Raymarine Axiom

Global marine electronics brand, Raymarine, is rolling out new fishing features to its Axiom range of displays including a new Smart Drift feature and advanced boat control directly from the display.

The Lighthouse 4.7 software upgrade is scheduled for August 2024 and as part of the new release, Axiom users can experience total boat control, directly from their chartplotter display, of both Power-Pole Shallow Water Anchors and all Move Brushless trolling motor models, including the new Move Offshore available in 84-, 96-, and 110-inch lengths.

Raymarine has also revealed that the South Florida chart for Florida Marine Tracks, now compatible with Axiom displays, will be on sale in August 2024.

Power-Pole integration
Axiom users will be able to stow and deploy Power-Pole Shallow Water Anchors and control all Move trolling motor models – directly from their chartplotter display. They will also be able to take advantage of the Power-Pole Move’s navigation controls and switch between the Move trolling motor and Raymarine Evolution autopilot while navigating a route or waypoint.

Key features for Axiom and the Shallow Water Anchors include: 

  • Precise manual control of stow and deploy of single or dual anchors
  • One-touch auto stow or deploy of single or dual anchors

Key features for Axiom and Move Brushless Trolling Motor include: 

  • Navigate to point or follow a route
  • Anchor with jog mode, precisely hold a position, then jog 5ft with a single press
  • Precise heading or course over ground control with speed control
  • Manual steering control 

Smart Drift
The new Smart Drift feature in the Axiom chartplotter is designed to take the guesswork out of starting a drift when bottom fishing, deep dropping or fishing over wrecks. To calculate a drift, anglers can select a chart location or use Axiom’s sonar history feature to scroll back the fishfinder timeline and identify interesting bottom structure or a wreck for a drift-start location. Smart Drift then creates a drift vector line and start location. Users can position the boat over the start location to start the drift and in the selected timeframe, the boat will end its drift at the selected waypoint. The drift vector time is adjustable, allowing anglers to extend the drift time to better prepare tackle and gear.

Florida Marine Tracks
Raymarine also announced that the South Florida chart for Axiom displays by Florida Marine Tracks will be available for purchase by ISLA Mapping as early as August 2024. The new chart compatibility does not require the upcoming Lighthouse 4.7 software upgrade. Florida Marine Tracks offers thousands of miles of precisely drawn detailed navigation tracks for flats, bay boats and other shallow-water boats running in challenging areas. Florida Marine Tracks maps are corrected to provide the precise location of navigation aids, including daymarkers, buoys and signs, as well as concrete abutments, PVC stakes and Everglades navigational aids. The native Florida Marine Tracks aerial imagery features resolution ranging from 3 inches to 1ft. According to Raymarine, this enables anglers to zoom in with clarity from 50 to 100ft with no loss of resolution. Axiom 2 Pro and Axiom 2 XL’s six-core processor delivers fast redraws and high-definition renderings of Florida Marine Tracks high-resolution fish charts.

“We have always tried to make our Axiom displays more robust and user friendly, and these new fishing features give users the tools they need for a successful day on the water,” says Jamie Dery, vice president of Raymarine Americas. “Whether running in the shallows with Florida Marine Tracks, anchoring with your Power-Pole Shallow Water Anchor system, sneaking up on your target fish with Power-Pole Move Trolling Motor or setting your boat for a drift to a nearby wreck, Axiom gives you all of that functionality and more with easy-to-use, touchscreen controls.”

Power-Pole integration, Smart Drift feature, along with other fishing and boating benefits will be released as part of the Axiom Lighthouse 4.7 upgrade, scheduled for August 2024.

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