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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)