Furuno MFD8 Guía Del Usuario

2.  Chart Plotter

This section describes the alarms available with the chart plotter:

• XTE alarm

• Anchor watch alarm

• Proximity alarm

• Depth alarm

•  Sea surface temperature alarm

•  Sea surface temperature shear

• Speed alarm

•  Trip log alarm

• Countdown timer

• Alarm clock

The XTE alarm tells you when your vessel is not on course by more than the set value. 
When the XTE alarm is active, two dashed lines mark the XTE alarm boundaries, red 
for starboard, green for port.

The anchor watch alarm tells you that your vessel has moved a distance greater than 
the set value when the vessel must not be moving.

Destination 
waypoint

Own ship
position

Alarm
setting

Intended
course

Alarm

Your ship's position where 
you start the anchor watch 
alarm.

: Alarm
  area

Alarm
setting