"Edgar" wrote in message
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"Shaun Van Poecke" wrote in message
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Old charts can still be used so long as they are accurate. Keeping them
up
to date with all the notices to mariners can be a full time occupation in
itself if you have a lot of charts, but its rewarding work. You can
download the notices to mariners digitally now, or if you have time, you
can
go to your local maritime office and sit there in luxury with a cup of
coffee and update your charts there.

Just don't get behind with the work. It is frustrating to start to catch
up
with a heap of Notices in front of you and spend time plotting,say, the
position of a wreck obstructing a channel, and then find three or four
Notices later that it has been removed and you have to erase all your
previous work. Don't ask how I know that....

Its a learning process just the same.... the person with the right frame of
mind can actually find it fascinating to watch 10 or 15 or even 50 years of
history unfold right before their very eyes, and to make judgements on how
things were handled. Rather than say, pulling your own hair out with your
hands to the point you were left a drivelling bleeding mass of quivering
flesh.

Shaun