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How to use Waypoints for Routing and Planning

Written by Matt Crockett

Drag your Green Waypoint (Start) and Red Waypoint (Finish) to create the desired route.

When you use the weather routing or departure planning tool, you can add intermediate waypoints to any route.

Tip, Let the Router do it's job, it is best to limit the number of Intermediate waypoints. Forcing it to a waypoint may not produce the optimum route.

Our routing software has depth avoidance settings, which can be edited in the Routing Preferences. The default is 2m. We use C Maps for the underlying depth contours.

Please note, Up to 20 intermediate waypoints can be added.

To add waypoints between the green (start) and red (finish):

  • Click the Waypoint icon at the top right of the screen, and the Waypoint pop-up box will appear.

  • Then click the + plus button as many times as you want waypoints, so if you wish to have two waypoints, click twice.

  • Exit out of the pop-up box, and you will see two white dots on your yellow route line (Great Circle Route)

  • Click and drag each white dot to where you wish to place the waypoint.

  • Click on the waypoint icon again, and click the small grey dot to the left of the waypoint lat and long; you can select if you want to 'Go To' the waypoint (white) or round the waypoint to 'P' port (red) or 'S' starboard (green).

  • To delete a waypoint click the - minus button.

How to Import Waypoints into the Forecast Website

To import waypoints into the PredictWind Forecast Website:

  1. Login to the Forecast Website.

  2. Click on Sail Routing or Power Routing.

  3. Click on the Routing icon.

  4. Click on Waypoints.

  5. Click on Import.

  6. Select your waypoint file to import and click OK.

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