Home Screen

You may have chosen to start OpenCPN at the end of the installation. If not start the program now. You will be presented with a screen like this:

1.0

Control areas are displayed on the screen. Many of the options will be explained later. The focus in this manual will be the options needed for basic use.

1.1

  • Tool Bar

Hamburger 1.2 Clicking on the tool bar 'hamburger' symbol makes the tool bar contract/expand.

  • Chart Panel Options

Hamburger 1.3 The chart panel 'hamburger' opens/closes the panel to display a number of options.

  • Compass/GPS Status Window

  • Status Bar