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Do you know where you are going? What do you need to get there… Voted -“MANUFACTURER OF THE YEAR” 3rd Year running!! Joanne Maurice Product Training Specialist - Western Canada Garmin International My role with Garmin is to provide product training and support for our Dealers and customers across Western Canada from Vancouver Island to Saskatchewan. Garmin was founded in 1989 by Gary Burrel and Dr. Min Kao. A worldwide leader in GPS and Navigation technology in multiple markets including: Marine, Aviation, Automotive, Outdoor and Sports (running, cycling, golf) Visit me @ Booth #374 The basics, what you should have on board… ➢ GPS Navigation - Chartplotter & Charts? ➢ Radar? ➢ Sonar? ➢ Autopilot? ➢ VHF/AIS? ➢ Satellite SOS Communicator? What are important things to consider?... ➢ What level of Customer Support will you receive? ➢ Ease of Use… Do you have to re-learn your Electronics every time out on the water? ➢ Company History, Reliability, Reputation… Chartplotters & Combo Units Things to Consider in a Chartplotter… ➢ Chartplotter or Combo unit? ➢ Touchscreen or Buttons ➢ Fill the space… No one has ever said I wish I had gotten a smaller screen Customizing your Chartplotter and making it yours… 1 to 6-way Splits Your Favourites Section: Having all your Go-To Functions saved in one place for easy access… Sonar Technology Not just your Daddy’s Old Fishfinder anymore… CHIRP Sonar Technology CHIRP sonar is one of the most sophisticated sonar technologies available for the fishing and boating public.The word itself is an acronym for Compressed High-Intensity Radiated Pulse. CHIRP sonar provides amazingly clear SONAR & target separation and definition because it puts even more energy onto the target than traditional sonar. THE RIGHT STANDARD SONAR Standard sonar sends one single frequency at a time. Since the only feedback is from this one single frequency, there is limited information to work with, restricting the clarity and TRANSDUCER resolution available with standard sonar. GARMIN CHIRP SONAR HD-ID Sonar Instead of sending just one single frequency, CHIRP sends a Traditional sonar that is available on Garmin continuous sweep of frequencies within a range from low to high. Garmin CHIRP sonar technology then interprets each fishfinders. Dual-beam, HD-ID sonar transmits frequency individually upon its return. Since this continuous two frequencies, generally either 77/200 kHz or sweep of frequencies provides CHIRP with a much wider range 50/200 kHz.combos. of information, CHIRP sonar is able to create a much clearer, higher resolution image with greater target separation and crisper fish arches. For example, 80-160kHz is sweeping through the trange from 80kHz all the way up to 160kHz and hitting every single frequency in between. CHIRP TRANSDUCER The transducer selection is key to CHIRP performance. CHIRP transducers have elements that are tuned to specific frequency ranges and limit interference while transmitting and receiving Data. Choose the right frequency range for the water conditions you experience while boating. Minimal ring-down resulting from a low Q Incredibly sharp fish targets with separation even in the dense shoals Baitfish detached from the main bottom signal return Ful l S u i te o f S ona r FrontVü LiveScope Forward CHIRP ClearVü LiveScope Down CHIRP SideVü Panoptix LiveVü Down CHIRP Traditional Sonar UHD ClearVü Panoptix LiveVü Forward UHD SideVü Cartography Marine Charts Blending Garmin Chart Data & Navionics… the Best of both worlds… And why not add Auto-Guidance too… BlueChart Cartography Garmin offers 2 coastal accessory card assortments. BlueChart g3 HD is Garmin’s advanced chart offering, providing worldwide coverage and features that are reliable and easy to use, now containing the • added data from Navionics integrated content, and now Auto Guidance. BlueChart g3 Vision HD is Garmin’s premium chart offering, bringing all the reliability and features of BlueChart g3 HD while adding industry leading features, like Satellite Imagery, 3-D Navigation perspective, Arial Photos etc. & Auto Guidance. US All & Canada West Coast Bluechart g3 Provides detailed coverage of the eastern coast of the U.S. from Key West, FL to the Canadian border and the western coast from the Mexican border to Puget Sound, Alaska, Hawaii and major inland rivers, the U.S. Gulf Coast to the Mexican border and the Mexican Gulf Coast thru to the Yucatan. Canadian coverage includes the entire St. Lawrence Seaway, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The Great Lakes are covered in their entirety as are the Lake of the Woods. Coverage includes Prince Edward Island, Anticosti Island, Vancouver Island including the Inside and Outside Passages, Aleutian and Channel Islands, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, Cozumel, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. BlueChart Cartography Navigational aids, spot soundings, Depth Range Shading for up to Garmin Auto Guidance Unique 3D views like MarinerEye depth contours, tides and 10 depth ranges