Open the Offshore App

Select Departure planning from the menu.

Move your green start waypoint and red destination waypoint to your desired locations.

Tap on the green download button

Select the Routing Mode to be Departure Planning

Tap on Departure planning preferences

Select Departure spacings

Select the forecast models to be used in by the Departure planning tool

Select you start time for the first departure time

You can adjust your Boat Polar, Wave Polar and Motoring settings, they will be the same as you have used in Weather routing.

You can also select which ocean current model you wish to use.

Tap to go back to the download settings

Enable your other download settings

Tap the Blue Continue to Download Button once you are happy with your download settings.

Select your connection type

Tap Download all, leave the downloads page open until all parameters are downloaded.

Tap close once all the downloads are finished and you have blue ticks next to all parameters.

You will be taken to the Tables view. Here you can see a summary of each departure time averaged across all 4 models, take time to analyze how each departure time affects your passage.

Select the detailed view which shows the breakdown of each model for each departure time allowing you to see the variation between models.

Return to the map view

Press Play to animate the map, each boat will leave at the designated departure spacings. This gives you an overview of the weather systems influencing the departure times.

You can see the routes relative to the different models.

Focus your departure time by hiding routes you don't want to see.

TIP: Once it has become obvious which day to leave switch to the Sail Routing or Power Routing for the finer detail. Calculate a Sail Route or Power Route for the day and time in the future and have a good look at the Sail Routing or Power Routing Table output starting with Graphs.