Manual

Plotting competitors' positions
10.5
Long Longitude
Drun Distance run since the last entry
Cse Course between the last entry and the new one
Speed Speed made good between the last entry and the new
one
Wind Wind From the race organizers
dtoF Distance to
finish
From the race organizers, but will
be same as dtoM if no other data
is present (for instance, if you are
entering positions manually).
dtoM Distance to
mark
This will be either the active
waypoint in Deckman or the
position you enter in the bottom
right of the Competitor
information dialog (see below for
more information on this)
Lead Lead Relative to your boat; you should
show as 0, with boats behind
positive and those ahead negative.
brg Bearing From your position.
rng Range From your position.
The
Mark Lat
and
Mark Long
boxes in the
Competitor Information
dialog allow you to manually set the position of the waypoint that
dtoM
refers to.
Note:
at present, you are unable to use this function on first opening the
dialog; you therefore need to enter some positions, or hit
File Data
and
re-select the most recent file in the
boats
subdirectory.
Displaying Competitor Positions
The positions of the competitors form an additional layer in Deckman
called
competitors
and is turned on or off in the normal way by
selecting
menu>layers>general
when in the Navigation display (see
page 3.28)