Tide and Current Information

[RickSegal]

Chuck (and all),

I got all of the charts/tides/etc. to work. Before coming up with my next dumb question, I thought I would document this for the next newbie who comes along.

Here are a few key points that are important.

1. The display between the mobile App (iPad in my case) is different. If you are looking for the same tide marker or current, they are not the same on the plotter and the mobile app.

2. Tide/Current is not "turned on" via any settings. Once the plotter correctly reads the right stuff, it just is there.

3. Triple key point: You have to select the Sonar Chart not the "Navionics" when you are picking the chart to use. On LH v 17, it is below the Navionics basic and for me, I just didn't make the connection that there are two different chart sets to look at. Choose the right one and bob's yer uncle.

To make it all work, well, that's another story that's important.

First, if you happen to have two flavors Navionics Plus and the Platinum pack, only put one in the plotter. Yeah, right? What happens (happened to me) is the a95 simply didn't recognize there was an enhanced product in the device and no advanced options or such came up onto my system. So:

1. Using the Navionics system on your Mac/PC, make sure the mSD it sees shows your active subscription in the upper right hand corner.

2. With the device off, pop the mSD into the a95 and boot up.

3. Look carefully at the screen before you hit the confirm button. You should see the same subscription expiration date as what you saw on the PC when you activated/checked your card.

4. Hit the confirm and when you can check the chart selection, same thing, look to see that the expiry of you data is there. If it says you subscription isn't activated, power down, take the mSD out, and go through the PC update again. I did and that solved the problem.

5. Once you have all that, you can turn on the advanced 3d and whatever else. For currents it's the diamond with a C and Tides, T in the Time, select it and you'll get the data you expect.

I hope this helps the next person out there trying to make the Navionics and a95 MFD work to the max potential.

Fair Winds all.

Rick Segal
S/V Tess Marie, Campbell River, BC