NOAA is offering the most up to date BSB raster charts available for immediate download and use on Mac OS X via the NOAA RNC site.. http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/Raster/download.htm Use the "Textual" Chart Selection method to choose the charts you want to download. The downloaded zip will expand into a folder with the same name. Alternatively you can buy a CD for US$39.95 +$5.. S&H from GPSNavX at http://www.gpsnavx.com/html/rasterDVD.html containing all NOAA U.S. coastal charts, including Alaska, Hawaii, and the Great Lakes. They’re in BSB 3 file format and should work fine with any Mac or PC charting program that reads BSBs—which is just about all of them. Note that the BSB 3 format is not encrypted. Note too that these are the same charts available for free download at NOAA. In case you have not looked at MacENC lately, http://www.gpsnavx.com/MacENC/index.php?page=Screenshots the improvements keep pouring out, thick and fast. Here are the new features for version 2.10: - Annotation rendering speed improved. - Water Temp (TMP:) displayed in the Instruments panel using NMEA sentence $__MTW. - Raster Chart title displayed in Chart window title bar when enabled in "View" menu. - Dragging of raster chart more efficient. - Overview of raster chart more efficient. - Support for Furuno GPS allows transfer of waypoints to and from the GPS. Set GPS type in the GPS panel "Settings" drawer. - COG will be ignored when SOG is less than 0.5 knots. - When a repeat port in the GPS Panel "Settings" drawer is specified and a waypoint is made active the $GPBOD and $GPWPL NMEA sentence will be created and sent in addition to $GPAPB, $GPBWC, $GPRMB and $GPXTE . - NASA single channel AIS receivers will automatically switch channels every 30 seconds. - Displayed BSB 1 - 3 Charts can be "Saved As" TIFF files. Coming soon: - Support for encrypted international S-57 charts. - Configuration utility for Shipmodul Multiplexors. - A significant weather integration announcement. - SailMail client for OS X. Just wish there was 25 hours in a day :) Happy Holidays! ******************************** Mac Charting & Navigation www.gpsnavx.com ********************************