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Access Navionics Charts and Features on Raymarine Lighthouse 3 and 4 Plotters

Lighthouse 3 and 4 software is available in the Raymarine Axiom, eS and gS, and Element series plotters.

Plotter Software

IMPORTANT: Plotter manufacturer’s latest software updates required.

Check your plotter’s software by going through the following steps:

  1. Go to your Home screen
  2. Tap Settings
  3. Tap Getting started

Current chart plotter/sounder software update versions

NOTE: Do not use your Navionics® card to update your plotter software or have it in your plotter when you update!


Chart Layers

Make sure the Navionics chart options in are selected by doing the following:

  1. Open the Chart Menu
  2. Tap Settings
  3. Select Cartography

You can switch your chart layers in the main Chart Menu.

Detailed = Nautical Chart – official charting detail

Fishing Chart = SonarChart™ – high-definition bottom contour detail


Navionics Recommended Chart Settings

To access Chart Layers do the following:
  1. Open Chart Menu 
  2. Select Settings 
  3. Select Layers

In the Layers tab, you can adjust the options below:

  • Chart Details (Low, Medium, or High)
  • Tides (On) - Tide/Current station graphic
  • Easy View (On/Off) - Text and icon magnifying feature
  • [Navionics] Community Edits (On/Off)

To access depths and contours do the following:

  1. Open the Chart Menu 
  2. Select Settings 
  3. Tap Depths

In the Depths tab you can adjust the options below:

  • Show sounding (All)
  • Show contours (All)

To access Advanced features do the following:

  1. Open the Chart Menu
  2. Select Settings
  3. Tap Advanced
  4. 2D Shading (On/Off) - Gives maps a textured view

Features Available with Navionics Platinum+™ Cartography

Map Overlays

To access Satellite Imagery, Relief Shading or Sonar Imagery do the following:

  1. Open the Chart Menu 
  2.  Select Settings 
  3.  Select Layers
  4. Select Aerial (Land and sea)
    Aerial overlay opacity: 100% = Full Overlay (harder to see chart details) or 0% = Less Overlay (harder to see overlay details)

NOTE: Using the Fishing Zone advanced feature with a map overlay, the overlay will not display in the area between the selected depths.

Panoramic Photos

To access settings for Panoramic Photos do the following: 

  1. Open the Chart Menu 
  2. Select Settings 
  3. Select Advanced
  4. Select Panoramic Photos: ON

Target a camera icon on the chart using your cursor and select the pop-up to display detailed information.


Navionics Advanced Features

Advanced Features are included with an active subscription for updates on your chart plotter card.
Not all features are available for all models. See our compatibility guide for the most current information.

Advanced Map Options

  1. Open the Chart Menu 
  2. Select Settings 
  3. Select Depths

Density – density of contours displayed on SonarChart layer

Fishing zone – select a range of depths to fill with a different color

Shallow depth shading – highlights shallow water between 0 and up to 10m/30ft

SonarChart Live

  1. Open to Chart Menu 
  2. Select Settings 
  3.  Select Depths

ON = Sonar logging enabled; SonarChart Live enabled
OFF = Sonar logging disabled; SonarChart Live disabled
Visibility – 100% = Full Overlay (harder to see chart details) or 0% = Less Overlay (harder to see overlay details)
Tide correction – Allows contours to be adjusted according to nearest tide station in tidal waters

Dock-to-dock Route Guidance

IMPORTANT: Dock-to-dock Route Guidance is for planning purposes only and does not replace safe navigation operations.

Before using, from your Home screen select Settings > Boat details to enter your boat configuration.

To build a route between two points using the Dock-to-dock feature:

  1. Select and hold on the location for the first waypoint
  2. Select Build route from the context menu
  3. Select the position for the second waypoint
  4. Select Autoroute to here from the context menu

To build a route from a selected waypoint:

  1. Select the existing waypoint’s context menu
  2. Select Autoroute to
  3. Select the chosen destination point

To build a route to a selected point on the chart:

  1. Select and hold on the location or existing waypoint
  2. Select Autoroute to here from the context menu
  3. Route will be built from that location

Once you have reviewed your route and it is complete, select Finish route build.

NOTE: Dock-to-dock Route Guidance will not create a route when the start or end point is in an unsafe area (such as on land).

Plotter Sync

Plotter Sync allows you to transfer routes and markers, upload sonar logs, and update charts on your plotter card from the Navionics Boating app on a mobile device.