I am looking for some used charts fo next summer's sailing season: BBA
chart kits for region 7 (Florida east coast and keys); region 6 ( Norfolk to
Jacksonville, Fla.); region 4 ( Chesepeake and Delaware Bays); and region 3
(New york, Nantucket, Cape May, NJ).

If anyone wants to part with theirs ... or knows where I can purchase them
.... I'd appreciate a reply. Are there retail marine stores which deal in
used charts?

Finley Martin
Prince Edward Island, Canada

On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:09:37 GMT, "finley martin"
wrote:

I am looking for some used charts fo next summer's sailing season: BBA
chart kits for region 7 (Florida east coast and keys); region 6 ( Norfolk to
Jacksonville, Fla.); region 4 ( Chesepeake and Delaware Bays); and region 3
(New york, Nantucket, Cape May, NJ).

If anyone wants to part with theirs ... or knows where I can purchase them
... I'd appreciate a reply. Are there retail marine stores which deal in
used charts?

You can get all of those charts in electronic form for free:

http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/Raster/download.htm

I have a fair assortment of charts and chartbooks of varying age and
condition for all those areas and since my wife and I are planning to head
up towards the Bras d'Or Lakes next season instead of another jaunt south,
perhaps we might do some swapping? I just this week got The Cruising Guide
to the Nova Scotia Coast and The Yachting Guide to the Alantic Coast of Nova
Scotia but am particularly interested in charts and additional local
information for the Nova Scotia, PEI and Bras d'Or region. If interested
please contact me off list at jsodell at gmaildotcom.

Regards,
Scott Odell
S/V Itchen; BCC #73

"finley martin" wrote in message
...
I am looking for some used charts fo next summer's sailing season: BBA
chart kits for region 7 (Florida east coast and keys); region 6 ( Norfolk
to
Jacksonville, Fla.); region 4 ( Chesepeake and Delaware Bays); and region
3
(New york, Nantucket, Cape May, NJ).

If anyone wants to part with theirs ... or knows where I can purchase them
... I'd appreciate a reply. Are there retail marine stores which deal in
used charts?

Finley Martin
Prince Edward Island, Canada

"finley martin" wrote:

I am looking for some used charts fo next summer's sailing season: BBA
chart kits for region 7 (Florida east coast and keys); region 6 ( Norfolk to
Jacksonville, Fla.); region 4 ( Chesepeake and Delaware Bays); and region 3
(New york, Nantucket, Cape May, NJ).

If anyone wants to part with theirs ... or knows where I can purchase them
... I'd appreciate a reply. Are there retail marine stores which deal in
used charts?

Instead of soliciting used and perhaps out-of-date charts, why don't
you just download the free up-to-date ones now made available by NOAA?

wrote:
"finley martin" wrote:

I am looking for some used charts fo next summer's sailing season: BBA
chart kits for region 7 (Florida east coast and keys); region 6 ( Norfolk to
Jacksonville, Fla.); region 4 ( Chesepeake and Delaware Bays); and region 3
(New york, Nantucket, Cape May, NJ).

If anyone wants to part with theirs ... or knows where I can purchase them
... I'd appreciate a reply. Are there retail marine stores which deal in
used charts?

Instead of soliciting used and perhaps out-of-date charts, why don't
you just download the free up-to-date ones now made available by NOAA?

Maybe he, like me prefers paper charts.

krj wrote:
wrote:
"finley martin" wrote:

Maybe he, like me prefers paper charts.

You can also "Print" out the charts you download from the above site.
They are the most up to date charts around.

wrote in :

Instead of soliciting used and perhaps out-of-date charts, why don't
you just download the free up-to-date ones now made available by NOAA?



Hmm.....maybe because he isn't allowed to download them to his proprietary,
locked up GPS plotter in the boat without paying some cartography company
$120/chart they got for free at taxpayer expense?

I think that's a valid reason....(c;



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On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:14:39 -0500, Larry wrote:

Hmm.....maybe because he isn't allowed to download them to his proprietary,
locked up GPS plotter in the boat without paying some cartography company
$120/chart they got for free at taxpayer expense?

I think that's a valid reason....(c;

Not really.

You download them to an inexpensive laptop or two, and display and/or
print them with free or inexpensive software.

As we used to say in New York, free is a very good price.

krj wrote:
....
You can also "Print" out the charts you download from the above site.
They are the most up to date charts around.

Well, I've made "flip" books of electronic charts and they are great as
a cockpit piloting aid. However, for the pencil navigator they have
some problems:

1) Having them printed full size will likely cost more than buying full
sized used charts.
2) Printing them less than full size makes them harder to read, harder
to work on and results in less accurate chart work.
3) Printers can introduce errors including distortions, skipped areas,
smudged areas and ghosting. Navigators using LORAN need to take
particular care.
4) Paper and ink quality are likely to be inferior and less water
resistant than government printed charts.
5) Printing at home takes time and if high quality paper, ink and
coatings are used can be expensive, too.

So, buying used charts makes a good deal of sense to me when new charts
are not in the budget or as a back-up to an electronic chart plotting
system.

-- Tom.

On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:09:37 GMT, "finley martin"
wrote:

I am looking for some used charts fo next summer's sailing season: BBA
chart kits for region 7 (Florida east coast and keys); region 6 ( Norfolk to
Jacksonville, Fla.); region 4 ( Chesepeake and Delaware Bays); and region 3
(New york, Nantucket, Cape May, NJ).

If anyone wants to part with theirs ... or knows where I can purchase them
... I'd appreciate a reply. Are there retail marine stores which deal in
used charts?

Finley Martin
Prince Edward Island, Canada


What an interesting thread, thank you for the question.
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