Ellen MacArthur wrote:
Get with the program Injun Ear! Any competent sailor who stores charts stores them flat.

Not necessarily. Unless you think that U.S. Navy navigators are
incompetent.


Any real voyaging or cruising sailboat has a chart locker where you can store about a foot deep
of charts flat and unfolded. Rolling them up is stupid. It makes them about impossible to use.

Not if you re-roll them every 2 or 3 months, as I said in my original
post. If you leave them rolled up for a few years, then yeah, they're
difficult (but not impossible).



Actually, paper charts are stupid anymore.

Really?

You can get free electronic charts from the WEB and
they are the most up to datest you can get at the time.

Are you sure? Have you checked charts available for download against
the most recent N2Ms?

If you really demand paper charts then print
them on your printer from the e-chart.


And I guess a "real voyaging or cruising sailboat" will have a table
sized color printer on board... and a large supply of waterproof ink,
too

-signed- Injun Ear (formerly known as Eagle Eye)