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Hi Paddy, 
thanks for the help!
I think its all about using an old version of both Chartplotter and Opencpn. As a noob I thought i'd try to use the 'production version' for its 'stability' but its obviously too old now! (> 1 year) and not worth digging too closely to find the cause of problems. When you do find any documentation etc it relates to more recent software; not to the production version. (as an ex IT professional I find this 'change control' problem very annoying )  - However, no one recommends a 'stable' version to use.  

How stable is your version? And do/would you use it on your boat?

regards
Dave

Hi Dave,  I'm happy with the latest version onboard, I live aboard so use it quite often moving from anchorages - not critical if it falls over and so far it's been fine day to day. Some bugs here and there and I can still crash it now and again fiddling but it seems stable when I'm not messing about. Big plus is there are update menus for openplotter, raspbian and opencpn/plugins so no more having to download new versions. All the latest documentation is centred around V0.11.* i think  so now might be a good time to bite the bullet and get it over with. Good luck

Great, I think I will. But how to? The only download I can find on the Git website is v0.10 alpha. Is it a case of using this and then using the update menus to get to the v0.11.*   ??

Yeah, v10 is fine. I started afresh a week or 2 ago with the same download then ran all the updates from a menu in the openplotter window, easier than it used to be!

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Thanks, I'm on it now!