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Do charts need to be updated?
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tcm
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Re: Damaged charts
I had some quite nice charts, but had to throw them away when i discovered that somebody seems to have been drawing and doodling all over them! I have a pretty good idea who this is, and up until i thought they were a highly experienced boaty. I just shows eh? tsk.
Trying to follow people is always diffficult. Just chatting with people, and telling them when and where you plan to go will usually get them working and worrying away, and within half an hour they'll rush over to tell you the tide is best at 10:30.
I had some quite nice charts, but had to throw them away when i discovered that somebody seems to have been drawing and doodling all over them! I have a pretty good idea who this is, and up until i thought they were a highly experienced boaty. I just shows eh? tsk.
Trying to follow people is always diffficult. Just chatting with people, and telling them when and where you plan to go will usually get them working and worrying away, and within half an hour they'll rush over to tell you the tide is best at 10:30.
Robin
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Very true
Because it seems like any changes take ages anyway before they appear in Notices and major changes that require inserts or even new chart printing take even longer. The major re-alignment of the Ushant TSS NE corner in 2003 was a case in point, there were warnings that it would happen, then a notification that it would happen on a specific date, then it took months before the full details were published and either an overlay or a new chart was printed which effectively it meant 'next year' for us.
Because it seems like any changes take ages anyway before they appear in Notices and major changes that require inserts or even new chart printing take even longer. The major re-alignment of the Ushant TSS NE corner in 2003 was a case in point, there were warnings that it would happen, then a notification that it would happen on a specific date, then it took months before the full details were published and either an overlay or a new chart was printed which effectively it meant 'next year' for us.
ianwright
New member
You may have a point,,,,,,
I sailed from Heybridge Basin on the Blackwater up the coast past the Orwell, waited a while for the tide off the Deben Bar, entered the river and picked up a mooring off Ramsholt. (Handy for the pub). I didn't need to look at the chart at all, I know the way.
However,,,,,,,,,, a yacht slightly bigger than mine had followed me from West Mersea and chose a mooring a couple of buoys away. As I rowed to the pub he waved and nodded to me and as I passed him he asked "Is this the Ore or the Alde?"
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I sailed from Heybridge Basin on the Blackwater up the coast past the Orwell, waited a while for the tide off the Deben Bar, entered the river and picked up a mooring off Ramsholt. (Handy for the pub). I didn't need to look at the chart at all, I know the way.
However,,,,,,,,,, a yacht slightly bigger than mine had followed me from West Mersea and chose a mooring a couple of buoys away. As I rowed to the pub he waved and nodded to me and as I passed him he asked "Is this the Ore or the Alde?"
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tome
New member
Agree about charts, and that magenta correction ink can make a real mess of the boat. I have a collection of waypoints which I use. Some of them are getting a bit tatty now, so I expect to have to replace a few this season.
tcm
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Tatty waypoints
harumph! Those were my waypoints that i let you borrow! and there's nothing "tatty" about them.
harumph! Those were my waypoints that i let you borrow! and there's nothing "tatty" about them.
tome
New member
Re: Tatty waypoints
They were knackered when you lent them to me. Most of them were in fathoms, and the only one we've been able to use is 'ye Spithead'. Cheepskate!
They were knackered when you lent them to me. Most of them were in fathoms, and the only one we've been able to use is 'ye Spithead'. Cheepskate!