The MOB mark appears at own ship's position along with a flag. The MOB position is automatically selected as destination and the range and bearing from own ship's to the MOB position are dis- played.

Press EVENTMOB over 3 seconds when someone falls overboard.

MOB mark

Range +

Current

bearing

position

Man Overboard

Range and bearing to MOB position

M

00

WPMOB 120°

0.8nm

 

CSE 180°

SPD 16.8kt

3D

DEP 113.6 ft

TMP 16.0°C

12.0V

POS

34°26.345'N 135°41.232'E

Figure 2-26 The MOB function

Canceling MOB position as destination

1)Press the [GOTO] key.

2)Press the [CLR] key. The confirmation window appears.

3)Press the [NU/CU ENT] key.

Note: To erase the MOB mark, clear the memory. For further de- tails, see page 6-10.

2.26 Stopping Plotting of Track

When your boat is at anchor or returning to port you probably won’t need to record its track. You can stop recording the track, to con- serve the track memory, as follows:

1)Press the [MENU ESC] key.

2)Press the [2] key to select TRACK/MARK SETUP. The track/ mark setup window appears.

3)Operate the [Arrow] keys to select PLOT.

4)Press the [s] key to select OFF.

5)Press the [MENU ESC] key to close the menu.

"H" appears on the screen, and own ship mark becomes hollow. (Note that "H" does not appear on the navigation display.) To re- sume recording, turn on "PLOT" at step 4 in the above procedure.

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Furuno GP-1600F manual Stopping Plotting of Track, Canceling MOB position as destination

GP-1600F specifications

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