On Oct 23, 5:18*pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On 23 Oct 2006 15:57:50 -0700, "Chuck Gould"

wrote:
Can it be? The entire inventory of NOAA charts now available for about
what we used to pay for one or two paper charts? *If so, that would be
great.Why would you pay $30 or $40 when you can download the exact same
charts for free?

*That* (free) is about as affordable as you can get. * :-)

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


I think the value is in the indexing and organizing, along with the
sampling of various electro-nav programs contained on the disc. I don't
know about you, but I'm not inclined to spend too many hours at a task
in order to save 30 bucks.