[CA] [CA11] simple way to do auto guidance

[Chuck - Raymarine - Moderator]

Welcome to the Raymarine Forum Eddie,

The procedure which you have described is indeed correct for systems running LightHouse II software and no shorter means is available. Please note that gS-Series MFDs are designed to support LightHouse 3 software its features include improvements to the Dock to Dock Autorouting. Should the features of LightHouse 3 software be desirable to you (recommend reviewing the LightHouse 3.9 Advanced Operation Instructions and should your system's other equipment be compatible with LightHouse 3 software, then you may want to consider updating the software within the system's MFDs with the latest available LightHouse 3 software for eS/gS-Series MFDs.

The most common cause for generation of a straight line route between the departure waypoint or vessel position and the destination waypoint is that the depth of the water at the starting location or ending location (as stored within the chart card's data) is less than the specified minimum safe depth. Two other causes for this symptom are that the destination waypoint is more than 100nm from the departure waypoint or vessel position or that the resulting route exceeds the maximum number of waypoints permitted within a route.