USCG approved electronic charts

This does not affect "all of us". Only those few, if any, on this site that run a boat required to carry charts.
"The new guidance applies to vessels subject to U.S. chart, or map, and publication carriage requirements codified in Titles 33 and 46 CFR"
 
Hope they mimic this in Australia, having to purchase Maps for the run from Adelaide to Sydney, I did for compliance only.....but honestly, with a Simrad 12", running C=Map, 2 iPads and 2 iPhones running full Navionics...
Why??? $500 for paper charts, I managed to find 3 larger ones, with small detail for $210.


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Canada still requires paper charts. Does anyone know if this is one of those laws that is on the books but never enforced, or do they actually check boats to see if they have the paper charts?
 
Again, most, if not all, CSR readers are excluded from the Canadian requirements...

from SOR 95/149:

  • (2) The master and owner of a ship of less than 100 tons are not required to have on board the charts, documents and publications referred to in subsection (1) if the person in charge of navigation has sufficient knowledge of the following information, such that safe and efficient navigation in the area where the ship is to be navigated is not compromised:
    • (a) the location and character of charted
      • (i) shipping routes,
      • (ii) lights, buoys and marks, and
      • (iii) navigational hazards; and
    • (b) the prevailing navigational conditions, taking into account such factors as tides, currents, ice and weather patterns.
 
Sea Gull said:
This does not affect "all of us". Only those few, if any, on this site that run a boat required to carry charts.
"The new guidance applies to vessels subject to U.S. chart, or map, and publication carriage requirements codified in Titles 33 and 46 CFR"
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It appears Title 33 adopted the latest SOLAS which has adopted raster cartography.
Title 33 is for navigation and navigable waters in the US
Title 46 is for Shipping
Nothing much changed for the recreational boater unless you are greater that 150 T, or other than a Class A, B, C, or D vessel.
This change doesn't usurp the basic tenant of safe vessel operation and the requirement of the captain of a vessel to have situational knowledge.

Call me old school but I'll always carry a set of paper charts when out of my area of familiarity even though I have the latest tech. in electronic navigation. An electrical issue, lightning strike; who knows what will take out your electronics during the worst of situations....
 
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Most people don't know how to navigate using paper charts. Sure, they tell me where the inlet is and what to avoid but do they know exactly where they are on the map? If you don't have a sextant on board, it is going to be very difficult if not impossible for any recreational boater to tell me their location. I carry an IPAD, IPHONE for backup along with some paper charts along with my 7212. Paper charts will be useful when transiting an unknown inlet or area if your electronics went out. But again, you have to know where on the chart you are.
 
Makes perfect sense to me. Most of the airplanes flying over your boats domestically use 100% electronic means.
 
Paper charts are nice to have, but I think it's more of a nostalgic thing.

I only use electronic charts, but I have several devices in case ones fails.

If satellites are going off line, and I no longer get a fix, I figure there are bigger things to worry about.

And as noted, unless you can use a sextant, or you are close to land or other features to get a fix, and have dead reckoning skills, paper charts are no going to help with real time situations.
 
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