Online charts

[fisherman]

Didn't realise these are available all round the coast, seem to have all the info, up to date? don't know...
i-Boating : Free Marine Navigation Charts & Fishing Maps

 

[Martin_J]

The other option which is up to date is Navionics own website....

Navionics ChartViewer

 

[fisherman]

The other option which is up to date is Navionics own website....

Navionics ChartViewer

they do a bathymetric chart which seems to be approaching what Maxsea shows, but without the interactive features.

 

[kippers26]

The information provided on Navionics charts by " Sailors" should be treated with a little bit of caution. I was recently at a small fishing port and overheard a few locals grumbling about a yacht anchored in the bay behind the pier, paid berths were available in the harbour. The navionics chart shows a mooring symbol in the bay but what it doesn`t say is that it is the area where the locals keep their storage pots for lobster and crab traditionaly marked with the usual 25 litre drums. If the yacht had dragged her anchor she would have had a good feed of lobster or crab and possibly a few angry fishermen. Should the line of 25l drums have given him a clue, or is it a case of well its marked on the chart so I can anchor ?

 

[Snowgoose-1]

Didn't realise these are available all round the coast, seem to have all the info, up to date? don't know...
i-Boating : Free Marine Navigation Charts & Fishing Maps

Interesting. Thanks. Is there a way to change feet depths to metres ?

 

[fisherman]

Interesting. Thanks. Is there a way to change feet depths to metres ?

Yes. click the four bars top left

 

[penfold]

The information provided on Navionics charts by " Sailors" should be treated with a little bit of caution. I was recently at a small fishing port and overheard a few locals grumbling about a yacht anchored in the bay behind the pier, paid berths were available in the harbour. The navionics chart shows a mooring symbol in the bay but what it doesn`t say is that it is the area where the locals keep their storage pots for lobster and crab traditionaly marked with the usual 25 litre drums. If the yacht had dragged her anchor she would have had a good feed of lobster or crab and possibly a few angry fishermen. Should the line of 25l drums have given him a clue, or is it a case of well its marked on the chart so I can anchor ?

So they clag up a perfectly good anchorage with barrels because what? They were there first? Some people prefer to anchor.

 

[Kelpie]

The information provided on Navionics charts by " Sailors" should be treated with a little bit of caution. I was recently at a small fishing port and overheard a few locals grumbling about a yacht anchored in the bay behind the pier, paid berths were available in the harbour. The navionics chart shows a mooring symbol in the bay but what it doesn`t say is that it is the area where the locals keep their storage pots for lobster and crab traditionaly marked with the usual 25 litre drums. If the yacht had dragged her anchor she would have had a good feed of lobster or crab and possibly a few angry fishermen. Should the line of 25l drums have given him a clue, or is it a case of well its marked on the chart so I can anchor ?

Isn't there a general presumption that you can anchor somewhere unless a harbour authority etc forbids it?

 

[Snowgoose-1]

Yes. click the four bars top left

Doh ! Thanks.

 

[fisherman]

So they clag up a perfectly good anchorage with barrels because what? They were there first? Some people prefer to anchor.

You have to be pragmatic. The fishermen will usually put their store pots in one area. Should you anchor there
a) they will have to go elswhere, and may end up scattered all over the shop
b) you don't want to get tangled in a store pot: heavy, possibly unset your anchor, and you don't want him lifting the pot with your anchor, unmooring your boat
c) "she would have had a good feed of lobster or crab" Theft. Stealing by finding, as applies to a wallet picked up in the street.

 

[MontyMariner]

This is all I see
Am I doing something wrong?

 

[penfold]

When I use the link in the OP I get this.

 

[MontyMariner]

The above was on my Windows PC, I've just tried it on my Android Tablet and the chart loads ok.
Could be my Adblocker or the like!

 

[MontyMariner]

Interesting, double buoyage in Poole Harbour

 

[Refueler]

When I use the link in the OP I get this.
View attachment 158692

same for me ... but I zoomed out ... scrolled to Latvia and to my own location ... I have Adblockers etc.

 

[Ian_Rob]

I like the clarity of the online version of I-Boating but the information differs somewhat from the Navionics charts. For example , the online version of I-Boating shows the buoys in Clemerkin Lake which aren’t shown on the Navionics chart (at least on the version I have) but not the sea wall or the pool on the south side of the eastern creek. Does the purchased version have more detail? The depiction of marinas seem rather clearer than Navionics.

 

[Ian_Rob]

….. and marinas

 

[fisherman]

There is a buoy shown at the Lizard which hasn't been there for ten years at least, maybe twenty. Sewage pi[pe marker.

 

[thalassa]

Some of the Dutch charts are at least five years old.

 

[Refueler]

Some of the Dutch charts are at least five years old.

Considering that many are sailing around using ~15yr old CM93v2 charts ...... ?????