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Introducing route sharing with Raymarine Axiom
May 23, 2025 • 3 min read
Orca partners up with Raymarine for better boating.
Getting your planning right can be the difference between a great and challenging day at sea. As a boater, you want to understand the weather conditions and where you may face navigation challenges.
Orca excels at planning. It offers beautiful charts, accurate weather forecasts, and weather-aware routing – along with a curated list of anchorages and marinas to visit. Because Orca runs on all your devices, from your phone to your Mac, it is always ready when you want to plan that next trip.
For many boaters, the traditional chartplotter is primarily a navigation tool. A big reason for this is that the chartplotter is mounted onboard, while planning is often done at home.
To deliver great planning to even more boaters, Orca has partnered with Raymarine. Starting today, you can now share routes from Orca to your Raymarine Axiom with the press of a button.
Fantastic routes – now on your Axiom
Orca creates routes for powerboats and sailboats that consider weather forecasts, your boat’s performance, and your navigation preferences. Just search for your destination, and Orca will take care of the rest. Wondering how the weather forecast will be along the route? Orca gives you the answer right away.
Pan along the route to see precisely how the weather will be for your journey.
A great consequence of effortless route planning is that you can quickly evaluate different destinations. You can also easily see how adding stops along the way affects the trip duration and the weather you will experience along the route.
Many boaters use the Orca App as a companion to their traditional chartplotter. While Orca has offered sharing of routes via .GPX files, getting these files onto a chartplotter can be inconvenient. To streamline this process, Orca now integrates directly with Raymarine Axioms, making route sharing effortless.
Orca now integrates with Raymarine Axioms.
Sharing a route in an instant
Sharing routes from Orca to Axiom is effortless. Just plan your route from Orca, and press “Send to Axiom”, and the route will appear on your Axiom moments later.
Prepare the route on Orca, and send it directly your Axiom.
To view the route on your Axiom, go to your Routes List, and you’ll find the Orca route at the top of your list. It is really that simple. No SD-cards or cumbersome syncing process required.
Plans can change while you are underway. Orca’s Automatic Rerouting will adjust your route if you deviate from your plan or when the weather forecast changes. To update the route on your Axiom, press “Send to Axiom” again, and Orca will update the active route on the Axiom.
Update your route in the Orca app, and accept the change on your Axiom.
The partnership between Raymarine and Orca sets a new standard for route sharing between mobile devices and chartplotters. Own an Axiom and want to make planning a breeze? Update your Axiom to the latest version and follow the Setup Guide to get started.
Upgrade your boat
If you own an Axiom or have another chartplotter onboard, then Orca Core is the perfect companion for your traditional plotter.
While the Orca app gives you fantastic route sharing out of the box, adding an Orca Core to your Axiom-powered boat will give you wireless autopilot control from your phone and tablet, radar controls, and instruments – along with an industry-leading GPS and compass and a fantastic Sailing Processor for better wind data on you plotter and mobile devices.
Orca Core 2 delivers high-end chartplotter functionality to your phone, tablet, computer, and watch.
If you are looking for a truly modern navigation system that gives you complete control of your boat and helps you plan better – Orca is an easy choice. Get your Orca with a 30-day satisfaction guarantee and free express shipping via the Orca Store.
