Ideas for using old charts?

[Poignard]

Lampshades?

 

[Hydrozoan]

Lampshades?

No. 12 of the 35.

 

[Spyro]

Plenty for sale on ebay. Someone must want them perhaps some trendy nautical themed restaurants or cafes. They look good on the walls.

 

[ripvan1]

Revitalise an old table with chart and put glass over them.

 

[ripvan1]

Or even stick them on piece of board and make jigsaws. Yep might try that. Size no limit.

 

[Poignard]

I'd better do some rubbing-out before I display my old charts. The huge cocked-hats, question marks and scribbled remarks such as "Where the hell are we?", "Remember to unlash the tiller before leaving" etc. might be embarrassing.

 

[Hydrozoan]

More prosaically, as drawer liners.

I'd better do some rubbing-out before I display my old charts. The huge cocked-hats, question marks and scribbled remarks such as "Where the hell are we?", "Remember to unlash the tiller before leaving" etc. might be embarrassing.

The historian would surely disapprove: 'This is a swift doodle, drawn hurriedly by a busy man ... As such, it enables us to ... catch a faint echo of the excitement ...'
http://www.rmg.co.uk/work-services/...awn-plan-battle-trafalgar-discovered-national

 

[G12]

Some really great ideas here guys, thanks.

I've decided to cut, mount and frame some interesting sections of the more local charts and put them on the wall in 10x8" frames - I actually have a wall that is perfect for this and I'd intended to put some of my own photography there but it's going to get a mix of both pictures and charts now. Might stick less relevant ones on ebay...

 

[Mariner69]

The engineers on our ships in the 1970's used to welcome them for making gaskets for the opposed piston Doxford engines. Must have been something to do with the fathoms and black and white appearance.

 

[PotatoNavigator]

I quite like the ones made 3D by cutting them along the contours and mounting on modelling board:

http://www.latitudekinsale.com/products/3d-charts/

 

[Lucky Duck]

Who's name is on the front door?

Thought that only applied to licensed premises

 

[gregcope]

Not mine

 

[Offshore57]

We have a framed Imray chart of the IOW and the solent on the lounge wall.......framing wasnt cheap but I love it .....

 

[JTulls]

Navigation classes might find some use for them...otherwise I second using them for wrapping paper!

 

[VO5]

I use my old charts as book covers, also as templates for fiddly jobs that need to be accurate like for example working out floor contours when laying tiles. I also cut them up into manageable sizes to make presentable working drawings (end, side, plan views etc.,) for some project or other.

 

[TQA]

Egads sir, this thread is making me feel even more of an old dinosaur than usual as I still use paper charts to navigate.

One of the Admiralty charts of Turks and Caicos was drawn up in 18 something and last updated in 1908. The GPS I have gives me lat longs quite different from the chart.

 

[Hadenough]

Egads sir, this thread is making me feel even more of an old dinosaur than usual as I still use paper charts to navigate.

One of the Admiralty charts of Turks and Caicos was drawn up in 18 something and last updated in 1908. The GPS I have gives me lat longs quite different from the chart.

So which do you trust?

 

[TQA]

So which do you trust?

TRUST ?

Neither, a wise navigator relies on good light and the mark one eyeball.

 

[prv]

Egads sir, this thread is making me feel even more of an old dinosaur than usual as I still use paper charts to navigate.

Surely the people who have surplus charts are exactly the ones who use them for serious navigation, and therefore keep their portfolio up to date resulting in a small but steady stream of superceded editions. Those who've gone over to full-time plotter use will tend to hang onto a fixed stock of charts "as backup" however old they get, and not dispose of them until they finally swallow the anchor.

Appreciate things are a bit different in your part of the world where surveys and new editions are not a common occurrence

Pete

 

[JClarkes]

My Granda gave me an old 1834 chart of Strangford lough , just got it framed and hung on the wall. People comment on it all the time.