Thursday, January 31, 2013

Free NOAA charts

http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/staff/BookletChart.html

NOAA has a product, booklet charts, that are free and downloadable. NOAA's new official BookletCharts cover the 95,000 miles of U.S. coastline and the Great Lakes. The BookletCharts contain most of the information found on NOAA's full-scale nautical charts, but it is presented as reduced-scale.

Coast Survey has now moved the BookletCharts from experimental stage into official production. Nearly a thousand newly updated BookletCharts are available free on the Web.

While BookletCharts are great for recreational use, they do not fulfill chart carriage requirements for regulated commercial vessels under Titles 33 and 46 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

Please pass these on to anyone who might benefit from the information.

1 comment:

  1. I love this organization, been a member for almost 20 years. Great people, have learned a whole lot from this organization. Love the boaters parties too!!

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