Don't lose your valuables
Author:
Capt. David Bacon
Laptop Battery In a sometimes deadly area called the "potato patch" off the west end of California's Santa Cruz Island, currents, winds and swells collide, creating steep, powerful waves. I once watched a rogue wave break over an open boat, nearly swamping it. The boat's batteries and all the electronics aboard instantly fried when a metallic object landed on the battery terminals with salt water sloshing all around. The electrical system had neither a good common-ground system nor adequate fuses. Fortunately, the boat was towed back to harbor. A month later, the owner had the boat back on the water sporting new wiring and a brand-new suite of electronics. I saw him actually cry, though, when he discovered that his many years' worth of accumulated hot fishing waypoints couldn't be salvaged. All that information, which he considered more valuable than the electronics themselves, went up in smoke with his fried chart plotter. He had no backups.
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Various marine electronics manufacturers engineer different backup methods into their units, and a few actually appreciate the importance of providing an easy way to safeguard our information. Trisha Barker at JRC America reports that the company's JRC PLOT 500F GPS plotter has a plug-and-play connector that allows users to create and edit routes on a PC, then upload it all to a plotter on the boat.
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Jeff Kauzlaric at Furuno explains that many of that company's GPS chart plotters accept chart cards such as those from C-Map. Furuno offers RAM cards that fit into the same slot, allowing you to back up important waypoint data. Simply insert a blank RAM card into the slot and follow the system's menu-driven instructions to back up waypoints and routes. Most major manufacturers make it equally easy. You could honestly train a chimp to back up a Furuno system. Here are the actual instructions:
Download Step 1: Press the menu button.
Step 2: Select "System Configuration" from the menu.
Step 3: Select "Data Transfer" from the menu.
Step 4: Select "Save Data to Memory Card" or "Download WPT/Route to PC" from the menu. Step 5: Select the information that you want to save.
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Laptop Computer "All Simrad/C-Map NT-based chart-plotting systems offer convenient data storage on a compact memory data card. (It looks identical to a C-Map NT cartridge.) The complete data storage routine takes only seconds to perform and safeguards all critical data. As a bonus, the chart-plotter system's unique setup instructions, e.g., depth calibration, units of measure, chart details, color palette, and other user-definable parameters, are also stored. So a user can restore his chart plotter to a familiar condition or operate another Simrad chart plotter as a guest with complete familiarity."
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Desktop Computer Simrad engineered a different data merge method, however. To merge data after it's stored, Simrad offers a TL50 Turbo Loader option with floppy drive. A waypoint list can be stored on inexpensive PC floppy disk media, exchanged with another user and then added to that user's waypoint list instead of overwriting it.
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Certainly I can offer many good reasons for backing up waypoints and routes. Surprisingly, many tend more toward utility than security. Older GPS chart plotters have limited memory. Thankfully, efficiencies and economies from the rapid advances of PC technology spill over into marine electronics, imbuing newer units with ever-increasing amounts of memory to store information. But rapid growth requires management to be truly beneficial.
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Boaters who go on frequent or long trips commonly need more memory than their units inherently supply. For instance, a captain based in San Francisco may keep extensive routes and waypoints for that general area, filling integral memory to capacity. But what if he plans a longer-range fishing vacation? Obviously, the captain won't want to blithely dump all his normal info so he can fish other regions. Now, he can use his home PC to augment his charting system in planning and saving routes and places to stop. The routes may contain complex plotting solutions for navigating into an unfamiliar port in dense fog.
Hard Drive You'd be amazed at the increased sense of security and confidence you can enjoy having all your navigation in unfamiliar waters planned in advance rather than taking time away from your actual piloting under potentially adverse conditions.
Travelstar Once nav planning is complete, take all of the routes and waypoints for each general geographic area (or chart region) and put each on a separate RAM card. Load the first card into the GPS plotter, and cast off. During your travels, you'll probably want to save additional information, which will require more available memory. Changing cards as you enter a new chart region will give it to you. Plus, all the info saved on the last RAM card may come in handy on your return legs. With enough RAM cards, an around-the-world fishing trip could be easily managed.
Gateway Marine electronics vendors such as Simrad, Raymarine and Furuno, offer facilities to back up more than just waypoint and route data. For example, a Setting Data function lets you save all of your radar settings such as heading and timing, all chart plotter settings, and even the sounder settings, if they were changed. In addition to the setting data, waypoints and routes, it is also possible to save tracks, marks and lines. It's almost like a one-button return to default settings - great for when a guest starts messing with your electronics.
Laptop Parts "Another feature that is pretty neat on the NavNet products is the ability to transfer waypoints and routes from one unit on the network to another," explains Furuno's Kauzlaric. "Say you are on the flybridge marking waypoints or a route of the trip. You can climb down to the main helm station and tell that unit to transfer the new waypoint and route information that you entered on the unit up on the flybridge. That information will transfer over the Ethernet network, and you will not need to go through the whole process of saving and uploading from a memory card."
Software Northstar developed a networking capability to synchronize stored data between multiple units. According to Mark Reedenauer, "The next generation 6000i Northstar products with N2 networking automatically synchronize the waypoint and route databases if there is more than one unit on the same boat. For example, if two or more 6000i units are networked together and a waypoint is saved on one unit, that same waypoint is automatically saved on the other unit without lifting a finger." This is an excellent way of backing up data in the rare occurence of malfunction.
Hard Drives Just as you can't really afford a catastrophic failure on your home or business computer, losing the hard-won info in your boat's electronic memory banks can be disastrous. Don't run the risk of a mishap destroying your waypoints and other stored data. Back it up!
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