Updates to Admiralty paper charts

[NigelCraig]

I've just bought two new Admiralty charts, AC2290 Exe estuary and 2255, approaches to portsmouth and weymouth. The vendor assured me these were up to date supplied by kelvin Hughes. But, as 2255 is march 2010, I doubt that. With Imray you can print off a list of corrections for transferring to the charts, which is fine. But with these all i can find is refernces to a list of notices to to mariners of which there are a number since 3/2010, but no clues at to where to find the content.
Is there any easy (and free!) way of updating admiralty paper charts?

 

[awol]

You need to try harder! http://www.ukho.gov.uk/nmwebsearch/XML/NMSelection4703.pdf is what you need. Fight your way through the UKHO site to find www.nmwebsearch.com. and insert your charts. You will only find updates to current issues of charts.

edit: it's not obvious on my screen but "Your charts" is clickable to your updates

 

[VicS]

I think this page is the starting point you require

http://www.ukho.gov.uk/nmwebsearch/default.aspx

It might be wise to read the guidance notes but it is straight forward enough

 

[awol]

You need to try harder! http://www.ukho.gov.uk/nmwebsearch/XML/NMSelection4703.pdf is what you need. Fight your way through the UKHO site to find www.nmwebsearch.com. and insert your charts. You will only find updates to current issues of charts.

edit: it's not obvious on my screen but "Your charts" is clickable to your updates

That wasn't my finest hour but I claim I did it in a hurry. The first link which should have been your actual chart updates seems to have failed totally and there was an extraneous full stop in www.nmwebsearch.com. My intentions were good ........

 

[VicS]

That wasn't my finest hour but I claim I did it in a hurry. The first link which should have been your actual chart updates seems to have failed totally and there was an extraneous full stop in www.nmwebsearch.com. My intentions were good ........

Sorry I did not see that. Easily done , adding a full stop to a URL, but it only seems to happen when you don't go to preview and check the link !

 

[nigel1]

I've just bought two new Admiralty charts, AC2290 Exe estuary and 2255, approaches to portsmouth and weymouth. The vendor assured me these were up to date supplied by kelvin Hughes. But, as 2255 is march 2010, I doubt that. With Imray you can print off a list of corrections for transferring to the charts, which is fine. But with these all i can find is refernces to a list of notices to to mariners of which there are a number since 3/2010, but no clues at to where to find the content.
Is there any easy (and free!) way of updating admiralty paper charts?

The charts will have been kept corrected by Kelvin Hughes, the main reason why these are so expensive. Look at the bottom left hand margin, there will be a list of the corrections added since the edition date. In the case of 2255, the last NTM was 5039 of 2012.

 

[NigelCraig]

The charts will have been kept corrected by Kelvin Hughes, the main reason why these are so expensive. Look at the bottom left hand margin, there will be a list of the corrections added since the edition date. In the case of 2255, the last NTM was 5039 of 2012.

OMG so they are! 2290, which is a later edition has hand applied corrections. I'm assuming the 2010/2011/2012 corrections on 2255 will have been applied by an amendment to the digital file before they are printed off.

Thanks for the links which I will bookmark. Out of interest what do folks use to make corrections - presumably something with v. fine nib but waterproof.

I will try harder in future

 

[nigel1]

Rotring drawing pen and magenta coloured ink.

 

[prv]

Out of interest what do folks use to make corrections - presumably something with v. fine nib but waterproof.

The finest-tipped pen I could find (and it still seems too fat for fiddly stuff sometimes) in purple.

Pete

 

[alan_d]

Out of interest what do folks use to make corrections - presumably something with v. fine nib but waterproof.

There is a UKHO publication: "How to Keep your Admiralty Products Up-to-Date" NP294 £ 11.55

 

[nigel1]

There is a UKHO publication: "How to Keep your Admiralty Products Up-to-Date" NP294 £ 11.55

Here is a link to a pdf copy of an older edition of the publication, although the page order is a bit mixed up
http://helptodeckofficers.weebly.com/uploads/7/6/0/6/7606986/23643063-admiralty-chart-correction.pdf

If you want really neat corrections, there is this

http://www.thomasgunn.com/onlineshop/Shop/Default.aspx?TopLevelCategory=IN&SelectSubCategory=IN02

but very expensive, I'll stick with the drawing pen

 

[Sceptre Preservation]

The finest-tipped pen I could find (and it still seems too fat for fiddly stuff sometimes) in purple.

Pete

I find Rotring ink smudges badly in the wet, and it doesn't seem to be available in Magenta any more. I've just bought a Pilot HI-TEC-C (0.13mm) and a Pilot G-TEC-C4 (0.2mm) from www.cultpens.com and they're great: available with purple/violet ink, much cheaper than Rotring (around £2.50 each) and don't smudge.