Lowrance electronic 5300c User Manual

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The Tidal Current Information screen displays daily tidal current data

for this station on this date at the present time. The graph at the top of

the screen is an approximate view of the flood and ebb pattern for the

day, from midnight (MN), to noon (NN) to midnight (MN). The velocity

scale at the top left side of the graph changes dynamically based upon

the maximum velocity of the current for that day.
Slack water, the period of little or no current, is represented by the

Slack Water Line (SWL). The flood appears above the SWL and the ebb

appears below the SWL. You can look up tidal current data for other

dates by changing the month, day and year selection boxes.
To select another date:
1. Use

← → to highlight month, day or year, then press

ENT

2. Use

↑ ↓ to select the desired month, day or year and press

ENT

To clear the information screen, press

EXIT

Tide Information
NauticPath charts contain Tidal Information, repre-

sented at large zoom ranges by a box icon with the

letter "T." These icons will appear when you are
zoomed in to a 6-mile range. The icon stands for a

Tidal Station location. An example is displayed at right. When you

zoom in to a sufficiently small zoom range (0.8 nautical mile), the icon
becomes an animated gauge showing a rising or falling tidal height for
the selected station at the present time. At larger zoom ranges, you can

select the boxed "T" icon and it becomes an animated gauge with a pop-
up name box. The name box disappears seconds.

NauticPath chart showing Tide Station icon selected by cursor (left).

Icon animates automatically without selection at the 0.8-mile zoom

range (right). In the example above, the tide is at 0.9 feet and falling,

as shown by the down arrow at the top of the icon.

Tide Station
icon in ani-
mated mode

Cursor
lines