What the vessel state changes
Zora changes what it shows and what it watches with the vessel state, without being asked. This is what happens behind the scenes. To see and change the state, see Vessel state.
The states
| Underway | On the way to a stop | Stopped |
|---|---|---|
| drifting | anchoring | anchored |
| sailing | mooring | moored |
| motoring | docking | docked |
| motor-sailing |
Zora sets the underway states from the sails and the engines. The other six are the ones you declare in the Tools panel. See How the state changes.
A race is not a state. While you race a route, the boat is still sailing or motoring, and Zora switches the screen to its race layouts instead: one before the start, one after it.
The screen follows the state
The DNS, the Dynamic Navigation Screen, has a layout of its own for each state and for the two race layouts. When the state changes, the DNS switches to that state's layout.
Each state comes with a layout to start from. On a landscape screen:
| State | Default layout |
|---|---|
| Drifting | Compass rose, full screen |
| Sailing | Compass rose, AIS and weather |
| Motor-sailing | Compass rose, AIS and engines |
| Motoring | Compass rose, AIS and engines |
| Anchoring | Compass rose, satellite map and chart |
| Anchored | Satellite map, full screen |
| Mooring | Compass rose, full screen |
| Moored | Mooring view, full screen |
| Docking | Compass rose, AIS and chart |
| Docked | Compass rose, full screen |
| Race, before and after the start | The regatta card |
On a portrait screen the anchoring layout is the compass rose alone.
You can change the layout of every state. Layouts are kept per station, per screen size and per orientation, so a tablet and the chart table each keep their own. A station other than default shows the default station's layout for a state until you save that state there. See DNS - Dynamic Navigation Screen.
The Tools panel follows the state too: its tools tab shows the stop you are in, and its data tab has a list of values for each state.
Alarms change with the state
- Depth: the shallow-water alarm has two sets of levels, one for underway and one for every stop state, from anchoring to docked. At anchor or at the dock the boat lies in water it would never sail in, so the stopped levels can be set much shallower. You set both in the depth notification settings.
- AIS: collision warnings also have an underway set and a stopped set. At a stop, only a boat that is moving and getting closer raises a warning, so a neighbour lying still does not. Docked, Zora gives no collision warnings: boats manoeuvring in a marina pass close all the time, and a boat tied up cannot get out of the way. You set both in the AIS notification settings.
- Cross-track error: Zora never warns that you are off the route line while anchoring, mooring, docking or stopped. While sailing it is off by default, because you tack.
- Dragging: at anchor, Zora watches the circle you set and raises the anchor-dragging alarm when the boat leaves it. On a mooring it does the same with the mooring circle. Neither is watched while you are still anchoring or mooring. The alarm brings up the DNS with the anchor or mooring tools open.
- Arrival: sailing, motoring or motor-sailing along a route, Zora warns you before you reach the next point.
What ends when you stop
When you declare the boat anchored, moored or docked:
- the route you were following ends. On the way in, while anchoring, mooring or docking, Zora asks whether to stop it.
- the race you were sailing ends.
What Zora records
- Trips: a trip starts when you leave a stop and ends when the boat is anchored, moored or docked again. Changing from sailing to motoring stays the same trip.
- Track: Zora marks each change of state in the track. Stopped, it records a point every 5 m the boat moves, to show how it swings; underway, every 25 m.
- Polars: Zora learns the boat's performance only while it is sailing.
- Time in the state: the Tools panel shows how long the boat has been in its state. It survives a restart.