Selecting System Units on Garmin Screens

Learn how to quickly set up an Anchor Drag Alarm on your Garmin system to help keep your vessel safe while anchored. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through the step-by-step process of enabling the alarm, adjusting the anchor radius, and understanding how the system alerts you if your vessel drifts outside the selected range.

Selecting System Units on Garmin Screens

Learn how to quickly change and customize the system units on your Garmin multifunction display to suit your boating preferences. In this tutorial, we walk through the step-by-step process of accessing the settings menu, enabling the correct options by turning the ignition on, and selecting between statute, metric, nautical, or fully customized unit settings.

Best Practices and Saving Tracks

Tracking your journey is essential—but without the right approach, it can quickly clutter your navigation system.

In this video, we break down best practices for using track recording efficiently, including when to activate recording, why “wrap” mode is recommended, and how to save your trips as a single journey or in daily segments.

Learn how to keep your system organized while ensuring every important route is recorded and easy to access when you need it.

How to name a route

If you’ve just created a route on your Garmin system, the next important step is saving and naming it for easy access in the future. In this quick tutorial, you’ll learn how to properly store your route and assign a custom name so you can quickly find and reuse it whenever needed.

How to build a route - Garmin

In this tutorial, Garmin’s own Junior Moala walks you through how to plan and create your own navigation routes. You’ll learn the simple steps to build, save, and follow a custom route so you can get out there with confidence. Whether you’re planning a quick day trip or mapping a bigger adventure, this guide helps you use your Garmin device the way it’s meant to be used.

Since Junior Moala is part of the Garmin team, you’re getting insight straight from the source, which makes this especially useful for understanding how to get the best results from the system.