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Route planning

MaxSea enables you to create a route plan by linking together several calculations for headings and distances.

Caution! A route plan created in this manner must not be confused with the active course that the ship is presently following which will be studied in the following chapter The course .

Proceed as above (either double click, or drag between two points) or simply click a point on the chart.

Then click (or drag to), whilst holding the Shift key down, another point on the chart. The software then links the different parts and displays the total distance and duration of the route thus created.

Note: You can at any moment move the chart or change scale (using the corresponding tool) whist plotting a route. Then select again the Navigation tool and continue to plot the route.

MaxSea displays the different parts on the chart with indications of total distance and duration of the route created.

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As explained above you can erase this route by double clicking the Navigation tool test00000005.gif in the Tools palette. Do not do it and refer to The navigation info window.