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Hello everyone. This is my very post here on this forum. Allow me to introduce myself: My name is Pilot Anthoni of the Bermuda Pilot Service.
Recently our service just purchased a Gladding Hearn 61ft Pilot / Rescue cutter. She serves as a dual purpose vessel with piloting being her primary duty.
This lovely vessel was fitted with the furuno NavNet unit's with everything intergrated (auto pilot, radar, sounder). Our units has proven to be top notch, wonderful and user-friendly. :furuno
lately we have been undergoing many offshore Search and Rescue deployment's. The problem we have with these navnet is that our shore based Rescue Centre usually generates a search pattern for the boat using some sort of software and transferred to a SD card for our use. this has been wonderful us thus far. However this search pattern cannot be moved to a different position once loaded on to the NavNet's. For example, lets take the expanding square search pattern.....if we ever have to move this entire pattern to search another area there is no way of doing this with the NavNet units. Or is there a way????
The most practical way in doing so is to manually enter many different waypoints to achieve the new search pattern in a different area. Can you imagine doing this in rough seas and how much time it will consume?
My question to Furuno Tech is: Can patterns be moved as a whole pattern to another position on the chart to eliminate manual plotting of waypoints?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Capt. Anthnoni L.
Recently our service just purchased a Gladding Hearn 61ft Pilot / Rescue cutter. She serves as a dual purpose vessel with piloting being her primary duty.
This lovely vessel was fitted with the furuno NavNet unit's with everything intergrated (auto pilot, radar, sounder). Our units has proven to be top notch, wonderful and user-friendly. :furuno
lately we have been undergoing many offshore Search and Rescue deployment's. The problem we have with these navnet is that our shore based Rescue Centre usually generates a search pattern for the boat using some sort of software and transferred to a SD card for our use. this has been wonderful us thus far. However this search pattern cannot be moved to a different position once loaded on to the NavNet's. For example, lets take the expanding square search pattern.....if we ever have to move this entire pattern to search another area there is no way of doing this with the NavNet units. Or is there a way????
The most practical way in doing so is to manually enter many different waypoints to achieve the new search pattern in a different area. Can you imagine doing this in rough seas and how much time it will consume?
My question to Furuno Tech is: Can patterns be moved as a whole pattern to another position on the chart to eliminate manual plotting of waypoints?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Capt. Anthnoni L.