GARMIN HOMEPORT REVIEW PLUS

So Anon drove some 64 nm of complex river (the skinny Sasanoa is famous for its whirlpools!), and his Garmin tracked every bit of it in some detail, as you can see in the bottom middle window. Clicking on Active Log #16 would show the 25 nm he'd run down river before lunching in Bath. At any rate, I've clicked on Anon's last automatically made Active Log (track) and Homeport has zoomed out to show part of a neat trip he took down and back up the Kennebec and Sasanoa Rivers from the launch ramp in Hallowell.

Note that I've also opened the 5212 base map from the SD card you can see under Devices (I also have the Vision SD card in the PC, and can switch to that added cartography detail if desired). Thus all the data in the lower left window is his. At upper left on the screen you can see that I've opened the user file that we downloaded off his Garmin and that I imported into my Homeport Library. We'll call him Anon so the Google won't forever pin this very uncharacteristic mistake to his real name. Click to enlarge the screen above and I'll explain after the break. But today's look at some deeper Homeport features gets the benefit of a friend's embarrassing navigation error.

I stowed away some memorable tracks, quickly cleaned up some extraneous waypoints (careful with that track-to-route feature), polished some favorite routes, and then overwrote the user data on the 5212 with a much more useful set.

GARMIN HOMEPORT REVIEW PLUS

I was able to easily copy the 5212's embedded charts - plus the mess of tracks, routes, and waypoints I put on it last season - and then review/manage all on my home computer.

I can't imagine why anyone with a Garmin plotter, a Windows PC, and a bit of ability to use both wouldn't find Garmin Homeport more than worth the $30 charge.

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