I have coastal explorer(CE) running on a notebook computer along with a couple of fixed Chartplotters that use the Classic Navionics chips. I note on the Rosepoint website, they are currently beta testing a newer version of CE that will have some nice features and will also be supporting Navionics charts. I've not got enough experience with CE to offer beneficial feedback, so I am not participating in the beta testing. I plan to cruise outside the US soon and am trying to figure out the most cost effective way to get electronic chart coverage. Since my older fixed Chartplotters use the Classic Navionics chips, I would need a $TON of these chips to get good coverage. However, I note that Navionics sells a single Gold Chart (#17XG) for example that covers the entire Caribbean and most of Baja. Does any user happen to know if I can buy one of the $75 Navionics Multicard Readers that has a USB cord and feed any of the newer, bigger Navionics charts into my laptop to be used by CE? It seems that most of the press on the multicard Reader has been linked to RayMarine products (of which I have none). I'm hoping that the formatting is not limited to RayMarine equipment. This would certainly give me some flexibility since I believe the Reader can also read the older Classic card format (of which I have a whole drawer full of). My understanding is that one of the advantages of CE is that most electronic chart formats that come on a CD or DVD can be read and used. Thanks, Tom Emily Grace