NOAA's Experimental BookletChart™

s/v 'Faith' · 12-08-2008, 19:12

Good news for those of us who dislike reliance on electronic charts!
NOAA's Experimental BookletChart™

Quote:

The experimental BookletChart is made to help recreational boaters locate themselves on the water. It has been reduced in scale and divided into pages for convenience, but otherwise contains all the information of the full scale nautical chart. Bar scales have also been reduced in scale, and are accurate when used to measure distances in a BookletChart. Excerpts from the United States Coast Pilot are included, and chart notes are consolidated on a single page for easy reference. Emergency information for the charted area is printed on the back cover.

Download and Print BookletCharts™ for Free!!!

Office of Coast Survey

Therapy · 12-08-2008, 19:17

Cool!
Thanks.

edit:

The lines on the "approxomate page index" are a mile off for the one I checked (11415, pg 14)............but who cares!!!!

**GordMay** · 13-08-2008, 02:37

Very cool!
Print on 11 x 17" Ledger, if you can.

dacust · 13-08-2008, 16:18

They are printed across pages in a disjointed manner. When there is a chart that has insets or split areas, they sometimes have thin bands on one page and the rest on the other.

Warning: Even though these are PDFs, since the majority of it is raster images, they are big. The complete set of charts from Charleston to Savannah was about 130mb.

But, getting the most up-to-date charts for free overcomes the slight presentation problems. Thanks for posting! I've printed about 4 of them and will use them around Charleston, soon. They go further up the Wando river than either my electronic ones or the MapTech Chartkit.

-dan

speedoo · 25-08-2008, 14:10

Excellent! Thanks for posting this. I note that charts for Puerto Rico, the passage Islands and USVI are included. Nice, will definitely try this out. At a minimum these will be great supplements to my chartkits.

**Pblais** · 25-08-2008, 15:05

They have not relased all of them yet but they do make a handy setup for the cockpit where a full sized chart might be too big to manage. Many don't get split that logically. They seem to have an automated process to slice up a normal chart.

13-08-2008, 02:37	#3
GordMay Administrator Site Administrator Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W Boat: C.L.O.D. (Cruiser Living On Dirt) Posts: 9,455 Images: 232	Very cool! Print on 11 x 17" Ledger, if you can. __________________ Gord May ~~_/)_~~ (Gord & Maggie - "Southbound") "If you didn't have time/$ to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"

25-08-2008, 15:05	#6
Pblais Moderator Site Helper Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hayes, VA Boat: Gozzard 36 - Bright Eyes Posts: 4,544 Images: 7	They have not relased all of them yet but they do make a handy setup for the cockpit where a full sized chart might be too big to manage. Many don't get split that logically. They seem to have an automated process to slice up a normal chart. __________________ Paul Blais s/v Bright Eyes Gozzard 36 37 15.7 N 76 28.9 W

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Therapy Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 1,556	Cool! Thanks. edit: The lines on the "approxomate page index" are a mile off for the one I checked (11415, pg 14)............but who cares!!!!

13-08-2008, 16:18	#4
dacust Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Southeast USA. Boat in Charleston. Boat: 1982 Sea Ray SRV360 - "Woodstock" Posts: 386	They are printed across pages in a disjointed manner. When there is a chart that has insets or split areas, they sometimes have thin bands on one page and the rest on the other. Warning: Even though these are PDFs, since the majority of it is raster images, they are big. The complete set of charts from Charleston to Savannah was about 130mb. But, getting the most up-to-date charts for free overcomes the slight presentation problems. Thanks for posting! I've printed about 4 of them and will use them around Charleston, soon. They go further up the Wando river than either my electronic ones or the MapTech Chartkit. -dan

25-08-2008, 14:10	#5
speedoo Registered User Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 228	Excellent! Thanks for posting this. I note that charts for Puerto Rico, the passage Islands and USVI are included. Nice, will definitely try this out. At a minimum these will be great supplements to my chartkits.