Hi Scott, That sounds like a cool feature. In lieu of that, you can always turn on the repeat heading feature and set it to repeat say every 30 seconds or 1 minute instead of the default 12 seconds. You could also pick some POI way off in the direction you are heading and set the unit to repeat that as well. Jim Original Message ----- From: "Scott Ford" <scotte.ford@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:28 PM Subject: [gps-talkusers] new feature request
Hello Charles and everyone, I have a feature request that would help me while I am sailing. I realized that it would help me with orienteering or at least going through the woods in a straight line. I am going to be crewing on the schoonerMadilan for a week this summer. We will be sailing from Duluth Minnesota to Marquette Michigan. One of my duties will be to steer the boat. I can getthe heading with no problem; however quickly setting a waypoint, or a destination, or virtual position out on the horizon at a given distance iskind of cumbersome and difficult. Most sighted people can set their heading and pick something on the horizon to steer toward. I would like to be ableto place a waypoint, virtual position, or destination a given distance straight out in front of my current heading. This would allow me to make course corrections to maximize the current wind conditions, still allowing me to steer to that position on the horizon. I would like to have the distance placement be a variable that allows the distance to be changed. Scott