Definitely make the most of getting onto different boats. I am not a stinkpotter fan, so I am unlikely ever to own one, but it was a good way to experience all

Definitely make the most of getting onto different boats. I am not a stinkpotter fan, so I am unlikely ever to own one, but it was a good way to experience all kinds of different craft. The 3d rendering in the original PC product was kind of a "why not" with OpenGL acceleration just becoming somewhat common. It was very cool looking and was a good combination of bathymetric data with the charts of the time. Mind you, we still had to deal with different geodetic data depending on the chart supplier. Seamlessly navigating from a NAD27 chart to a WGS84 chart was probably the most important feature at the time. Interfacing with as many random pseudo-compliant NMEA 0183 devices was the other. Autopilots that don't respect zero padding is a fun one when it comes to headings. :-)