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existentialsailor
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Initially Posted - 11/12/2005 :  07:14:27  Show Profile
Probably not news to most, but I just found out about this yesterday:

http://www.freeboatingcharts.com/

Might be useful to some.
Rick
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atgep
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Response Posted - 11/12/2005 :  07:37:43  Show Profile
Here is the software you can use to view the charts. It is FREE as well. WOOOHOOOO.

http://www.sping.com/seaclear/

I have been messing around with it for the past couple of days and like it.


Tom.
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ClamBeach
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Response Posted - 11/12/2005 :  10:18:33  Show Profile
And the NOAA Coastal Pilot Guides are online too... forget if this was posted here before.

http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/nsd/coastpilot.htm
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Tom Potter
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Response Posted - 11/13/2005 :  09:40:00  Show Profile
Free charts... I'm there! I down loaded the software and a load of charts already, got from Norfolk to Florida including ICW. Found one that will cover our trip to Bimini next year also. Free is good!
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ClamBeach
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Response Posted - 11/13/2005 :  12:15:48  Show Profile
"Free is good!"

Well, we pay for them with our tax dollars, but IMHO free is the way it should be for publicly-developed (funded) resources.
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lcharlot
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Response Posted - 11/13/2005 :  21:11:23  Show Profile
S-57 format electronic charts are amazing. Highly accurate, interface direct with GPS, and loads of detail, and NOAA provides them absolutely free to download. Too bad the Canadian government contracted out their electronic nav chart compilation to a private company. They want over $1000 for the ENC's for the Gulf Islands (the ENC version of Canadian chart book #3313). That's way too much for recreational use, especially for transients like me who are only there for a couple of weeks every other year.
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