Anyone leave their charts on board ?

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Hi,

Given what happens to paper items left on board (ie they get slightly damp and "saggy") does anyone nere leave their charts on board when they're away from the boat ? I'm minded to do so since a leisure folio is a biggish thing to cart around every time and I wondered if anyone here has had any problems with excessive damp in their charts ?

Boo2
 
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You mean until now you've carted them backwards and forwards for each trip? I think that would be considered unusual. Especially now that for a lot of people (not me) they're only backups.

I take them home over the winter refit period, to save them from damp, possible damage from dust and chemicals, and so that I can correct them in the spring. I don't take them home during the season.

The plan is to have a much-reduced refit list this winter (hopefully I'm nearly finished!) and keep the boat in commission, in which case the charts will stay on board.

Pete
 
I wouldn't want to stay on a boat where I was worried about the charts going soggy before they go out of date.
I do take them home for planning, we don't need all the West Country and France charts aboard if we are only do weekends between Pagham and Weymouth...
 
If charts can get soggy inside plastic Leisure Folio wallets, you need to give your boat some urgent attention. The water is supposed to be outside.
 
I have charts and other paper things like instruction manuals and they don't get damp. They used to I my old boat though! I now have a solar powered vent that keeps the air moving and refreshed, and in the winter I have a 60W greenhouse tube heater plugged in at the inlet end of the airflow. All good so far.
 
salar said:
I have charts and other paper things like instruction manuals and they don't get damp. They used to I my old boat though! I now have a solar powered vent that keeps the air moving and refreshed, and in the winter I have a 60W greenhouse tube heater plugged in at the inlet end of the airflow. All good so far.
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Ditto.

Damp is never a problem and we keep lots of books etc. onboard as well.
 
I still have a set of charts and paper manuals on my boat. They are removed from the boat on hard stand during the winter season.
Two winters ago I have downloaded all manuals and service instructions for the equipment from the internet and stored them in a separate folder on my home computer.
This whole folder is then transferred to a 10" Aldi tablet in spring.
The tablet is also connected to a W-lan ( Simrad go-free) and gives me all plotter and navigation data as a mirror image down at the nav station.
Chart Navigation ( Navionics ) is still done on the plotter and paper Chart. I found the latter better for passage planning.

The best thing having the Manuals as pdf. ( i.e. the Volov Manual ) is using the search function and the possibility to blow the pictures up.
I also have of course a USB stick as a backup.
 
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A few of my charts are well over 10 years old, have never been off the boat. We do put our books in a big plastic bag over winter. None of them are ever damp but the boat design does make a huge difference. Our Sadler almost never suffers condensation whereas our old motorsailer runs with water (inside) sometimes.
 
I have some charts that are older than me. And they've been left on board every summer, though taken home each winter.
I usually take aboard those charts that are relevant to the likely seasons trips. Not much point in having North sea charts when sailing on west coast. Have never strayed THAT far off course. They don't get musty or damp. They have individually been wet though, when in use.
 
I did have some ancient charts that got damp and mouldy eventually. However being on the boat in a thunderstorm made me attend to all the leaks. Boat's much drier now!!!
 
Charts on my mab do fine, so does my bedding and spare clothes.

I do take everything off end of November and out it back mid March.
 
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