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breausaw



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 7:16 pm    Post subject: Free download NOAA BookletChart Reply with quote

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/staff/BookletChart.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.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 7:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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!

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 7:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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! Shocked 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.
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breausaw



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Put the file on a thumb drive or just about any storage device and take it to Kinko’s, pennies per color copy.

Or do it online: http://fedex.kinkos.com/fpfk/index.php

Office Depot is good also.

My playground http://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/16700.shtml
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think I have posted this before but here it is again. workd great for trip planning or just looking around

http://demo.geogarage.com/noaa/

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The NOAA BookletChart is a great idea, but it appears to be definitely "experimental" at this stage. My first pick was the Wrangel Narrows package, the index page for which was a chart of the Chesapeake Bay area!

See:
http://ocsdata.ncd.noaa.gov/BookletChart/17375_BookletChart_HomeEd.pdf

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:01 am    Post subject: Free download NOAA BookletChart Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

starcrafttom wrote:
I think I have posted this before but here it is again. workd great for trip planning or just looking around

http://demo.geogarage.com/noaa/


Hey Tom thanks for that link I really like the ability to zoom in and out it really puts things in prespective for trip planning.

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Captains Cat



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's a LINK to the "Get onboard with E-charting" Book. Looks like a pretty good reference. And, no, for a boater, it's not too expensive!! Laughing

Charlie

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 1:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

starcrafttom wrote:
I think I have posted this before but here it is again. workd great for trip planning or just looking around

http://demo.geogarage.com/noaa/


Thanks for posting it again, Thomas. I missed it the first time. What a nice tool to have!

-Greg
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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T.R. Bauer



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:03 pm    Post subject: Chart? What Chart? Reply with quote

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:)
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:40 pm    Post subject: Charts Reply with quote

Thanks Breausaw!

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


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

T.R.Bauer, Wasilla,,,,Wasilla,,, why does that ring a bell?
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 10:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anna Leigh wrote:
T.R.Bauer, Wasilla,,,,Wasilla,,, why does that ring a bell?


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.
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