I'm hoping one of the experienced GPS users on the list can help me a bit. These are probably pretty dumb questions, so maybe private e-mail will help, and avoid cluttering up the group's bandwidth even more than I'm doing by posting this note. New to GPS, using Garmin II+, able to use most functions satisfactorily, but having two "problems" and can't seem to figure out answers myself: (1) In learning how to use the GPS, I've created several dozen waypoints and a few routes, most of which I don't intend to put to further practical use. I've deleted the waypoints and routes I won't use "in real life", but when I check available memory in the GPS, it informs me that there are 98 current waypoints, thus ~20% of available memory used up. How do I clear this memory (the waypoints themselves no longer show up on the waypoint list)? I don't find answers to this in the little manual, or at the Garmin website. Have written to Garmin, but no response so far. (2) When I use the unit while paddling, the "turn to" function seems wildly inaccurate. If I followed it exclusively, it would usually lead me about 10 degrees off course, either to the R or to the L. The "track" and "course" features themselves appear to be accurate, as measured by my boat's compass. Am I guessing correctly that the "turn to" figures are mostly a gimmick, are not accurate, and one is expected to be smart enough to steer by bearing and course (with appropriate correction for windand current)? If so, I think I still have enough Betz cells left to handle that .... I haven't yet tried the "cross track" feature enough to have an idea of how accurate that is. Thanks for whatever help folks can give. - Bill Hansen *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:32:57 PDT