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    9/17/2015 5:55 am  #1

    billreilly
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    Motoring and/or motorsailing

    On the Optimal Routing Advanced Settings page there's a section called "Motoring" that is greyed out.

    Any idea of when this feature will be active?

    This is a feature that is very important for me so it would be great to see it working... I've tried one of Campbell's workarounds of building a new polar file with all the boatspeeds modified to indicate motoring speed when it's below a certain speed, but it is not working as well as it should.

    For this reason I use Squid for all my weather routing because the motorsailing function works perfectly, much better than the workaround.

    I hope this feature gets added soon.

    Bill

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    9/17/2015 8:04 am  #2

    Campbell_Field
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    Re: Motoring and/or motorsailing

    Basic, update your version (free). Then try it.

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    9/17/2015 8:22 am  #3

    billreilly
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    Re: Motoring and/or motorsailing

    Campbell_Field wrote:

    Basic, update your version (free). Then try it.

    Thanks Campbell!... I didn't know there was a new version and that this feature was now active... It should make Expedition much more usable for cruisers and deliveries (of course I should try it and make sure it works first!).

    Thanks again,

    Basic
     

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    9/26/2015 4:44 am  #4

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    Re: Motoring and/or motorsailing

    I have just done a windless China Sea crossing and used the motoring routing ( along great circle route) but although the results gave large sectors of motoring, it appeared that the routing only used the boatspeed as if I was sailing. Hence I was always ahead of where routing expected me to be. I may not have had all the settings correct maybe. But I would have thought the boatspeed in the results should have been the minimum motorong speed entered.

     

    9/27/2015 11:21 pm  #5

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    Re: Motoring and/or motorsailing

    Hello,

    Thanks for pointing that out. Am just posting an update that includes presenting this correctly.

    Nick

     

     

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