In the past I had the impression that the weekly updates of oCharts are pretty good reflecting the
current changes in buoys in my area. However, this week I ran into a missing update, which
safety relevant.
If you look at the attached
screen shot, which shows the buoyed channel to the island of Sylt, the northern most island of
Germany in the german bight.
Minor point: the buoys should be labeled "LT1", "LT1a" and so forth and not "No 1", since the channel is called "Lister Tief".
More important: "LT3" has been moved two weeks ago. In the attached screenshot you can see a green buoy labeled "LT 3" added by myself manually and the buoy labelled "No 3" a little bit to the south, which is the buoy in the electronic chart corresponding to the old position. In the
current track (in dark green) we verified that the buoy in real live is at its new position. We had to tack around the buoy, so we passed it very close, maybe 50-100m.
Best,
Manfred
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