Quick Quiz - be honest, no one is going to tell, no one is going to turn you in. 1) Do you have a current set of NOAA paper navigation charts for the area you sail in aboard your boat? 2) How often do you check out the Local Notice to Mariners to make yourself aware of any changes that have become available to those paper charts? (they are available here for the 13th Coast Guard district - you can find your district here as well: http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/lnm/d13/ 3) Do you have electronic charts aboard - for your chartplotter, etc? Just curious. Tim Brogan April IV C350 #68 Seattle
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My answers
OK, here are my answers: 1) Yes I have the most recent publications of paper charts covering the areas I cruise 2) I check the notice to mariners about once a month - usually just for fun, but also because I'm curious about stuff like that. 3) Yes, I have electronic charts covering the same areas noted above. In general, I have the electronic chartplotter aide readily available at all times, the paper copy opened to an appropriate chart down below when I'm headed into unfamiliar territory - just in case. Tim Brogan April IV C350 #68 Seattle
OK, here are my answers: 1) Yes I have the most recent publications of paper charts covering the areas I cruise 2) I check the notice to mariners about once a month - usually just for fun, but also because I'm curious about stuff like that. 3) Yes, I have electronic charts covering the same areas noted above. In general, I have the electronic chartplotter aide readily available at all times, the paper copy opened to an appropriate chart down below when I'm headed into unfamiliar territory - just in case. Tim Brogan April IV C350 #68 Seattle
My cruising guide charts
all say "Not for navigation purposes" so I don't use them. Mostly for paper charts I use place mats I have picked up from various seafood dinners. Lots of good information there. Scott
all say "Not for navigation purposes" so I don't use them. Mostly for paper charts I use place mats I have picked up from various seafood dinners. Lots of good information there. Scott
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Yes, and certainly for any new area we head into. Check the notices anytime I'm sailing outside areas I frequest regularly, or before any night time sailing. I have electronic charts for the chartplotter. Dan Jonas (S/V Feije II)
Yes, and certainly for any new area we head into. Check the notices anytime I'm sailing outside areas I frequest regularly, or before any night time sailing. I have electronic charts for the chartplotter. Dan Jonas (S/V Feije II)
Placemats
True story! More than 20 years ago, I was chartering a Catalina 25 in the SanJuan Islands. We were (OK, I was) being stubborn and trying to make headway under sail in about 2 knots of wind in San Juan channel and a small powerboat came alongside. The skipper was holding his placemat chart of the area and pointed to an island behind him and asked me "Is that Blakely Island?" I very helpfully pointed him at the proper island and off he went, apparently no longer needing the placemat. Tim Brogan April IV C350 #68 Seattle
True story! More than 20 years ago, I was chartering a Catalina 25 in the SanJuan Islands. We were (OK, I was) being stubborn and trying to make headway under sail in about 2 knots of wind in San Juan channel and a small powerboat came alongside. The skipper was holding his placemat chart of the area and pointed to an island behind him and asked me "Is that Blakely Island?" I very helpfully pointed him at the proper island and off he went, apparently no longer needing the placemat. Tim Brogan April IV C350 #68 Seattle
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a) Yes b) No c) No Not a lot of room/power for the electronics on an H23. Peter H23 "Raven"
a) Yes b) No c) No Not a lot of room/power for the electronics on an H23. Peter H23 "Raven"
Yes, sometimes, yes
I update when I am going to be sailing in an area that I don't frequent as much. In my regular sailing area, the notices are never as timely as my own notations.
I update when I am going to be sailing in an area that I don't frequent as much. In my regular sailing area, the notices are never as timely as my own notations.
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1. I always have paper charts. 2. I never check the "Notice to Mariners" on the web, but I do keep the VHF on channel 16 & local notices are given every few hours for important stuff. 3. I have C-Map NT+ on my Raymarine GPS/chartplotter.
1. I always have paper charts. 2. I never check the "Notice to Mariners" on the web, but I do keep the VHF on channel 16 & local notices are given every few hours for important stuff. 3. I have C-Map NT+ on my Raymarine GPS/chartplotter.
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Hey Guys, Great thread!!! I'm surprised at how many people don't keep paper charts. I never would have guessed. Here are a few questions to the guys without paper charts: 1. Do you ever sail at night? 2. Do you ever sail in coastal, tidal (salt water) areas or just lakes & rivers? 3. Do you ever sail in unfamiliar waters? It would be interesting to know!! Allen Schweitzer s/v Falstaff C-30 Hull# 632
Hey Guys, Great thread!!! I'm surprised at how many people don't keep paper charts. I never would have guessed. Here are a few questions to the guys without paper charts: 1. Do you ever sail at night? 2. Do you ever sail in coastal, tidal (salt water) areas or just lakes & rivers? 3. Do you ever sail in unfamiliar waters? It would be interesting to know!! Allen Schweitzer s/v Falstaff C-30 Hull# 632
I should have explained my answers no no and no. We have lived on the Tenn Tom Waterway before it was a waterway, when the river was wild and we have sailed and boated on the river for some 37 years .... 100 nm north and south. where we do our sailing and boating I probable know the river and waterway better than the COE does. .... but if I was to sail in unknown waters my answers would have been Yes, Yes and Yes..............just my two cents worth
Yes; seldom; no
I really like paper charts, and don't believe that there is a good LCD screen solution for sunny days on the lake. Even with good charts, though, I am glad to have the Great Lakes Cruising Guide to plan safe port entries. David Lady Lillie
I really like paper charts, and don't believe that there is a good LCD screen solution for sunny days on the lake. Even with good charts, though, I am glad to have the Great Lakes Cruising Guide to plan safe port entries. David Lady Lillie
Sorry Allen, I should have clarified.
We had a thread going last winter about paper charts. Many don't use or need them for local waters. I'm one of those. I haven't looked at a local chart, on paper, since the 70s. I define 'local' as where I day-sail. But when I get away, that's different. I'm a computer freak, like most of us here, so I know to have paper charts. I have paper to take me to Trinidad and nearly the same for electronic charts.
We had a thread going last winter about paper charts. Many don't use or need them for local waters. I'm one of those. I haven't looked at a local chart, on paper, since the 70s. I define 'local' as where I day-sail. But when I get away, that's different. I'm a computer freak, like most of us here, so I know to have paper charts. I have paper to take me to Trinidad and nearly the same for electronic charts.
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