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ghostlymoron2

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I've been clearing out the contents of my friends boat. He passed away last month. He had virtually all the UK cruising folios of Admiral charts and I wonder what's the best way of getting rid. They're not up to date. I'll make a donation to RNLI if i can sell them on.
 
ghostlymoron2 said:
I've been clearing out the contents of my friends boat. He passed away last month. He had virtually all the UK cruising folios of Admiral charts and I wonder what's the best way of getting rid. They're not up to date. I'll make a donation to RNLI if i can sell them on.
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If Small Craft Folios and less than 20 years old (ie metres and WGS 84 datum) you might find a buyer here on the For Sale forum.
Many like paper for passage planning / backup for doing a round Britain or similar.
 
dunedin said:
If Small Craft Folios and less than 20 years old (ie metres and WGS 84 datum) you might find a buyer here on the For Sale forum.
Many like paper for passage planning / backup for doing a round Britain or similar.
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I have a large collection of cancelled charts from when I was Ships Officer .... all are over 35yrs old .... I still value them for table top dreaming / planning .... nice to run finger along ... jot a few coords ... then when actually creating the route on plotter - you refine it ... much more rewarding than Auto-routeing etc.
 
ghostlymoron2 said:
I've been clearing out the contents of my friends boat. He passed away last month. He had virtually all the UK cruising folios of Admiral charts and I wonder what's the best way of getting rid. They're not up to date. I'll make a donation to RNLI if i can sell them on.
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I’m sorry for your loss. I bet if you create an excel sheet showing chart number and year you’ll get plenty of offers on here.

That said, you might just want rid en mass in which case seek out an artist that does nautical stuff.
 
I could write a long essay on this subject....in 2008 I stepped off a Benetesu 50 in Vigo and the captain who had several Sydney to Hobart yacht races said "do yourself a favour never get on a boat that doesn't have paper charts".Tin hat now fitted
 
I bought some of those folios on one of the Facebook boaty stuff for sale groups when I bought my boat in 2019. I've barely looked at them, but I like to have paper charts on board, just in case.

I can't tell you for sure how much I paid for them - probably about £20 each.
 
Offer them to your local U3A craft group. They will probably be able to use them on projects.
A couple of years ago I was walking across the marina car park and this couple asked if I could use their deceased friends charts and books as otherwise they were going to bin them. I kept a couple of the books and a couple of charts which weren’t in my portfolio and gave the rest to the craft group
 
crown22 said:
I could write a long essay on this subject....in 2008 I stepped off a Benetesu 50 in Vigo and the captain who had several Sydney to Hobart yacht races said "do yourself a favour never get on a boat that doesn't have paper charts".Tin hat now fitted
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Did you write your essay on the back of his charts?
 
I might be mistaken but I think that zooming in and out on a chart plotter can cause the navigator to become disoriented and loose sight or memory of a hazard.
I'm thinking of an expensive yacht that recently arrived on top of a large off lying rock somewhere near Cardigan Bay
 
Before plotters, some people ran aground and wrecked their boats, with plotters some people have ran aground (or into things) and wrecked their boats.

It’s the fallibility of humans that needs to be addressed, not the media.
 
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