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What’s On the Display

The 900 Series™ Chartplotter can display a variety of useful information.

1 Cursor Info Box: indicates the Latitude and Longitude of the cursor position, the distance to travel to the cursor position and the bearing to the cursor position is shown with a GPSreceiver. A waypoint can be marked at the cursor position for later retrieval and use with a GPS receiver.

2Latitude and Longitude Position of Cursor

3Distance to Cursor

4Bearing to Cursor

5Waypoint

6Active Cursor Icon

7Boat Icon

8 Course Projection Line: Arrow extending from the bow of the boat that projects your current course, and shows where the boat will go if you continue on your present course.

9Route: Two or more linked waypoints that show intended navigation and the shortest path from one waypoint to the next.

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10 Track: Detailed position history, displayed as a breadcrumb trail of trackpoints.

11Cartography

12Map Scale

13Selectable Readout Boxes

14Course Over Ground: the current direction the boat is traveling measured in degrees from North.

15Bearing to Waypoint

16Speed Over Ground: the measurement of the boat’s progress across a given distance, and is the speed measurement provided by GPS.

17Latitude and Longitude Position of Boat

18NEXT: Next Waypoint in the Route

19TTG: Time to Go to Waypoint

20DTG: Distance to Go to Waypoint

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