Crabber Towboat Lanes Data Loading Instructions from USB Flash Drive (aka "thumb drive") P-Sea WindPlot II© Data Loading Instructions (These instructions are written for P-Sea WindPlot II version 7.25.10. Other versions may have a slightly different procedure.) 1. Open the P-Sea WindPlot program. The WindPlot file is a "Marks" file, with the towboat lanes being linked marks. 2. Back up your existing plotter data to the hard drive or an external flash drive (recommended). 3. Insert the Crabber Towlane flash drive into a USB port on the computer. If a new window opens on top of P-Sea WindPlot, note the letter designating the drive and then close the new window--for example it might be "E", "F" "G" or some other letter. You will load the data through the P-Sea WindPlot program. 4. Go to the upper left corner and click on the DATA menu, then select Marks from the pull down menu. IMPORTANT--you want to pull down the DATA menu at the top left, not the Marks menu that is next to it to the right. DATA>Marks will open a new window that will give you the opportunity to get data or save data. Select the thumbdrive from the pull down Drive menu. IMPORTANT--check the box to ADD TO your marks, otherwise this data will replace all your existing marks. It will create duplicate marks if you have loaded an earlier version of Crabber Towlane data, but you can "Search for duplicates" which will remove all duplicate marks. After you select ADD TO and the drive letter, select the button that says "GET". The window will show you getting data from the thumbdrive and adding it to RAM. You can confirm the addtion of Crabber Towlane marks by going to an area nearshore and look for the towlanes, which are marks that are linked together. In P-Sea WindPlot, not of the colors match the standards used in other programs. Please refer to the paper copy of Towlane charts to see which lanes are summer only or advisory lanes. 5. One the Data>Marks menu, save from RAM to C: to copy the data to you computer. You can now remove the thumbdrive. Rose Point Coastal Explorer© Data Loading Instructions (These instructions were created for loading data into Coastal Explorer version 2009. Other versions may have a slightly different procedure.) Open the Coastal Explorer program. 1. Back up your existing fishing data to the hard drive or an external drive (recommended). 2. Insert the Crabber Towlanes flash drive into a USB port on the computer. If a window opens, note the letter designating the drive--for example it might be "E", "F" "G" or some other letter and then close the window. You will load the data from within the Coastal Explorer program. 3. Using your trackball or mouse move your cursor to the “File” menu in the upper left corner and click the left button. A menu will drop down. Select “Import…”. 4. The Import Navigation Objects window will open asking where to import the navigation objects from. Left click on the small button “Some other file on My Computer” then left click on the “Select File…” button. A new window will open. Locate the flash drive from the list. Select the Crabber Towlanes flash drive that was plugged in. (#2 above). 5. Move your cursor over the file "2015 Crabber Towlanes for Coastal Explorer.nob" and click the left button to select it. Move your cursor to the “Open” button in the lower left of the window and left click. 6. The crabber towlanes should be shown on your display. Move your plotter to a towlane area to confirm that the data has loaded. 7. In the lower right corner of your monitor look for the icon that says, “Safely Remove Hardware …”. Click on this with your left trackball button or left mouse button. Select the flash drive to eject. You may then remove the flash drive. Nobeltec Visual Navigation Suite© Data Loading Instructions (These instructions are based on Nobeltec VNS version 7.1.900. Loading this data in other versions of Nobeltec may require a slightly different procedure.) 1. Open the Nobeltec Program. 2. Back up your data to the hard drive. Pull down the File menu in the upper left corner and select the Save All (Nav Objects)or export your data to an external flash drive (recommended). 3. Insert the Crabber Towlane flash drive into a USB port on the computer. If a window opens, note the letter designating the drive and then close the window. 4. Open the “File” menu in Nobeltec, select “Navigation Objects”, then move your cursor to the right to see the choices. Select “Import Objects…”. The Import Navigation Objects window opens with the default file directory of your hard drive. Select the “Browse” button, pull down the menu expansion button (downward pointing triangle) to the right of the Nobeltec Community folder. A menu will expand down. Select the drive with the Crabber Towlane flash drive. 5. Select the file "2015 Crabber Towlanes for Nobeltec & Olex.txt" 6. Click on “Open”. 7. The Import Navigation Objects window returns, with your selected file and drive shown. Click on the “Import All” button. 8. Click on the “OK” or “Done” button (This is important!). 9. The undersea cable areas and safety zones should be shown on your display. Move your chart to see the crabber towlanes to confirm that the data hasloaded. 10. In the lower right corner of your monitor look for the icon that says, “Safely Remove Hardware …”. Click on this with your left trackball button or left mouse button. Select the flash drive to eject. You may remove the flash drive. Maptech Offshore Navigator© Data Loading Instructions (These instructions were written for Offshore Navigator version 5.08. Other versions may have a slightly different procedure.) 1. Open the Maptech Offshore Navigator program. 2. Back up your existing fishing data to the hard drive or an external drive (recommended). 3. Insert Crabber Towlane flash drive into a USB port on the computer. If a new window opens on top of the Maptech Offshore Navigator program, note the letter designating the drive and then close the new window. The data will be loaded through the Offshore Navigator program. 4. In the upper left corner, left click on “File” to open the dropdown menu. 5. Highlight “Import Data from File…” and left click. The “Import Data from File” window will open. 6. The “Origin of Data” cell should read “Offshore Navigator 4.x/5.x". If this is not displayed, select from the dropdown menu using the down arrow at the right side of the cell. This data is in Offshore Navigator Version 5.08 format. 7. Left click on the “Browse” button. A new window called “Maptech Select Directory from which to Import Data” will open. First, go to the “Drives” cell on the bottom of the pane, and using the dropdown menu arrow on the right of the cell, select the flash drive just inserted. Left click on the selected drive. 8. In the “Folders” window, select the folder “2015 Crabber Towlanes for Maptech" and left click “OK”. 9. The “Import Data from File” window will reappear. Left click on “Import…”. The “Import Routes” window will open with the towlanes listed. Left click on the “Import All” button. 10. Move your screen to the area of the crabber towlanesto confirm that the lanes are being displayed. Once you confirm that the towboat lanes are displayed, you can remove the flash drive. In the lower right corner of your monitor look for the icon that says, “Safely Remove Hardware …”. If found, click on this with your left trackball button or left mouse button. Select the flash drive to eject. You may remove the flash drive. OLEX Data Loading Instructions 1. Open the OLEX program. Back up your existing fishing data (recommended). 2. Insert the RSN flash drive into a USB port on the computer. 3. Open the “Settings” menu. 4. Click on the box to read data and software. 5. Select the flash drive just inserted. 6. Select the "2015 Carbber Towlanes for Nobeltec & OLEX.txt" file. In OLEX ver 7.19 (Dec. 25, 2009) the program was modified to accept Nobeltec data. You must have OLEX ver. 7.19 or later to use this thumbdrive data from the Nobeltec file.