• Designed for Touch-Screen use (additional functionality for mouse users)
• Real-time tracking of ship's position and velocity directly on the chart
• Easy chart panning, zooming and level changing
• Tracking of AIS* targets
• Tracking of ARPA Radar* targets
• Visual analysis of wind* direction and strength and advanced optimum upwind sailing tools
• Extensive detail on all chart objects (depths, lights, ports, facilities etc)
• Configurable Anti-Grounding function
• Location specific tide predictions with daily graphs and easy date picker
• One-touch range and bearing lines
• Comprehensive route planning and tracking
• Autopilot* control when tracking a route
• Automatic search route creation (grid or circular)
• Comprehensive Man-Over-Board feature
• Compatible with C-Map FP & NT+ & MAX Chart Cartridges & C-Map Card Readers
• Read/write C-Map UserCards
• Dead-reckoning mode (including dead reckoning true-wind)
• Voyage replay function
• Dampening/Calibrating option for all incoming data
• "Talking Pilot" feature

* Appropriate hardware devices required

• Dedicated MAX feature additions are here: Online SOB User Manual Page
  
• New Feature Descriptions for v6 Update for SOBvMAX 
  (PDF Format - edited 11 April 2006)

• Detailed New Feature Descriptions for SOBv90 (PDF Format)
  Edited 29 Oct 2005 - Now Includes v90.5 additions

Full descriptions of new features SOBv66 RELEASE NOTES.pdf

Routes

• Route file management with the New "All Routes" Form with Import/Export facilities from any drive, folder, file, GPS or C-MAP User Card
• Load/Unload Routes into current SOB session.
• Maximum TurnMarks per Route now unlimited (limited only by available disk space/RAM)
• More Route detail in Navigation ViewPanel 
• Convert PastTrack and GPS NMEA messages (RTE/WPL) to a Route
• Convert a Route leg to a GreateCircle, or back to a RhumbLine
• Routes can be “Reversed”
• TurnMarks can be renamed from “RouteDetail” form
• Labels of TurnMark can display on chart
• Individual Legs can have their own estimated speed for “Route Hypotheticals” and planning
• Route Files will be saved to the “\archived” folder before being over-written
• Auto Search Route creation
• Create Route from PastTrack 
• Capture Routes from GPS (GPS must output RTE and WPL NMEA Sentences)

Waypoints

• Enhanced Waypoint file management
• Unlimited Waypoints (limited only by RAM and hard disk size)
• Anchor Zone and Arrival Zone Alarms
• Load/Unload and Manage SOB Waypoint files. (“.WPT”)
• Automatically import “.TXT” or “.CSV” files
• Export Wpts files to ".CSV" files 
• Capture Wpts sent from the GPS to a .WPT file
• Upload/Download Waypoints to the C-MAP User Card via the USB Card Reader
• Nominate individual or groups of Waypoints to be automatically loaded when SOB starts

PastTrack and Logfiles

• Selectively display or hide the Ship’s past track
  clear track, reload any past track, auto-reload last track
• Convert PastTracks to Routes
• Automatic Logfile of PastTrack for importing into Excel etc
• Full NMEA logging, for voyage logfiles or voyage replay
• Message logging. The "Messages" ViewPanel will automatically log to a text file periodically

Miscellaneous

• More NMEA support for Wind instruments
• Zoom to a Window (create a sizeable "zoom-window" with a middle-mouse button drag)
• Resizable Ship's Data window
• Dozens of Keyboard Shortcuts added
• Additional control of the C-MAP cartography
• Various Palette choices including a Night Palette
• Keep Ship's Target auto-centred on display (don't allow Ship's Target to "sail" off the display)
• Easily manually re-position the Ship's Target
• Additional NMEA outputs for AutoPilot* control (BOD/XTE, BWC, BWR, APA, APB)

Easy Conversion Form

• Angles: find latitudes or longitudes for decimal-degrees ( DD.DDD° ); degrees-decimal-minutes ( DD° MM.mm' ); or degrees-minutes-seconds ( DD° MM' SS" )
• Lengths: convert metres, kilometres, feet, fathoms, miles and nautical miles

*Instruments must be NMEA enabled