[PUP] T&T: Going Where No Sailor Has Gone Before

[Mike Maurice]

The descriptive materials that you would like to have to visit an area 
that you have never been to would be identical to that which one would 
have for an area that one knows well. This is not likely to happen.

For myself I would have tide and current tables, overhead photographs, 
coast pilots with the level of detail like that in the US ones. Charts 
made from surveys with detail to the level of every individual rock in 
water up to a 30 feet of depth. The charts for coastal areas would be at 
least 100,000 to one scale and harbors at least 20,000 to one and small 
harbors perhaps 5,000 to one. Of course this is all a dream and as 
likely to be available as ice water in hell.

I would have paper charts at the price of printing(press, ink and 
paper), perhaps $1 each. A chart table large enough to lay the chart out 
in all it's glory for infinite examination. There would be no gaps in 
the charts carried. In fact, none of this is available in any consistent 
manner. The situation is so chaotic world wide that the temptation is to 
give up and accept whatever one can get their hands on without being 
driven to despair.


More later.

Mike

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Capt. Mike Maurice
Beaverton Oregon(Near Portland)