You are on your trolling motor holding your position and the Waypoint marking your offshore structure is right in front of you and you make your first cast.
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Your bait is right on top of the structure and you’re fishing your spot. Now, as you fish along you look down to check your position and the wind has blown you backwards. This means the Chart has rotated since you choose the Chart orientation in the Chart menu to be “Heading Up” and it looks like the Waypoint you are fishing is behind the boat, but it’s out in front of you off the bow.
As I referred to in the last article, the Point One is doing it’s job perfectly, showing you the direction the boat is moving now and placing the direction of travel at the top of the screen. The map orientation for “Heading Up” is working fine; BUT, some guys have a hard time visualizing this scenario.
A simple fix for this is to change the Chart orientation. As you pull up to a Waypoint and the wind is blowing and the chance the wind could blow you backwards is present, hit the Menu on your Chart screen, go to Chart Options, hit enter and you will see Map Orientation. Hit enter and change the setting to “North Up” for the time you are going to fish this offshore Waypoint in the wind.
What this will do is keep the Chart facing the same way the whole time you are fishing this spot. As you drift in the wind, you may be shown drifting to one side or the other; but, the map will stay in a fixed position and your boat cursor will just be further away from the Waypoint.
This will help show you that the Waypoint is still in front of the bow and you are just moving away from the Waypoint in the wind. Let’s say it is a southwesterly wind, then the wind would move the boat in a northeasterly direction and the screen would show what is in the distance, if you turned and faced to the Northeast.
As soon as you move the boat with the trolling motor back to the Waypoint, the cursor is going
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to spin around and point to the Southwest. When you are finished fishing the spot, just hit Menu on the Chart screen and go to Map Orientation and change the setting back to “Heading Up”, if you want.
After helping some of my friends who get confused with the rotation of the map on the Chart screen and getting it to stay in a fixed position, they don’t change the Chart back to “Heading Up” on the front any more. They keep the unit at the bow on “North Up” because of the ease of seeing where they are in relation to the Waypoint.
They still keep the unit at the console on “Heading Up” – so when they are on pad going from one spot to another, the map on the Chart screen looks the same as the view in front of the boat regardless of the direction of travel.
Now as I move on to some common questions, if you find that I repeat some similar questions in this article that I have covered in other articles, it is because the question keeps coming up. I may approach the subject from a different angle or use different language to solve the problem; therefore by doing this, I am hoping to get everyone to understand my answers and the idea I’m attempting to get across to you, the reader.
Let’s get started with something less complicated than what you just got through with the Point One GPS antenna.
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