Manual

Chapter 9: Wind and current forecasts
9.4
The appearance of the whole display can be controlled by hitting the
Options
button which will give you the dialog shown in Figure 9.2.
Contour Line Thickness
, the four
Contour Colours
boxes and the
Arrow
Type box are all self-explanatory.
Arrow Colour
allows you to
change the colour of the arrow heads as the data change: each successive
box in the
Custom colors
section represents either 5 knots of wind
speed or 0.5 knots of current. Click in the box you wish to change, select
a colour from the rainbow area and then hit
Add to Custom Colors
.
The four
Contour Spacing
boxes allow you to change the spacing
between the contours; units as above.
Downloading GRIB forecasts
There are two sources of GRIB forecasts which you can access from
within Deckman. OCENS WeatherNet is a subscription service with
which you must register while Saildocs is a free service
*
. An easy
interface is then provided from within Deckman to download and view
these files.
OCENS
Turn on the GRIB viewer and then click on
Select GRIB file
followed
by
OCENS WeatherNet
. You will be presented with a display like that
shown in Figure 9.3.
*
For more information on these please see www.ocens.com and
www.saildocs.com