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When using 'Navigate' to follow a course (route) how do you advance to the next waypoint?

JimboSailing
over 3 years ago

(I actually have a Quatix but can't find a forum for that)

I have uploaded some exported routes/courses as .gpx files to my watch using Garmin Explore. When I go into the Navigate app, I can select the route as a course, and customise the screens so I get things like map (I have a bluechart installed), Bearing to Waypoint (BTW), Distance to Waypoint (DTW) etc. 

What I cannot seem to do is 'advance' waypoint to select the next one in the route, so while navigating it always shows Wpt 1 as the next one. 

While using the watch for situation awareness afloat, this seems like fairly basic route (or course, as they call it!) functionality. 

Anyone got any tips? 

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Do you want to manually switch to the next waypoint or automatically, switch to the next when you reach a point?

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to #Matthias#

    Hi Matthias - either would be fine! If there was a way to manually do it I think that would be better for my purposes, but even if it automatically advanced to the next waypoint each time I arrived at a waypoint, that would work too. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to JimboSailing

    Hi. So manually skipping waypoints does not work at all. Usually, it jumps to the next waypoint when you pass the previous one. Why it's not working for you is because it cannot handle the waypoints from gpx files. When you use course navigation, what is displayed in the waypoint data fields are actually course points, not waypoints. I know 2 ways to do achieve what you want:

    1. Create your course in a third party app like Locus Map or plotaroute.com, manually add course points in these apps and transfer the course to the watch as fit file. Locus has a plugin that does that. 
    2. Create your course in Garmin Connect, add course points, export it as fit file and transfer it to your watch. Do not use Garmin Connect sync to transfer the course, because this will add Turn by Turn navigation prompts that will show up as waypoints. 

    I know it is complicated, but Garmin does not provide any user friendly way of doing it.