Cost of world charts- how do you do it?!

[simonpickard]

Hello all,

So I'm looking into the cost of world charts, and getting very scared.

Ideally I'd love to have a plotter + a set for iPad / Mac as backups.

I've started looking into pricing the above up and it runs into the 1000's, in fact closer to 10,000's. How do you guys do this? Do you really have to just lump it and budget for the high cost of charts? Is there a secondhand market somewhere I'm missing?

I think I'm just used to google maps, free, well detailed, and FREE.

Regards,
Simon