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Updating Charts

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AlanH

compulsive typist
I just went to the Local Notice to Mariners web site:

http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/lnm/

and clicked on the Hawaii Division, thinking to get chart corrections. Lo and behold, there are LNM's for Hawaii every week since ***** and each one is a 12+ page pdf file. If I download all the LNM's and pore through them, that will take me HOURS of time. That, and I need to do the same thing to my required California charts, as well.

Does anybody know a more time-efficient way of doing this?

ANSWER

After writing the above post I went to the NOAA website, searched for chart updates, and lo and behold...

http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/updates/index.htm

You sign an agreement to not redistribute the updates, etc. etc....then you wind up at a page where you enter in the chart number. I put in "530" for example. That gives you a list of all the updates since the past couple of editions of the chart.
MUCH easier.
 
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Easier still (though not as inexpensive):

have them printed for you (on-demand) using Ocean Grafix to print the NOAA charts. I'm doing this for my summer trip to Southern California, and it's a lot easier than applying corrections to my charts, some of which actually pre-date NOAA charts... (my Santa Barbara Island chart is from the Coast and Geodetic Survey that still has its little sticker (from 1970) indicating it was $1.25 to purchase).

While there hasn't been an ice age lately and therefore the land masses are likely to still be roughly where they were, I do suspect there have been small advances in offshore oil rig capability and perhaps a buoy change or two.

Shameless plug for Marilee at Waypoint (a speaker at one of our TransPac seminars and part-sponsor of the TransPac poster), as she has one of the huge plotters and can run out charts while you stand there:

http://www.waypoints.com/tradcharts/pod.html

- rob
 
After looking down the list of corrections I'd have to do to charts 530 and 19004....a "lot" of corrections.. :eek: like, a LOT of corrections....

I just ordered two charts from WayPoint. Thanks for the link, Rob.
 
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