[PUP] Ok, last time I'll ask this question: Paper Charts,

[Robby & Dolores]

Scott ask: "So for the last time, you voyagers out there, do you REALLY have 
a complete compliment of paper charts for your long distance voyages?"

We have most charts, although for the most part we use electronic 
navigation, but always have the appropriate chart available.  With a couple 
of exceptions I was able to  borrow, or buy used charts for most of the 
places we visited.  For example we were given charts for the entire west 
coast from a friend -- they were old, but the rocks and coast line were in 
the same place.  When we reached Florida, a visit to a used gear place 
"sailorman" in Ft Lauderdale, resulted in chart books from Florida to Maine. 
A few years later a request on "rec.boats.cruising" got us a loan (for 4 
years) of over 100 charts of the Western Isles in Scotland.

We had friends borrow our PNW to Alaska charts twice. We were able to sell 
our "Greenland" charts (which we never used) on the trawler list and our 
Central America Charts on "rec.boat.cruising".  My point here is there are 
alternatives, often you only need to ask.  Perhaps George should have a list 
"buy, sell or Borrow charts"!

We stored charts flat in the chart table that we were using during the 
season .  The rest were kept rolled in 4 inch sewer pipes with caps.  Worked 
pretty well.

Also keep in mind, you don't have to have every last chart.  We spent the 
weekend on a cruise with a couple who showed us their slides of a summer in 
Prince William Sound -- they had one chart for the whole sound which was a 
B&W reproduction they made in Hawaii.

Robby & Dolores
"Dolores E." San Francisco