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Select the “Untitled” folder in the SD card in the popup window.

Right-click on the route name on the left side of the screen.

TRANSFER ROUTE TO CHARTPLOTTER WITHOUT WIFIīy default, the HomePort route is saved on the hard drive of your computer, not on the SD card. Give your route a more descriptive name, keeping in mind how many characters your chartplotter will show (anything more than that will just be chopped off). This is absolutely horrible when you are trying to find the correct route on the chartplotter! In the route list on the left side of the screen, right-click on the route and then click on rename.

You’ll notice that your route has a “name” that is just waypoint numbers, such as 701-710.

As you hold your mouse over the route, a little box will appear with the route distance and a time estimate (this is only as accurate as your boat details that are entered in Utilities > Manage Boat Profiles in HomePort).

Double and triple-check your route for hazards while zoomed in.

There’s also an erase feature (looks like an eraser in the toolbar) - click it, then click on the waypoint you want to erase. If you need to move a waypoint, use Move Point and drag it to the correct position. You can click on Active Captain notes to read local knowledge or reviews of anchorages and marinas. Go back to the start area, and now click on “Insert” (one to the left of Move). Click on the pink line, then click where the first waypoint (after the starting point) should be.Click on where you put your start point and drag it to the actual starting point, then release the mouse.

Click on “Move Point” (three to the right of New Route).

Now zoom in on your starting point, using the mouse wheel and dragging the map (using Pan) as needed.

You’ll have a straight pink line going from your approximate start to finish. Now click near your starting point (it doesn’t have to be exact - just get close-ish), then click near your destination (again, just get near).

Click on the three connected green boxes (New Route) your mouse pointer will turn into a pencil.

It does not matter if you can see the exact detail of the start and end point now. Then use a combination of your mouse wheel to zoom in and out and click and drag to reposition the map so that both the start and end points of your trip are on the screen.

Click on the hand symbol in the toolbar (Pan) that’s just above the red arrow in the screenshot above.

I find it extremely helpful to have a mouse with a scroll wheel. I am sure that there are other ways to create a route. This is how I create a route - the process is not exactly intuitive and I never found a good how-to. The higher resolution will NOT show up until the scale is less than 10 miles (the scale is shown in the bottom right corner) - use your mouse wheel to change the scale if necessary.

What is listed as “Global Map” is very low res don’t use it. If there is more than one other chart (for some reason there are two others on mine), try each to see which is the higher resolution.

Open Garmin HomePort on the computer and choose the correct chart.

You have to use the card every time - there is no way to copy the charts to the hard drive and have HomePort read them from there.

Put the SD card in your computer’s SD card slot.

When complete, you can remove the SD card and turn the chartplotter off. Select and wait for it to copy the maps (takes a minute or so). On ours - and all Garmin models seem to be pretty similar, but perhaps not exactly - the menu sequence is as follows, starting from the “Home” screen: Information > User Data > Data Transfer > Card > Copy Built-In Map.

Put the SD card into the chartplotter and turn the chartplotter on.

I recommend having a card that you use just for HomePort, it makes life much simpler. If you don’t have one on hand, you can buy them at most big-box stores, computer stores, even some grocery stores and pharmacies (they’re the same data cards that most digital cameras use) or you can get one for less than $6 on Amazon: 16GB micro SD card with adapter.

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Charts generally take over 8GB, plus you need space to store the routes. My old chartplotter used a full-size SD card newer Garmin chartplotters use a micro SD card that must be used with an adapter in most laptops to make it fit a slot for a full-size SD card.

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Download and install HomePort from here.

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