Hi Chris, I went to the site and see a number of downloads, which one should I start with? I live in Oregon, so maybe start there? Thanks, Larry Sent from Windows Mail From: Chris BrownSent: ?Tuesday?, ?October? ?29?, ?2013 ?9?:?45? ?AMTo:
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This bad news (or there is often something good in everything). I came out of a meeting this weekend and a member of the CG attended. He explained this to us and the article is correct. There is good news:The CG Officer said that charts would be constantly updated, so when you have a chart printed the company printing them should have downloaded very recent charts (no more getting the weekly updates to fix a chart you just bought).Second, you can print the charts yourselves. If you have a large printer (such as a 13X19 photo printer) the charts you can print are a decent size. Plus with the money you save by buying printed charts, you too can easily afford a nice, new photo printer). I do this all the time, even for my classes on traditional plotting and they work well. You could even go and have Kinkos and have them bound into your very own chart book. If you have the right nav software, you could even lay out your entire cruise and have custom route books printed).If you don't have nav software there are some pretty good free programs available. One that I am just starting to look at is 'OpenCpn'. I don't have a lot of experience with it, but several members of my organization who seem to be offshore more than on land have reviewed it and like it.
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