It's about time. Paper charts are going away.

Lots of small boats out there that have no need of chart plotters, but still need some information about the waters they are navigating. It would be dumb to do away with paper charts.

George
 
the next generation of boaters will not be able to read a road map, let alone a paper chart.

So thankful I was born WHERE and WHEN I was

SERIOUSLY !

RWS
 
Stupid idea, I always have my paper charts out as a backup when I travel. I also use them to plan my routes
 
I suspect that Chart books and other privately published charts will stick around. Even with a plotter I find them useful. I have not bought a NOAA chart in a long time.
 
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They will still be available from private publishers, no big deal

Electronics can fail, but nowadays every boast has at least one smart phone on board anyway.

I don’t remember the last time, if ever, I ve had a plotter suddenly fail. Odds are as low as a paper chart being blow off in the water. :)
 
Never once had a chart blow off into the water.

It was twice, or thrice, not once. I never had it happen AFTER the first few times prompted me to stop allowing anything paper and important on the open bridge.
 
Just bought new intracoastal charts from Norfolk to Fla. tough to plan a route at home when plotter is on the boat. Even have paper charts on the bridge of my aircraft carrier. Required to carry paper in case of electronics failure.. what happens when the Chinese mess with our GPS sats?
 
PascalG said:
They will still be available from private publishers, no big deal

Electronics can fail, but nowadays every boast has at least one smart phone on board anyway.

I don’t remember the last time, if ever, I ve had a plotter suddenly fail. Odds are as low as a paper chart being blow off in the water. :)
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On my last ICW runs I just made sure i had some electronic backup! ;-)
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what happens when the EMP goes off???

RWS
 
Yeah if an emp goes off or the chicoms mess with GPS, boating charts will be the least of our concern.
 
"
End of Traditional Paper Charts - In November 2019, NOAA initiated a five-year process to end all raster nautical chart production, including the five traditional paper chart products described on this webpage and within the expandable blue bars below. NOAA is intent on easing the transition to ENC-based products while continuing to support safe navigation. This includes improving data consistency and providing larger scale coverage for the electronic navigational chart (NOAA ENC®).

New Paper Chart Product - NOAA is aware that some chart users prefer paper charts. Although production of traditional paper charts will stop, a new form of paper nautical chart will be available through the NOAA Custom Chart capability (currently in prototype form). This system will enable users to create, customize, and print paper charts themselves, or have large format charts printed and delivered by a NOAA certified print-on-demand (POD) chart agent. We encourage those who want to continue using paper charts to become familiar with the NOAA Custom Chart prototype and let us know how to improve the system.
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I had my GPS suddenly turn off in the middle of Sarasota bay on time. Now I've been in that bay hundreds of times so there was no emergency. Still it gave me a bit of a start. Turns out the cause was an installation error. To my chagrin, it was me who did the install.
 
Roy said:
I had my GPS suddenly turn off in the middle of Sarasota bay on time. Now I've been in that bay hundreds of times so there was no emergency. Still it gave me a bit of a start. Turns out the cause was an installation error. To my chagrin, it was me who did the install.
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Whenever I get in a spot when I really need nav data like coming in a cut in the Bahamas at night, I have my iPad and iPhone both up an running Aquamap. This way if the nav system goes down... I m ready. Never happened but....
 
Gregory S said:
So what happens when the electronics fail?
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People had better have redundancy if they are taking trips to new locations. We had three. Garmin, Furuno, and Nobeltec. From what I have seen people have had their faces planted on a glass bridge for some time. Instead of learning to read the water in the Bahamas they stare at the screens and plow on.

I really would not want to be fumbling with a paper chart at night while traversing an inlet. I cannot imagine turning the lights on to read the chart.
 
I like my laminated chart of the Delaware bay. I don't recall the publisher, but I'll make sure I get a new one this year. It's good for getting a basic idea of how you want to go and how many miles it takes. I then use my iPad GPS while I'm driving. The GPS gives me course and speed on the same page as the map. I don't need anything more sophisticated in the Delaware bay.
 
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