Navigation Instrument Display

Here is a picture of the main navigation display from earlier today.

Those scary red blobs, aren't actually scary. They are rain clouds; if they are pretty dense (precipitation-laden), they return a radar signature. They've been blossoming (as Torsten put it) all day. (Insert heavy eye-roll, emphasis mine.) The concentric circles around the boat icon are 2 mile increments (changable: you can zoom in or out while the radar is sweeping.)

The dialog box at the top is showing our direction and distance to our next waypoint, the SW side of Hawai'i, the Big Island. 326.8° on the compass and 864 miles. (It also shows a constant recalculation of the estimate travel time & arrival... I NEVER look at that.) 

The thin blue line diagonal from bottom middle/right to upper left is the track from one waypoint to the next.. in this case, 002WPT to 003WPT... our goal is to stay a bit to the right of the line if we can. ( To give ourselves a cushion, like choosing a more comfortable ride in a swell.)

The boxes in the bottom left are:

Trip Log: 1529 miles

Heading: 342.0°

GPS position:

Latitude: 6° 15.5' N

Longitude: 148° 36.3' W

COG (course over ground) 351.5°

SOG (speed over ground) 7.6 knots

Trip Log was zero'ed at the marina; that's the number we check everyday at 5pm.

We are more than half way!!! 

Why isn't the Course and the Heading the same? Excellent question! 

Idk. But I can tell you that heading is a magnetic compass reading. COG is a GPS calculation. 

We also have separate gauges for wind angle/speed. And customizable readings. Plus the autopilot screen (which also has a bunch of info... some of it the same)

There's a quiz tomorrow. (Jk)

Love & Light,

~e.