nautical charts

[oldbouy]

I currently have a lowrance chart and depth finder . I am currently looking for very explicit navigation charts of the Washington state Puget Sound and Canadian waters in large book form . electronics break down and I would like a backup plan. thank you .

 

[dingbat]

I currently have a lowrance chart and depth finder . I am currently looking for very explicit navigation charts of the Washington state Puget Sound and Canadian waters in large book form . electronics break down and I would like a backup plan. thank you .

I’ve not seen large format book maps in years. NOAA discontinued support for printed maps several years ago.

U.S. Office of Coast Survey

I run two (2) chart plotters for redundancy with a hand-held battery backup.

 

[Horigan]

Check out Maptech. Not sure how far north into BC they go.

 

[racerone]

You can find charts online for practically any body of water in the world.

 

[nola mike]

Some interesting options here: https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/publications/print-agents.html#coast-pilot

I don't see a free way to do it easily though.

EDIT:You can go to the custom chart creator and make your own to export as a pdf. Actually pretty cool.

NOAA Custom Chart

devgis.charttools.noaa.gov

Takes a little effort, and you'd be left with whatever the limitations of your printer are, but there ya go. Suggest watching the video under the help section.

EDIT2: Might be fun to play around with photo printing (poster) or large size document printing through ups or staples or whatever. I tried it quickly with walgreens and it wouldn't accept pdf, but could convert it to jpg and see, or find somewhere that can print a pdf.

 

[jbcurt00]

A blueprints place would have a large scale plotter and could deal with PDFs

 

[tphoyt]

It’s good to hear there are still people interested in having charts on board and know how to use them should the fancy electronic stuff fail.
It could save your life.

 

[motley crew]

i use water proof chart number whatever standard navigationfrom waterproof charts.com should be available at a marina in the seattle tacoma gig harbor area

 

[dingbat]

It’s good to hear there are still people interested in having charts on board and know how to use them should the fancy electronic stuff fail.

As someone who has been “flashed” twice and “lost” once, it’s easier said than done to go from satellite to map navigation if you don’t have a means to determine the exact position from which to start.

A battery powered, hand held gps not only gives you position data, but will get you home in a pinch