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• Course up or north up on your Chart Plotter?
  • We like course up......
    • Always course up for us based on an experience in some strong currents
    • Course up
  • Usually north up when in harbors, course up outside on passage.
    • Second that.
      • Third
    • Just the opposite, North up when offshore & ...
  • north up
  • North up, all most always
  • North up when using my AIS off shore. The
  • If I have a course plotted,
    • Cure for "bouncing"
  • NO, Max - say it ain't so!!! Heads-up is for Sea Ray drivers, for chrissake... (grin)
    • Then of course, there was the ad I read a year or so ago, about "South up" charts
      • Can't you just turn the chart over?
        • But, but- don't you see- that would make everything upside down-grin
    • Or those of us who sail as fast as those guys in Sea Rays
    • Depends on the zoom level and plotter location....
  • North up -always
  • North up - always
  • I used to be North up but ....
  • I prefer course up in tight grounds, north up offshore.
  • Thanks for all the responses!
    • Radar overlay makes no difference