[Gord01]

I use Nobeltec Version 4.1 of Visual Mariner. It is great, solid, reliable, no problems. Recently I upgraded to vesion 6.5 and immeadiately ran into problems with the system. First, the really neat images are only available if you buy all new charts! Well OK, but most of the new features were bells and whistles around the new 3D images. Then the system begun to hang and then crashed, ultimately corrupting my application. So reload was the only option. When I went to reload, it demanded a special password obtained only from Nobeltec by phone (copy protection you know, they can''t be too safe), so I dialed the number and got a recorded message that they are closed on Weekends. Wow, I''m in the middle of the Bay, my software that got me here is corrupted and Nobletec says call back on Monday and we will give you the password to reload the program. No way. I reloaded 4.1 and sent 6.5 back for a refund. People are trusting their lives to this application and have no way to reload the program in case of an emergency. Don''t buy it!