enables you to technology shows a suggested and FishEye provide additional currents and detailed harbors and view your target depth at a route to a destination¹ perspective both above and marinas glance below the water line Detailed coastal roads up to 5 miles inland Up to 1-foot contours provide a Shallow Water Shading feature High-resolution satellite imagery Aerial Photography shows more accurate depiction of allows for depth shading at a user of ports, marinas, bridges and exceptional detail of many ports, bottom structure for improved defined level to aid in navigation navigational landmarks for harbors and marinas and is ideal fishing charts and navigation in superior situational awareness when entering unfamiliar ports. swamps, canals and marinas Canada LakeVü HD & HD Ultra Auto-Guidance As easy as from Point A to Point B Auto Guidance technology quickly calculates a suggested route using your boat’s parameters and a suggested path to follow. Tides & Currents Reading Tidal Current Information on a Marine Device… Tidal current is the speed and direction in which water is moving in order to create high or low tides. Garmin marine chartplotters have the ability to display both a chart and a report indicating the speed and direction of the current. General Terms used when Referring to Currents… • Set - The direction that the current flows toward. Note that this is the opposite of the way winds are reported. • Drift - This is the speed of a current. • Velocity - As the typical term in physics infers, this is an indication of both speed and direction (set and drift). • Speed - How fast the water is moving in relation to a stationary object (i.e. shore, lighthouse). • Flood Flow - The tidal current is in flood when it is coming from the sea to the shore (tide is coming in, or high tide is ensuing). • Ebb Flow - The tidal current is in ebb when it is coming from shore and returning to the sea (low tide ensuing). • Slack Water - The point between flood and ebb (or ebb and flood) currents when there is no horizontal movement. • Stand - The point where vertical changes stop as the tide reverses. This is not the same as slack water; this is a tidal (vertical) occurrence, not a tidal current (horizontal) occurrence. • Maximum Current - The normal maximum speeds of the ebb and flood currents. This does not include effects of weather or run-off from the rain or melting snow, which can significantly affect tidal currents. QuickDraw Contours: Live FREE Custom Map Generation on the Chartplotter QuickDraw Contours: Live FREE Custom Map Generation on the Chartplotter Quick Draw allows a user to map uncharted waters or supplement their existing Inland or Coastal Chart content. Should I Have? VHF & AIS What about VHF & AIS?… See and Be Seen Automatic Identification System An active tracking system used on vessels for transmitting their: ➢ Identity ➢ Position ➢ Course ➢ Speed. All of that is useful information, but in order to access that information you must have an AIS receiver on board and the other vessel must be actively using an AIS Transceiver. Large commercial vessels are required to use AIS, but even though receivers are becoming popular on pleasure boats, very few have AIS transceivers… So, even if you have AIS on board, you won’t be able to see any boat that doesn’t operate a transceiver VHF & AIS What is Important? VHF 315 ➢ BUILT-IN GPS?: Built-in GPS provides the radio with a GPS position without the need of an external antenna to be connected ➢ AIS Included with VHF? : This feature displays AIS on the chartplotter to enhance communication, situational awareness and collision avoidance ➢ INTEGRATION: Fixed-mount with plug and play via the NMEA 2000 network; can also be connected via NMEA 0183 ➢ DSC (Digital Selective Calling): Standard Class D DSC functionality (distress calling and direct calling with user-programmed MMSI) ➢ FREQUENCIES: Preprogrammed with U.S. and Canadian marine channels; receives 10 NOAA weather channels AIS 800 Class B/SO performance Faster More Frequent Reporting… 2500 ➢ AIS 800 uses Class B/SO, ➢ More similar to Class A 2000 (Commercial Vessels) (feet) AIS 800 1500 Class B/SO ➢ Transmits position more often as AIS 600 TRAVELLED 1000 Class B/CS vessel speed increases TRANSMITS Commercial Class A ➢ Increased safety factor for fast 500 DISTANCE boats BETWEEN 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 VESSEL SPEED (knots) Radar… SolidState or Magnetron?? Why Should I have a Radar… See Where You Can’t ➢GPS Chartplotters and AIS are very valuable for the functions they perform… although ➢Note: None of them can help prevent a collision with uncharted objects such as boats without AIS transmitters, floating debris, uncharted rocks, buoys that have drifted off station, etc. ➢Radar, on the other hand, doesn’t need the target to do anything Except Exist. Fantom SolidState vs. xHD Radars Things to Consider in a Radar ➢What is Motionscope Technology??- Uses Doppler processes to detect moving targets in real time, helping users avoid potential collisions, find flocks of birds and track weather.