Draw & Navigate™

Finding fish is only part of the challenge. Keeping your boat around fish can require almost as much attention as fishing itself. Instead of focusing on your next cast, you're making steering adjustments, correcting your position, and trying to stay on the pattern that's producing fish.

That's exactly why Minn Kota developed Draw & Navigate. Just draw a course with your finger right on your fish finder, and your Minn Kota trolling motor takes over navigating along the path. Getting to a spot is easier than ever.

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• Using Draw & Navigate
• Cancelling Navigation
• Deleting i-Tracks
• Resources
  • Finding Software Updates

Using Draw & Navigate

NOTE: As the captain of your boat, you're solely responsible for its safe operation and navigation at all times. Draw & Navigate is designed to serve as a supplemental aid, not a replacement for attentive boat operation.

Draw & Navigate is available when using X Series, A Series, XPLORE, APEX or SOLIX G3 fish finders along with an integrated Minn Kota trolling motor with Advanced GPS Navigation. To use this feature, make sure your Minn Kota fish finders, trolling motor and accessories are up to date on software, see Finding Software Updates.

1. Press Home on your fish finder.
2. Select a Chart view (full screen recommended). If there is more than one window open on your fish finder, tap the Chart view to make it active.
3. To have the trolling motor propeller speed and direction automatically engage, enable Prop Auto On.

   1. Press the Propeller icon on the right sidebar.

      

   2. Tap the Gear icon on the trolling motor remote.

      

   3. Turn on Prop Auto On and press the X in the upper right corner.

      

       

4. Place the area you wish to draw an i-Track on in the center of your Chart view.

5. Press the Navigation button in the top right corner of the screen or use the Navigation or Go To  button on the physical keypad.

   

6. One the right, select Draw & Navigate.

   

7. The Chart zoom level will change automatically to make it easier for you to draw your i-Track. If desired, the map can be zoomed in further. Draw your i-Track using your fingertip and lift your finger when done. The i-Track will appear as a thick orange line. Maximum i-Track length is 2 miles.  To re-draw the i-Track, press the Undo button at the top of the screen, shown below.

   

8. When ready, tap Go at the top of the screen. Once Go is pressed, the i-Track is saved as an i-Track. The i-Track can be saved for use later, by instead, pressing the Save icon  at the top of the screen. 

   The picture below shows a Draw & Navigate i-Track encircled with the Go and Save buttons highlighted.

   

9. Monitor the route while navigating and make adjustments, if needed, using the trolling motor remote or the fish finder onscreen controls. Keep in mind the following:
   Actions that Pause Draw & Navigate
   • Spot-Lock
   • Steering the trolling motor with Dodge Enabled
    
   Actions that Stop Draw & Navigate
   • Steering the trolling motor with Dodge Disabled
   • Using a trolling motor navigation feature other than Spot-Lock or Dodge 
   • Pressing the Navigation/Go To button on the fish finder and selecting Cancel Navigation

     

10. When the Draw & Navigate event is completed or cancelled, an option to save or discard the i-Track will appear on screen.

    

Cancelling Navigation

1. To cancel Draw & Navigate, do one of the following:
   • Manually steer the trolling motor from the trolling motor foot pedal or remote, app or fish finder with Dodge off
   • Press the X button on the trolling motor remote
   • Tap X on the trolling motor remote in the Minn Kota Fishing App.

   • From the fish finder, select the Navigation in the top right corner of the chart view and click Cancel Navigation

     Cancel Draw & Navigate (i-Track) from Trolling Motor Remote

     

     Cancel Draw & Navigate from Minn Kota Fishing App

     

     Cancelling Navigation on a fish finder

     1.  Press the Navigation button on screen or on the keypad.

        

     2. Choose Cancel Navigation near the upper right corner.

        

Deleting i-Tracks

1. To prevent the trolling motor from restoring deleted i-Tracks on your fish finder, disable Trolling Motor Sync.

   Trolling Motor Sync

   Press Home Tap on My Data in the lower left corner On the left, choose My Data Settings On the top right, please make sure Trolling Motor Sync is off. This will prevent the trolling motor from re-sending i-Tracks to the fish finder that have already been deleted on the fish finder

2. On the left, select i-Tracks.

   

3. To delete an i-Track, press and hold on the i-Track.

   

4. Select the Delete icon on the left side of the screen.

   

5. To delete more than one i-Track, press the Check Box above the i-Track to select all the i-Tracks created on that date.

   

6. Tap Delete on the top of the screen.

   

    

Resources

• Finding Software Updates