What Navionics charts for Holland?

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I'm thinking of going to Holland next year and that set me to looking into what electronic charts might be needed.

We have Raymarine kit and 46XG chip. Looking at the Navionics site, it seems this covers Belgium and Holland (southern end at least) but maybe we ought to get 28XG as well as it covers more Northerly bits of Holland and the E Coast UK further North too.

But is it worth the extra cost for only a little bit more cover? (28XG could come in handy if we decide to get back to Cornwall round the top of Scotland! Not planning too mind you.)

(We will be taking paper ones too)
 
Not sure how this compares to what you suggest with the old individual cards, but if you have any existing Navionics product (excluding smartphone apps etc) then £80 gets you an upgrade to their new way of doing things. You have to lock the new card to a particular region (for example, Europe, or the USA) and then within that region you can download whichever coverage you need by dragging a box across a map on a web page. In practice I was able to fit the whole of the UK and near Continent on mine in one go, which renders the box-dragging system a little pointless, but I guess it makes sense in larger regions. The chart is up to date to the day you download it, and you can go back as often as you like within a year to update it. They then sell subscriptions (with the slightly silly name of "Freshest Data") to allow you to continue for subsequent years. I'm not sure what that costs as my first year has only just expired and I'm waiting till next season to restart my subscription, thus I should squeeze two years out of it as I only update in the spring anyway :)

Pete
 
I have been to Holland and will return next year. Tip. If you wish to sail the Waddenzee you must but buy the latest edition paper chart set because of continuous changes. Postpone purchase until arrival Amsterdam or Den Helder.
 
We go regularly to or through the North of the Netherlands, and usually buy the latest charts of the Waddensea when we arrive. Any electronic version is probably out of date by the time they issue it. The paper versions used to be issued every year in February, and were often out of date by the summer - the channels move a lot, often by a mile or more. But they were not issued in 2014, because (according to the chandler in IJmuiden) the hydrographic office was short of money!
I have not found it easy to find the chart corrections, either.

We also have a 2013 version of the navionics gold UK and Holland chart (can't tell you the number - it's on the boat!). It was OK this last summer - we were very careful to follow buoys rather than the chart when they differed (which they did by a long way on the Lauwersoog entrance, but luckily a Dutchman we met in Denmark had warned us of that).
 
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