Which Charts do you use?

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2013PrincessV39

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Hi All,

I am currently using Admiratly leisure folios (Solent 5600) for my Navigation, but I'm finding them rather large in size; primarily due to my charting area being A4 sized.

I would love to know what charts others use?

Thank you for your replies.
 
2013PrincessV39 said:
Hi All,

I am currently using Admiratly leisure folios (Solent 5600) for my Navigation, but I'm finding them rather large in size; primarily due to my charting area being A4 sized.

I would love to know what charts others use?

Thank you for your replies.
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Personally I like Imray for a few reasons: first, I like the way they show sectored lights, second, it appeals to me that the deeper the sea, the darker the blue rather than Admiralty which shows bluewater as white - traditionally because it was cheaper and third, because the paper is plastic coated and seems both more splash-resistant and more tolerant of being folded into odd configurations.
 
benjenbav said:
Personally I like Imray for a few reasons: first, I like the way they show sectored lights, second, it appeals to me that the deeper the sea, the darker the blue rather than Admiralty which shows bluewater as white - traditionally because it was cheaper and third, because the paper is plastic coated and seems both more splash-resistant and more tolerant of being folded into odd configurations.
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Me too for imray folios. They cope with a lot more rubbing out too.
 
2013PrincessV39 said:
Hi All,

I am currently using Admiratly leisure folios (Solent 5600) for my Navigation, but I'm finding them rather large in size; primarily due to my charting area being A4 sized.

I would love to know what charts others use?

Thank you for your replies.
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Admiralty.. but can't say I use them anymore.
 
benjenbav said:
Personally I like Imray for a few reasons: first, I like the way they show sectored lights, second, it appeals to me that the deeper the sea, the darker the blue rather than Admiralty which shows bluewater as white - traditionally because it was cheaper and third, because the paper is plastic coated and seems both more splash-resistant and more tolerant of being folded into odd configurations.
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+1, though we do have the advantage of a full size chart table on the helm
 
The beauty of the Leisure folios is that its easy to put the A2 charts on an A4 copier and get an accurate copy of each quadrant,which is easy to hold in a wallet when in the cockpit.Going further if you scan them into the PC before printing you can calibrate them and put them in Seaclear.
Of course it's horses for courses .......
 
Another Imray user here too. Apart from the Channel Islands, where I have the Admiralty folio because I heard it was more detailed. Not sure whether that's really true, but it has taught me that the Admiralty corrections are more of a faff to apply than the Imray ones.

Pete
 
Navionics Platinum+. Updated daily if you want to with 2D/3D views, satellite overlay, real time radar overlay, panoramic port pictures, dynamic tides & currents and even sonar charts plus masses of info all in just about any scale you choose. Why would anyone use anything else, assuming they have a chartplotter/MFD of course. (and before the old school start chestnutting about power outages or MFD failures, nowadays there's more chance of my dog eating my paper chart, and I don't have a dog), all IMHO of course.
 
MYAG said:
Why would anyone use anything else, assuming they have a chartplotter/MFD of course. (and before the old school start chestnutting about power outages or MFD failures, nowadays there's more chance of my dog eating my paper chart, and I don't have a dog), all IMHO of course.
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+1
 
MYAG said:
Why would anyone use anything else
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In a motorboat I wouldn't. But in a relatively slow-moving sailyboat there's time and space to use paper, and I like the larger view. I also like the ability to draw on it, measure bearings, etc. Crossing the Channel, I guess you guys can just blast straight across, but I need to plan a curving track due to the tide, which I sketch onto the chart and then check my hourly plots roughly line up with.

(No arguments here about backups; with a bit of thought an electronic backup is a perfectly sound proposition.)

Pete
 
I scan my own raster charts in.
I find it useful to have different charts available.
As MYAG says, you don't really need much more than Navionics.
Thats what we use mostly on our systems.
But I have had my concerns over Navionics accuracy in the past.
So, all my screens can show a multitude of different charts.

Here is a view of some of my charts
This view shows three different chart sources - all "quilted" together.

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Scanned charts like this, show shore side facilities as well as navigation data.
 
prv said:
In a motorboat I wouldn't. But in a relatively slow-moving sailyboat there's time and space to use paper, and I like the larger view. I also like the ability to draw on it, measure bearings, etc. Crossing the Channel, I guess you guys can just blast straight across, but I need to plan a curving track due to the tide, which I sketch onto the chart and then check my hourly plots roughly line up with.

(No arguments here about backups; with a bit of thought an electronic backup is a perfectly sound proposition.)

Pete
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Even in a mobo southampton to st peter port can be anything between 90 and 110 miles over water, planning properly on paper is the only way to intentionally get the 90.

Paper is very much the back up apart from when passage planning but that wasn't the OPs question.
 
MYAG said:
Navionics Platinum+. Updated daily if you want to with 2D/3D views, satellite overlay, real time radar overlay, panoramic port pictures, dynamic tides & currents and even sonar charts plus masses of info all in just about any scale you choose. Why would anyone use anything else, assuming they have a chartplotter/MFD of course. (and before the old school start chestnutting about power outages or MFD failures, nowadays there's more chance of my dog eating my paper chart, and I don't have a dog), all IMHO of course.
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Can't help thinking you're on to something there, M :D
 
1. Whatever came in my Garmin 2. Navionics on my iPad 3. Imray on iPad, iPhone 4. Imray paper chart

For what is our longest journey of just over 100 miles we used the Imray paper charts to see the course + the GPS to know where we were, shich sounds like how it pans out for most people. I have some French ones too for Corsica + associated pilotage books and these are always used for planning and often navigation.
 
2013PrincessV39 said:
Hi All,

I am currently using Admiratly leisure folios (Solent 5600) for my Navigation, but I'm finding them rather large in size; primarily due to my charting area being A4 sized.

I would love to know what charts others use?

Thank you for your replies.
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Why do you still use paper charts?
 
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