When did the new chip come out ? When I talked with them they indicated the next go around wouldn't be until over the winter or next spring. Maybe the one you mention was allready in the works when we spoke to them and Squam, etc. will be the next one????

I'll call/E mail them again and see if I can get a better answer, or at least see if any in the Lakes area are in the plan.

John S.

John -- I've got the 2006 Hotmaps Premium East which came out in January. I had just bought it last year and had to upgrade it already when I saw how many lakes they put on there -- particularly a new high-res map of Moosehead... Best thing to do is get a list of lakes that got missed (Squam, Ossipee etc.) and get others in the area to lobby them together. If you give Navionics contacts for whatever maps are available, paper or whatever, that helps to grease the skids.

They even put the "Toronto Reservoir" -- the dinky hydro lake I fished last weekend -- on the chip. They should get Squam and others in the lakes region.

I told them I could send a map and gave them the name of the survey people, etc. Museum of Science in Boston was involved believe it or not. I mentioned oher Lakes in the area and I'm pretty sure others sent request for other area Lakes about the same time I did.

I'll call them now and see what they say,

John S.

Just received my new chip today... it is stamped March '06 and doesn't have Squam on it. Or many others in the area. I emailed with a fella at Navionics the other day and gave him a list of a bunch of lakes in the area that weren't on their list. He said they sincerely would put the list in the "system" for the next batch of mappings. We'll see.
Looking forward to using the new HD map of winni.

i dont have one, but when looking them up this winter i remember seeing that they do work if the hull of the boat is aluminum, but not as well on a fiberglass hull. something about the grounding on aluminum boats.