Stuck with radar *SPOLIERS*

[Chirality]

Hi all, i'm so confused please help.
I cant for the life of me figure the radar/receiver.
I managed to find the radio tower, and in there, a new "location" 5955 Vasagatan
SO, I fire up my receiver, and theres a new green dot, and a bit blue dot with like, arrows round it. Spend 2 hours trying to get to either, failed, ended up following what i thought was the green dot, ended up right back at the sodding radio tower!!!?
Please, if anyone can advise how to use this thing I'd much appreciate. I've watched a tonne of videos but really struggling.
Cant seem to ever go the right direction, regardless of the way my sail points, the distance measures get further and further, resort to literally paddling, which takes HOURS.
Any help for idiots would be really appreciated, it's killing my love of the game :(

[Grezko]

Originally posted by Chirality:

Hi all, i'm so confused please help.
I cant for the life of me figure the radar/receiver.
I managed to find the radio tower, and in there, a new "location" 5955 Vasagatan
SO, I fire up my receiver, and theres a new green dot, and a bit blue dot with like, arrows round it. Spend 2 hours trying to get to either, failed, ended up following what i thought was the green dot, ended up right back at the sodding radio tower!!!?
Please, if anyone can advise how to use this thing I'd much appreciate. I've watched a tonne of videos but really struggling.
Cant seem to ever go the right direction, regardless of the way my sail points, the distance measures get further and further, resort to literally paddling, which takes HOURS.
Any help for idiots would be really appreciated, it's killing my love of the game :(

You need to input the code for the Vasagatan in your receiver(check your journal by clicking "T", just to be extra sure that those are the numbers). And then switch on the radio. I would strongly suggest you put at least one streamer so you can figure out the wind direction.

[Chirality]

I did that, I put in the code, and I have several streamers, but the radar took me right back to the tower. x

[SparkPlug]

Have you picked up all the notes at the tower... one should be a new code for Vasagatan... check your journal.

[Sigh-Phi-Guy]

place the "receiver" facing the front of the raft.
visualize the radar circle as a clock face.
front(bow) is 12, right(starboard) is 3, rear(aft) is 6, and left(port) is 9.
if the blip(dot) is at 7, you need to turn hard to port until the blip is at 12.
you will need an engine to reach anything between 4 through 8 oclock.

[Hades]

Sorry to hijack, but was just in the radio tower and a bunch of "notes" were added, including I presume the coords for Vasagatan. Maybe I'm blind but how do you accewe the journal to read these notes and get the coords?!

Edit: nevermind, you press T. for some reason this key description is "Distance" it should be "Journal"

[Hades]

You can also "tack", which is a sailing term you might want to look up. Actually read up on sailing and tacking to help you understand.

You can't sail into the wind, but you can sail facing 45 degrees into it to make progress, then turn your sail and "tack" the other 45 degrees the other way.