left the UK and all was 'normal' on the Raymarine plotter until we got off the Rade de Brest. We did not make the connection with the 'place' but suddenly, the plotter would not easily and sometimes failed altogether to make the change from 12 to 24mile magnification. We spoke to Navionics and they were very helpful but had no answer. We tried talking to a UK Raymarine dealer but got no response.
We assumed we had a malfunction in the plotter or a faulty chip (Navionics immediately offered to send to us a new chip but this was not practical for us, so we declined).
So we lived with the issue and anyway we were able to work round it.
On the way home, we'd left the Rade behind and all of a sudden the system was operating properly again! At this point, the Navionics chip was once again using UK charts for its database. Talking to Navionics, they wondered if the amount of data on the chart (from the French charts and in that area) was too much for the plotter to handle and it was 'freezing' or struggling to compute.
Has anybody else come across something like this?
We left the UK and all was 'normal' on the Raymarine plotter until we got off the Rade de Brest. We did not make the connection with the 'place' but suddenly, the plotter would not easily and sometimes failed altogether to make the change from 12 to 24mile magnification. We spoke to Navionics and they were very helpful but had no answer. We tried talking to a UK Raymarine dealer but got no response.
We assumed we had a malfunction in the plotter or a faulty chip (Navionics immediately offered to send to us a new chip but this was not practical for us, so we declined).
So we lived with the issue and anyway we were able to work round it.
On the way home, we'd left the Rade behind and all of a sudden the system was operating properly again! At this point, the Navionics chip was once again using UK charts for its database. Talking to Navionics, they wondered if the amount of data on the chart (from the French charts and in that area) was too much for the plotter to handle and it was 'freezing' or struggling to compute.
Has anybody else come across something like this?
