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Old 06-23-2020, 10:43 AM   #1
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Visualizing bottom contours

Has anyone else ever experienced that moment when you're going in an inlet, the waves and wind have picked up and all of a sudden you need to be able to just glance at the chartplotter and REALLY quickly see the bottom contours?

Or been out looking for a good place to fish or dive?

Navionics just released Relief Shading. It makes it really easy to see bottom contours. Check it out here:
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Old 06-23-2020, 10:58 AM   #2
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Assuming the data is current....


99% of the time you are better off lookig at the channel markers or trying to locate them to stay where you belong.


I guess if you are an expedition type...it could come in handy if you trust the data over having nothing.


If you can overlay navaids on it, different story.



For sports I can see some liking it so they can match it to depth sounder or sidescan readings.
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