On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:29:41 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:19:27 -0800, Eddie
wrote:

Advice well taken Wayne. And thanks for the information a weights.
I'll be ordering the $15 one and start there.

There are several areas where an older Chapman's will be obsolete.
That's OK if you know what's missing. One important area is
electronic navigation which has changed radically in the last 15 years
or so. Another is anchors believe it or not. Danforths have been
around a long time and are well understood but both Spade and Rocna
are new in the last 10 years and have totally changed things.

I'm sure he won't be missing much between the 64th and 65th editions.

It also doesn't need to be his sole source of information. There's
lots of information on these here tubes, the internets.