Route Editor — draw, edit, and reorder waypoints

Plot a route on the chart by tapping waypoints, then move, insert, delete, or reorder them.

Routes are a sequence of waypoints. Each waypoint is a tap on the chart. Tap to add. Tap a waypoint pin to open its callout: the move button arms tap-to-place, so your next tap on the water moves that pin, and the trash button deletes it. Tap-and-hold on a leg line drops a new waypoint into that leg. The leg line between waypoints shows distance. A route carries no planned speed, so nothing computes an ETA from it; the total distance for a whole route is on the Routes list.

Steps

1. Start a route

   Open Chart → New Route. Each tap on the chart drops a waypoint.

2. Insert or delete waypoints

   Tap an existing waypoint for its callout — move on the left, delete on the right. Tap-and-hold on a leg line to insert a waypoint mid-leg. The origin and destination pins offer move only; neither can be deleted here.

3. Reorder or reverse

   On the Routes list, open a row's ☰ menu. Reorder opens that route's waypoint list — tap Edit, then drag by the handles. Reverse flips the saved route in place; it does not leave a copy behind.

4. Save the route

   Tap Save. A route saves with a name, its waypoints and optional notes — and a colour, a favourite flag and the date it was last checked against the charts. There is NO planned speed on a route, and therefore no ETA: the chart shows distance per leg and nothing computes a time from it. Speed and timing belong to the leg you fly the route on.

5. Auto-route and depth

   Auto-route can plot a leg for you ('Auto-route this leg'). It needs your draft: the planner keeps you over water charted at least your minimum operating depth, which is 1.5 × draft + 2 ft unless you set your own minimum or your own margin on the vessel. Inside a verified maintained channel — a charted dredged area, or a Corps of Engineers maintained reach, both surveyed to a maintained depth — everything above 1.5 × draft comes off, your +2 ft or your own margin included, so the floor there is 1.5 × draft (or your own minimum, if you set one lower). It is never higher in a channel than in open water. The Reroute editor you open mid-trip is the exception — its wand asks for draft + 5 ft instead. Water it cannot prove that deep, including water with no sounding, is treated as impassable. It never assumes unknown water is safe. If no safe path exists, auto-route says so instead of guessing.

   When it refuses, the sheet shows its working: the deepest path it found, the depth this leg needed, and the draft and margin that figure came from. Every one of those is a number you can go and check.

   If theONE does not have your draft, the refusal now says so in as many words rather than quoting one. The red rings it draws over water too shallow for you are held back for the same reason: with no draft there is no threshold, and a warning drawn around the wrong water is worse than no warning at all.

6. Shallow water on your route

   Once theONE has your draft, it checks the charted depth along the route you draw. A waypoint in water charted shallower than your draft plus your operating depth margin turns red and its pin carries a warning triangle in place of the map pin; VoiceOver reads it as Shallow water. A leg that crosses such water is drawn red, wider and dashed, so it stands out from the rest of the line even if you cannot tell red from magenta. On auto-route's suggested routes, the caution marker where one crosses shallow water is named for VoiceOver too.

Related

• Chart — what the chart and map show youRead the chart view — your vessel's position, course over ground, breadcrumb track, and the chart layers underneath.
• Follow a route — go-from-here and the next waypointFollow a saved route: the chart shows cross-track error and distance to go.
• Add or edit a legHow legs work and how to change one.
• Share a route with someoneSend a route you've built to another captain, or to a chartplotter or another app.
• Open a route someone sent youAdd a route that arrived by AirDrop, message, email or file — including a GPX from a plotter or another app.

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