Free download NOAA BookletChart

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breausaw

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Found this the other day.
Not a full size chart but takes up less space, and the cover page gives quick page reference.

8x10 booklet chart http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/staf ... Chart.html


The NOAA BookletChart™ is an experimental product that you can print at home for free. They are made to help recreational boaters locate themselves on the water.
The Booklet Chart is reduced in scale and divided into pages for convenience, but otherwise contains all the information of the full-scale nautical chart. Bar scales are also reduced in scale, but are accurate when used to measure distances in a BookletChart. Excerpts from the United States Coast Pilot are included. Most chart notes are consolidated on a single page for easy reference. Emergency information for the charted area is printed on the back cover.
 
Thanks for the tip. Interesting concept--perhaps a bit difficult to use as you go along, but better than the "free" charts with advertising. Excellent to use for planning. I can see using this resource for visiting boaters, and printing out the exact pages which are necessary to show favorite coves and anchorages.

Only complaint--the channel to my house is lost at the edge of the page.

On the ICW numbering works well. It would be nice if lat and long were on each line to give some orientation as to position--especially in the large scale charts.

Now if Canada would. just do this!
 
Free is a good price, but if you were to print up a healthy section of routing, you're going to spend a FORTUNE on printer ink! :shock: I downloaded just the lower Laguna Madre and it is a 20 page file.

We use the NOAA charts on the computer for planning, but I don't print them out. I like Dr. Bob's idea of being able to print just a cove or anchorage for visitors, though.

Best wishes,
Jim B.
 
Hello,
There is an excellent book that gives excellent references to what is available free and other wise in the way of electronic and paper charts. The book is called Get on Board with E-Charting.It's called a complete reference guide to electronic charting and PC based marine navigation. It comes with some trail software and also covers laptops for boat use and what software is available. The book new is a little salty (pricey) but if you already bought a boat motor and trailer I would think this is another drop in your large bucket titled boat expenses. Ignore any spelling errors, no I know I don't have a C-Dory boat yet.
D.D.
 
There are also several sources for all of the US charts on DVD--the link posted above by Captain's cat--has one of them. I keep these downloaded on my computer's hard drive for reference--and planning. I have occasionally printed out the charts for friends--where we could not get the charts for an area--but it took a lot of pages to get the detail wanted of the ICW.
 
I don't need no stinking chart.......I am not navigationally challenged. And, I never ask for directions. However, we only have like 3 highways in Alaska and it is kinda hard to get lost. Moreover, where I boat I have gone about 500 times. But, with that said, I still buy the paper copies for reference just in case the GPS dies and I fall into a coma. However, all kidding aside, it is nice to have this resource available online and I have saved all maps to the laptop I bring on the boat. Thanks for posting the link:)
 
Thanks Breausaw!

This is a big asset for planning my next adventure in Southeast Alaska
while desert bound here in Nevada..


JT
F/V 'Palomino" 8)
 
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T.R.Bauer, Wasilla,,,,Wasilla,,, why does that ring a bell?
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You're kidding right? Yes, the Republican Party Vice President Canidate lives just down the street from me........We all have known her for years. Wasilla is a small town.
 
Be aware these charts are polyconic projections, instead of the usual mercator traditionally used for charts. This means you can't calculate course headings using simple dividers and parallel rules. I find this very annoying.
 
When I want a localized chart to give someone I use AnalgX-Capture (Free) :thup to do a screen dump of Captn's from my computer and print it. :wink Saves ink by only printing what I want. :smiled Jack
 
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