Creating And Navigating A Route From Your Present Location; Creating And Saving A Route; Viewing A List Of Routes And Auto Guidance Paths; Editing A Saved Route - Garmin GPSMAP 7400 Series Owner's Manual

Creating and Navigating a Route From Your Present Location

You can create and immediately navigate a route on the Navigation chart or the Fishing chart. This method does
not save the route or the waypoint data.
1 From the Navigation chart or Fishing chart, select a destination.
2 Select Navigate To > Route To.
3 Select the location of the last turn before the destination.
4 Select Add Turn.
5 If necessary, repeat to add turns, working backward from the destination to the present location of your
vessel.
The last turn you add should be the first turn you make, starting from your present location. It should be the
turn closest to your vessel.
6 If necessary, select Menu.
7 Select Done.
8 Review the course indicated by the magenta line.
9 Follow the magenta line, steering to avoid land, shallow water, and other obstacles.

Creating and Saving a Route

This procedure saves the route and all the waypoints in it. The starting point can be your present location or
another location.
You can add up to 250 waypoints, or turns, to one route.
1 Select Info > User Data > Routes & Auto Guidance Paths > New > Route Using Chart.
2 Select the starting location of the route.
3 Select Add Turn.
4 Select the location of the next turn on the chart.
5 Select Add Turn.
The chartplotter marks the location of the turn with a waypoint.
6 If necessary, repeat steps 4 and 5 to add more turns.
7 Select the final destination.

Viewing a List of Routes and Auto Guidance Paths

1 Select Info > User Data > Routes & Auto Guidance Paths.
2 If necessary, select Filter to see routes only or Auto Guidance paths only.

Editing a Saved Route

You can change the name of a route or change the turns the route contains.
1 Select Info > User Data > Routes & Auto Guidance Paths.
2 Select a route.
3 Select Review > Edit Route.
4 Select an option:
• To change the name, select Name, and enter the name.
• To select a waypoint from the turn list, select Edit Turns > Use Turn List, and select a waypoint from the
list.
• To select a turn using the chart, select Edit Turns > Use Chart, and select a location on the chart.
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