Paper Chart detail vs. Electronic Chart detail

[Franklin]

Hermit....what you are talking about is every simple. Run a computer monitor wire from the helm to the nav-station. Then buy a touch screen monitor, build a case to keep it dry and bolt to the pedistal. Then just plug in your laptop to that wire and you're set. I've been wanting to do that for a long time but haven't gotten around to it. The problem though is that the NOAA RNC charts are only for the US which are not going to help those who want to see the other part of the world.

 

[Ross]

Franklin, I have a surplus of round tuits and will gladly send one if that will help. Ross

 

[wjssr]

All sailors should remember one thing: Every accurate depth sounding was made from some human in a vessel actually measuring the depth with a lead line or a fathometer. If nobody cruised over a spot, then there is no sounding for that spot, either on a paper chart or an electronic one. Since the bottom changes over time, this fact assumes more importance with time and proximity to the littoral. You can blow up the chart all you want, but if a sounding was never made .............. Also those fatthometer lines on charts are just estimates of the depths between actual soundings.