On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 19:01:41 -0700, Peter Bennett wrote:

On 20 Jun 2005 14:05:37 -0700, wrote:

I believe Canada Hydrographic Service has "licensed"
a private corporation to distribute chart information in a variety of
formats. The govt. is supposed to receive royalties from the sales of
paper or electronic chart data. So it is technically true that CANGOV
doesn't produce paper charts anymore.

Nautical Data International (NDI) has a contract to distribute
_digital_ chart data for the Canadian Hydrographic Service. CHS still
prints and distributes paper charts and related publications, so far
as I know.
SNIP

Thanks for all the Great Info, guys!

I bit the bullet and bought the ($350!) CD with all charts from Victoria
to Cape Caution. I then "printed" them (Postscript to file), moved the
files to Linux, and converted to PDF. I now have PDF files of all the
relavent charts, so I can look at them with any computer.

Still need Offshore Navigator in Windows to see my little GPS-driven boat
on them, though. (I'm trying to get gpsdrive to work properly in Linux,
but not having much luck...)

So, I've been dragged, kicking and scratching, into the Digital World!
(But still have all my paper charts, Just In Case...)

Lloyd Sumpter
"Far Cove" Catalina 36