I don’t know how it works on an ocean, but on my race s the direction is auto detected.
If the route has tbt alerts, those are applied either way the direction I walk/run/bike the route.
If I have reached the destination, the route is still available.
No need to go into menu’s the choose a direction, just start.
On my 2 previous garmins, this worked different.
I had to choose in advance which way to go (and on a round trip it wasn’t easy to see on the map which way to start)
If you followed a route the other way around without setting it in the settings you had a course error warning on your screen, all the time.
When you selected the route to be followed in opposite direction you would loose tbt alerts.
And if you reached destination, the route disappeared from your screen. Way to many times when I wanted to follow a round trip, the stupid watch concluded I reached my destination before I even stared and the watch ended navigation. So you have to go into settings and select the route again.
I understand your wish to follow a route in opposite direction, but don’t envy garmin users. Envy suunto users with a running sport watch.
