Electronic Navigation — Interboot 2026

Electronic navigation has become indispensable on yachts — the advantages are obvious. All units are relatively easy to operate and provide a lot of information on a single display, and very quickly.

Nevertheless, electronic navigation onboard also has its limits, which you absolutely need to be aware of.

This seminar serves as an introduction and a hands-on look at the equipment, and is ideal for yacht owners as well as leisure and charter skippers who have discovered sailing as a new passion and want to navigate their waters confidently using electronic navigation.

These are compact morning seminars of approximately 3 to 3.5 hours. Afterwards you still have plenty of time to visit the show.

A maximum of six participants are taken. Every participant has the opportunity to operate a plotter display. For optimal hands-on practice there is one Raymarine Axiom unit per person.

The following topics are presented via video projector:

• Introduction: the advantages and limits of electronic navigation
• NMEA / WiFi — connection between the individual instruments
• Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS, GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, etc.)
• Chartplotter & software
• AIS: evaluating and interpreting AIS information
• Radar: collision avoidance with MARPA, Doppler and guard zones
• Electronic compass
• Depth sounder
• Autopilot

In the practical part the following topics are practised on the chartplotters:

• Reading the chart including symbols
• Reading tide and current information
• Setting waypoints and routes
• Radar collision avoidance using MARPA, Doppler and guard zones
• AIS overlay
• Depth sounder view

Seminar starts: 10:15. Seminar ends: approx. 13:30. A seminar booklet can be purchased on-site for €20.–.

Our instructor has combined 5 years of radar experience at sea with the British Royal Navy and over 25 years in the radar industry to deliver a highly realistic and clearly understandable seminar.