The point of the chart table article ?

[andrewhopkins]

I didnt quite get this. What do you want me to do, get a saw out and make some improvements ?

Mildly interesting to hear someones views but if 99% if people buy a ready made design of boat, the chart table is already built for you. I know some allow options, e.g. The rustler 42 can come with chart drawers.

So what is the point in this article, are you going to run one on nice Heads next week ?

"The bowl should be 24 inches from the ground with handles each side to brace oneself during abolutions. Toilet paper should be Charmin Ultra with backup supplies close at hand"

I know, im being slightly sarcastic but a more useful article would be on how to stow charts, look after them, update them, etc. Things that we can actually do, use rather than coming to the article and thinking "ah well, nowt much I can do with my table"

 

[Twister_Ken]

Hear, hear! nm

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[tony_brighton]

Especially useful article would be how to update charts.

 

[Guest]

Looked like filler to me NM

 

[chrisc]

How about an article on knitting Chart cosies

 

[pugwash]

Moreover...

Didn't think a lot of the editor's free holiday story, either, except "Lucky girl."

 

[roger]

Not all of us have chart tables at all. I certainly would have difficulty getting one into my boat without major surgery and I dont think its that important to me. Sailing mostly as a couple and day sailing for preference (2 night passages in 2400 miles this year) the saloon table was quite sufficient.
A good GPS and a Yeoman sport plotter took care of navigational needs. The more important item we havent got yet is a GPS repeater for the cockpit. Many times I had to ask my wife to go below to check for the next leg on the route.
Up in Scandinavia a more useful mod probably would have been an extension lead for the Yeoman so //i could use that on deck.
More useful than chart updating, I feel, would be articles on how to get the best out of the GPS. How to use routes, to organise waypoints. (I currently have 300+ on my GPS) and to organise accuracy checks easily. ( I tend to look at the distances and bearings on a route to see if they are plausible but there must be a better way)
I used 20 year old charts in Sweden thisy year and did get disconcerted a couple of times where a lighthouse had been demolished and new bridges built. So chart updating is useful. On theother hand in Holland you really do need that years charts. The sand moves even month by month.

 

[andrewhopkins]

Add them up

Have a look at the back issues and see how many she gets from Sunsail. Antigua, etc etc.

They probably have an agreement where she gets a free holiday with her mates and a story and Sunsail agree to place advertising.

 

[ianwright]

>I didnt quite get this. What do you want me to do, get a saw out and make some improvements ?<

Why not? Is your boat so perfect that no improvement is possable? In any case the point of that piece was, I guess, to inform folk who might be buying or building a new boat that there are few places on a cruising boat more important than the chart table, so a little thought in that area wouldn't be wasted.
For example my Vertue (25ft) has a "stand up" cart table large enough for a full sized adm chart,,,, unfolded. It's a joy,,,,,,,

IanW.

 

[Guest]

Why not? Is your boat so perfect that no improvement is possable? In any case the point of that piece was, I guess, to inform folk who might be buying or building a new boat that there are few places on a cruising boat more important than the chart table, so a little thought in that area wouldn't be wasted.
For example my Vertue (25ft) has a "stand up" cart table large enough for a full sized adm chart,,,, unfolded. It's a joy,,,,,,,

I agree - the assumption that the only way to design a chart table is to incorporate a seat loses is wrong and to make purchasers aware that there is a possible better way is helping to spread boating experience.

Regarding your experience with your Virtue, this was the boat that I learn't to sail and againg I agree that it's chart table is a joy.

Finally, if you follow the tone of these critisisms you would have to exclude a large number of articles which, for example, review boats which reallistically most readers would never be able to afford.

Regards
Howard

 

[PeteMcK]

Re: Add them up

Quite a few yacht mags are looking more and more like PR sheets.

 

[Twister_Ken]

>Finally, if you follow the tone of these critisisms you would have to exclude a large number of articles which, for example, review boats which reallistically most readers would never be able to afford.<

Now there's a good idea!