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)

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

I haven't a clue what a N2M is but I do know the paper charts you can buy, the latest versions,
are printed from the same electronic charts that are available free on the Internet. Here's the link:
http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/staff/charts.htm

"NOAA's Raster Navigational Chart (NOAA RNCT) is a georeferenced, digital image of a paper chart which can be used in a
raster chart system. The NOAA RNCT files are available for free download via the internet at:
http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/Raster/download.htm"

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

That would be nice if you wanted full-sized charts on demand But, you can use a standard printer and
regular paper. You can always tape sheets together to make a big chart if that's what you really want. And
who needs waterproof ink. Your chart table and chart storage should both be dry.


Cheers,
Ellen