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britinusa
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Initially Posted - 10/07/2012 :  14:51:43  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
As part of our sailing best practices, we want to get a some charts to practice navigation.

Anyone know of a good source of quality charts that we can glean from the web for printing (charts that follow Chart 1)

Paul
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Stu Jackson C34
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Response Posted - 10/07/2012 :  15:38:31  Show Profile
Google "Chart Booklets" or search on the Coast Guard website (www.uscg.mil) You can download an print charts from all over in 8-1/2 x 11 format.
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 10/07/2012 :  16:26:57  Show Profile
Paul
Here's the link I use for printable charts:

http://ocsdata.ncd.noaa.gov/BookletChart/AtlanticCoastBookletCharts.htm

For viewing I prefer www.GeoGarage.com
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Response Posted - 10/07/2012 :  16:31:28  Show Profile
You can also download all the volumes of the Coast Guard's Coast Pilots. I downloaded them and read about my local area.
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 10/07/2012 :  17:47:24  Show Profile
Vector charts: http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/enc/index.htm
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Response Posted - 10/07/2012 :  22:17:35  Show Profile
from noaa.... http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/OnLineViewer.html
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DaveR
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Response Posted - 10/08/2012 :  08:25:10  Show Profile  Visit DaveR's Homepage
Great links guys, thanks.
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 10/08/2012 :  18:15:48  Show Profile
Paul - is there any way to add these links to the Forum link pages? Would be nice to have them at our fingertips in the future.
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Response Posted - 10/08/2012 :  18:20:00  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
I could see them on the [url="http://www.catalina-capri-25s.org/links.asp"]links[/url] page.

Paul
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awetmore
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Response Posted - 10/09/2012 :  04:31:16  Show Profile
It isn't that useful for printing, but my favorite chart viewing page is http://deepzoom.com. It requires Silverlight (might work with Mono on Linx) and gives you really great visualizations of tides and currents on top of NOAA charts.

If you happen to have a Windows Phone 7 based phone there is an app version of it called "Nautical Charts". It is a bit expensive at $10, but I've found it worth it.

On my iPad I use Navoionics and wish that they had the current visualizations of deepzoom.
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TakeFive
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Response Posted - 10/09/2012 :  04:57:58  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by britinusa</i>
<br />As part of our sailing best practices, we want to get a some charts to practice navigation.

Anyone know of a good source of quality charts that we can glean from the web for printing (charts that follow Chart 1)

Paul
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If it's old fashioned navigation that you want to practice, you might be best to get a large size chart. You might check with a local ASA school. For ASA 105 coastal navigation, they use out-of-date charts (~40 years old). They might be able to sell you one for a reasonable price. Or maybe you can call one of the NOAA authorized printers and see if they have any out-of-date stock lying around that they'd be willing to get rid of for a couple dollars.

The NOAA BookletCharts are a fantastic free product for general browsing. If you have a duplex color laser printer available, they are very useful. But due their reduction, they're not really navigation quality.

I also use SeaClear II to print portions of the NOAA vector charts. Legal paper works nicely for my local river. One nice little feature of Seaclear is that it generates a mile scale in the margin, so you can print at whatever zoom you want and still be able to measure distances. These might be good enough for you to practice navigation skills, but they're a little small. However, IMO they're better than the BookletCharts for navigation over a small area.
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Response Posted - 10/25/2012 :  12:26:18  Show Profile  Visit piseas's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by britinusa</i>
<br />I could see them on the [url="http://www.catalina-capri-25s.org/links.asp"]links[/url] page.

Paul

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Paul if you are referring to Weather & Navigation section, the Noaa's MapFinder link is broken.
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