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***Tom - Raymarine - Moderator***

Hello Dean,

In what way were you having difficulties with the patterns?
If you can't see the Patterns option in the Mode menu item, the cause is probably that you've accidentally selected one of the sail vessel types in Menu > Setup > Autopilot Calibration > Vessel Settings > Hull type.
If you can see Patterns in the Modes menu but can't engage the relevant pattern, there ought to be an alarm that tells us why not. If that's the case, can you let me know the alarm text?

Re. following waypoints, are you building and then following a route? That's the way to follow a sequence, but sometimes people just drop individual waypoints.
If you are following a route (rather than going to a single waypoint) then it sounds like your waypoints may be closer together than your Waypoint Arrival Radius. We always use an arrival radius because it's extremely difficult and usually unnecessary to hit the exact lat/lon of a waypoint, and if your waypoints are very close together or your arrival radius is large then the arrival radii may overlap, so you're already into the radius of WP2 before you reach WP1, for example.
You can configure the arrival radius in Home > Alarms > Settings.

Tom