Starting The Race Timer; Stopping The Race Timer; Setting The Distance Between The Bow And The Gps Antenna; Laylines Settings - Garmin ECHOMAP UHD2 6 SV Owner's Manual

Starting the Race Timer

The race timer is added to the Sail Racing combination screen by default.
1 From the Sail Racing combination screen, select Start.
NOTE: You can also access this from the Sailing SmartMode
2 When necessary, select Sync to synchronize with the official race timer.

Stopping the Race Timer

From the Sail Racing combination screen, select Stop.

Setting the Distance between the Bow and the GPS Antenna

You can enter the distance between the bow of your boat and the location of your GPS antenna. This helps
ensure the bow of your boat crosses the starting line at the precise start time.
1 From the Sail Racing combination screen, select
2 Enter the distance.
3 Select Done.

Laylines Settings

To use the laylines features, you must connect a wind sensor to the chartplotter.
When in sailing mode (Setting the Vessel Type for Sailing Features,
navigation chart. Laylines can be very helpful when racing.
From the Navigation chart, select
Sailing Ang.: Allows you to select how the device calculates laylines. The Actual option calculates the laylines
using the measured wind angle from the wind sensor. The Manual option calculates the laylines using
manually entered windward and leeward angles. The Polar Table option calculates the laylines based on the
imported polar table data
Windward Ang.: Allows you to set a layline based on the windward sailing angle.
Leeward Ang.: Allows you to set a layline based on the leeward sailing angle.
Tide Correction: Corrects the laylines based on the tide.
Layline Filter: Filters the layline data based on the time interval entered. For a smoother layline that filters out
some of the changes in the boat's heading or true wind angle, enter a higher number. For laylines that display
a higher sensitivity to changes in the boat's heading or true wind angle, enter a lower number.
Sailing Features
> Layers > My Vessel > Laylines > Setup.
(Importing a Polar Table Manually,
™ screen and the navigation chart.
> Start Line Guidance > Start Line > GPS Bow Ofst..
page 50), you can display laylines on the
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