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Forum: Navigation 22-08-2012, 12:15
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Posted By stevewrye
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

OK Nolex, I will top your tale or maybe add to it. In 1972, pretty deep into the S. Pacific I met a Vancouver, BC. couple on their beautiful boat who did not know how to use a sextant. Compass was...
Forum: Navigation 21-08-2012, 16:48
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Views: 97,915
Posted By stevewrye
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

That is just it, no one should trust digital/paper and I know of no good long range sailor who would. But for many a paper chart of the right size gives a great overview of the area and some of the...
Forum: Navigation 21-08-2012, 15:01
Replies: 1,005
Views: 97,915
Posted By stevewrye
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

I'm guessing that it is only proper to have the proper chart on the nav station.:D I'm guessing that the proper chart gives you an idea of what your looking for. Notice I said idea. Not only will...
Forum: Navigation 21-08-2012, 13:02
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Views: 97,915
Posted By stevewrye
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Just curious of how many here have crossed the Pacific or the Atlantic without paper charts of destinations you had planned on visiting? On the last crossing of Pacific I do not recall any cruiser...
Forum: Navigation 17-08-2012, 17:19
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Views: 97,915
Posted By stevewrye
Re: Paper Charts Now Unnecessary

Cost for 15 sets of Bellingham 2/3 charts for English channel, Europe west coast, Morocco, canaries/verde Islands, Caribbean Sea, Venezuela to Panama, Central America Pacific side, South pacific,...
Forum: Navigation 16-07-2012, 14:38
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Views: 97,915
Posted By stevewrye
Re: Paper charts now unnessary

I guess I could not go anywhere without charts. We use Bellingham 3/4 charts, black and white. We spend lots of time going over them before we leave on a passage coloring in points of danger and...
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