Abrégé

Systems and method for providing navigational control of a watercraft are provided herein. The system comprises a display, processor and memory. The memory including computer program code is configured to cause presentation of a chart on the display including at least a portion of the body of water. The system further receives user input indicating initiation of a drift protocol, including indication of a boundary area for which the watercraft will drift through, and causes presentation of the boundary area on the chart. The system determines an instance when the watercraft drifts outside of the boundary area and provides an alert when the watercraft exits or nears the boundary area. The system determines a starting position corresponding to the boundary area and engages an autopilot to cause the watercraft to navigate to the starting position or provides instructions to enable the user to navigate the watercraft to the starting position.

Classes IPC  ?

• B63B 49/00 - Aménagements relatifs aux instruments nautiques ou d'aide à la navigation
• G05D 1/02 - Commande de la position ou du cap par référence à un système à deux dimensions

Abrégé

Systems and methods for conveniently providing anchoring assistance onboard a watercraft are provided herein. An example system includes a display and a processor in communication with a marine system. The processor is configured to receive marine data from the marine system and/or one or more user inputs and cause the display to show one or more anchoring locations with visual indications of the anchorage quality index based on at least the marine data and/or user inputs. The one or more anchoring locations may be shown as a heat map overlaid on a map. The system may use real-time marine data, environmental data, weather data, tide data, etc. to dynamically adjust the anchoring locations and anchorage quality index. The system may enable convenient and helpful suggestions and notifications to the user when anchoring a watercraft. Some examples provide automatic deployment of an anchoring system and monitoring of a current anchoring.

Classes IPC  ?

• B63B 49/00 - Aménagements relatifs aux instruments nautiques ou d'aide à la navigation
• G01C 21/20 - Instruments pour effectuer des calculs de navigation
• B63B 79/15 - Surveillance des caractéristiques ou des paramètres de fonctionnement des navires en opération utilisant des capteurs, p.ex. des capteurs de pression, des jauges de contrainte ou des accéléromètres pour la surveillance des variables environnementales, p.ex. de la hauteur des vagues ou des données météorologiques
• G08G 3/00 - Systèmes de commande du trafic pour les véhicules marins
• B63G 8/38 - Disposition des instruments de veille optique ou électronique, p.ex. périscopes ou radars