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Armond Perretta
 
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Default Canadian Chart Packs?

Sheldon Haynie wrote:
Is there any vendor of chart packs or books for Canadian charts ?
I am thinking of the equivalent of the big books that cover Maine to
Portland or Portland to Boston..


For paper charts, you must use individual charts available from the Hydro
Office. For electronic charts, you can purchase a CD (Nova Scotia, for
example) put out by the Hydro Office, but available from several other
vendors.

You will also want to latch onto one (or more) of the cruising guides. In
some cases, especially on the Eastern Shore of NS, the charts simply aren't
good enough for sailing the "inside" routes, and a local cruising guide is
pretty much a necessity. I cannot recommend the CCA guide all that much,
although it was for a very long time the standard. Loveridge is quite good.
There are 3 or 4 others I have used. Contact me if you would like details.

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Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
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