[ThirdHatt]

I am about to close on a new-to-me boat with a fairly recent glass bridge system running Nobeltec 8. I would like to add satellite weather, so apparently I will need to purchase a $379 upgrade to either Admiral 9 or Admiral Max Pro (10) which uses the preferred C-Map charts.

This sounds easy until I learned that the Max Pro software has had some issues with bugs causing crashes, etc. I would think just go to Admiral 9 because it works well, but now I learn that Jeppesen has just abandoned Nobeltec and sold it to Signet. Unfortunately, everyone involved is being tight-lipped about the future of Nobeltec and any future support.

Interestingly, Furuno owns a large percentage of Signet so I wonder what the possibilities are for serious support and continued development of the Max Pro software and beyond for Nobeltec.

What are those who are running Nobeltec to do?

[dennismc]

The Max Pro software is pretty poor for chart resolution, I did the upgrade from version 9 to Max Pro and wish I had not, the problem being that Nobeltec does stop supporting older versions and so you have to be careful of that, I do at least still have ver 9 on a backup laptop if needed, the Max charts I have on a Raymarine system are awful things.