Electronic Chart DVDs Now Include Complete Library of Nautical Publications

2008 Edition Of Managing The Waterway: Electronic Charts Updates Over 3000 NOAA And U.S. Army Corps Electronic Charts
And Adds
179 Government Publications, Reference Texts, And Nautical Calculators

Managing the Waterway cruising guide authors, Mark and Diana Doyle, have released their third annual update of electronic raster and vector charts for marine navigation. And this year, the couple have added a bonus: just under $3000 and over one gigabyte of nautical reference material in searchable Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

“This is a convenience product,” states Doyle. “Although boaters can find and download many of these digital assets themselves, we think they’d rather be boating.”

The process begins by downloading, updating, and cataloging NOAA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers raster and vector electronic chart libraries. The charts are organized into popular cruising geographies and cataloged for easy loading and unloading in popular e-charting applications such as Nobeltec, Maptech, Raytech, Fugawi, The Capn, and MaxSea. In fact, the standard BSB (raster) and S-57 (vector) charts provided by NOAA and the U.S. Army Corps work in all laptop-based navigation packages.

In the past, several government publications were also included on the 2-DVD set. “People kept telling us how convenient it was to have Coast Pilots and Light Lists on DVD...but they wanted more,” continues Doyle. “So we added publicly-available PDFs of the resources boaters are most likely to need.”

These Government Publications, Reference Texts, And Nautical Calculators Include:

American Practical Navigator (Bowditch)

NGA List of Lights

Atlas of Pilot Charts North Atlantic Pub. 106

NOAA Coast Pilots

Canadian Coast Guard Radio Aids to Navigation

NOAA Hurricane Basics

Chart No. 1

NWS Observing Handbook No. 1

Distances Between Ports Pub. 151

Radio Navigation Aids Pub. 117

Distances Between U.S. Ports

Sailing Directions (Enroute)

Federal Meteorological Handbook No. 1

Sailing Directions (Planning Guides)

International Code of Signals Pub. 102

Sight Reduction Tables Pub. 229

Marine Weather Service Charts

State Chart Catalogs

Mariner’s Guide for Hurricane Awareness

USCG Light Lists

MF and HF Channels

U.S. VHF Channels

Nautical Calculators

World Port Index Pub. 150

Nautical Chart User’s Manual

Worldwide Marine Radiofacsimile Broadcast Schedules

Navigation Rules (International & Inland)

The 2-DVD set also contains free and trial software applications for both the PC and Macintosh, including SeaClear II, MacENC, Fugawi Marine ENC, NavSim BoatCruiser, and TIKI Navigator.

Doyle summarizes, “These are evolving times for laptops aboard, e-charting, and the warehousing of enormous amounts of reference information. At $39.95, we’re trying to make it easy and affordable. Some boaters already own navigation software and only need updated charts and reference materials. Others are newbies who want free or trial software and charts to test the e-charting waters. In either case, they’re good to go.”

To receive a 10% discount, Alberg 37 IOA members should include the voucher code
17ALBERG7022128
when ordering the DVD set!!

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