NaviSailor 3000

The Navi-Sailor 3000 ECDIS Route Plan table contains the following:

• Geographical data (coordinates, course, GC/RL…)
• Schedule information (ETA, ETD, Average speed…)
• Route Plan calculations take into account relevant weather and current information

Other useful capabilities of the Route Planning facility include:

• ‘Check Route’ functionality, both online and after the planning
• Upload route to GPS
• Graphical on-screen and tabular route plan editing
• Equalising of data between Master and Slave station(-s)
• Print out of Route Plan information

Autopilot:

Navi-Sailor 3000 ECDIS provides a facility for sailing in the Autopilot mode.

Search and Rescue Operations:

Navi-Sailor 3000 ECDIS allows a route to be created in accordance with the following search schemes recommended by the international SAR Convention:

• Expanding Square
• Parallel Track/ Creeping Line
• Sector Search

Integrated Navtex information:

The Transas Navtex Manager facility is capable of:

• Automatic reading of messages arriving via NAVTEX and their processing;
• Extracting co-ordinates, area, transmitting station, topic and other parameters;
• Saving NAVTEX messages onto the hard disk and displaying the message mark on the electronic chart;
• Generating automatic alarms upon the entry in the area of note, received from the NAVTEX, or at the approach to a single message mark.

Integrated weather information:

The Weather Wizard module integrated into Navi-Sailor 3000 ECDIS allows weather data from the UK Meteorological Office to be delivered to Transas users via E-mail and to be processed automatically. Weather forecasts can be obtained for a period of up to 5 days.

• Pressure
• Wind speed and direction
• Significant height of waves
• Swell (height, period, direction)

UAIS interface:

The Navi-Sailor 3000 ECDIS – (U)AIS transponder interface provides the following capabilities:

• Display of (U)AIS targets on the screen
• Full target information
• Sending and receipt of messages and target information
• Fast search of targets on name, IMO number, MMSI, and Call sign; highlighting of the selected target on the electronic chart screen

In May 2003, the ‘Navi-Sailor 3000 ECDIS – UAIS Transponder interface for collision avoidance’ won the prestigious Cruise & Ferry ‘2003 Award in the category ,’Best innovation in safety systems or safety technology’.

UAIS interface:

The Navi-Sailor 3000 ECDIS – (U)AIS transponder interface provides the following capabilities:

• Display of (U)AIS targets on the screen
• Full target information
• Sending and receipt of messages and target information
• Fast search of targets on name, IMO number, MMSI, and Call sign; highlighting of the selected target on the electronic chart screen

User-adjustable interface:

The simultaneous display of two chart panels is provided with the Navi-Sailor 3000 ECDIS. For the user’s convenience, each panel is displayed independently and can be controlled by a separate toolbar. Similarly, the user can control both the size and layout of the panels. On the chart panels, any combination the vessel motion modes consisting of Head-Up/ North-Up/ Course-Up and True Motion/ Relative Motion can be displayed.