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Do people keep paper charts on board in case of a failure of their electronic chart plotter?
 
I keep a chart book for Lake Erie. In fact, I will be buying an updated book this spring.
 
I keep a chart book for the Chesapeake bay on the boat.
 
Yeah i do but it’s more to have other information or the big picture than for redundancy. We spent most of the time in the Bahamas and i Keep Explorer chart books. Stateside, I don’t carry paper because I m so familiar with home waters that I don’t need them. As a back up I have 2 iPads, a PC with USB GPS and an iPhone all with loaded charts and software
 
I do not own any paper charts. But I tend to travel the same stretches of water over and over - so don’t really see the need. they still make paper charts ? (:
 
alk said:
they still make paper charts ?
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Yes. And no.

NOAA paper charts are to be phased out by Jan 2025


But there is an alternate to the historical method of acquiring a chart for an area by Chart Number: User defined area chart, printed on demand, by NOAA PoD vendors.

I get the impression that this could be much like the old AAA "trip tick", in that you select the desired coverage area, and they print that, even though it might contain one or more full and/or partial "Chart numbers".


NOAA wants out of the printing business.
 
always have paper charts aboard for the area of the Hudson we're in and add charts whenever we travel.
 
I always have paper charts at the helm. Not necessarily for redundancy, considering I have 2 GPS’s, iPad and iPhone with navionics and other apps. I find it a lot easier to see the bigger picture on the paper chart, than on my 12” screen. Its also easier to show others how to navigate sections on paper.
 
Where ever we cruised we had paper charts regardless of whether or not we were very familiar with the area. While we had updated soft charts on the computers that were running nav software connected to a GPS we always cross checked against paper charts. In spite of that we got stuck in the mud of the Jersey ICW and had to get yanked out. 😄
 
boatbum said:
Where ever we cruised we had paper charts regardless of whether or not we were very familiar with the area. While we had updated soft charts on the computers that were running nav software connected to a GPS we always cross checked against paper charts. In spite of that we got stuck in the mud of the Jersey ICW and had to get yanked out. 😄
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Charts and GPS are useless in the NJ ICW. You must have local knowledge, high tide and luck to stay off the bottom :)
 
I like paper charts for the 'big picture" overview, as others have said.
The redundancy doesn't hurt, either.
 
I have a chart book for western lake Erie. As mentioned I use it mainly for overview, big picture.
 
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