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:

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.

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

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