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.

Wayne.B wrote in
:

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.




My point being someone needs write CHARTING software that interfaces these
free charts to PLOTTING, not just printing out.....

I've printed them and HAVE been successful to use them with the Yeoman
paper chart plotter board, however. Printing them big enough is a pain in
the ass, though. Cap'n Geoffrey has Maptech books for where we cruise
already preprogrammed for the Yeoman, so we use those. On the free charts,
you have to put 3 cardinal lat/long points into the Yeoman puck along a
right angle, then use those points to point the puck at and click to tell
the Yeoman computer This is A, This is B, This is C....then it's calibrated
to what you printed. You can store A,B and C and reuse them any time.

On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 23:46:28 -0500, Larry wrote:

I've printed them and HAVE been successful to use them with the Yeoman
paper chart plotter board, however.

What is the attraction of the Yeoman if you have a computer on board
and electronic charts?

I plot using the software, works fine.

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.
--

Woodsy,
Off the Grid, Off the Road, Off my Rocker...

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http://www.tidesend.com/