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How do you all keep your charts? How old a chart would you consider
using when visiting a relatively unfmiliar... or completely
unfamiliar... area?


Get with the program Injun Ear! Any competent sailor who stores charts stores them flat.
Any real voyaging or cruising sailboat has a chart locker where you can store about a foot deep
of charts flat and unfolded. Rolling them up is stupid. It makes them about impossible to use.
Actually, paper charts are stupid anymore. You can get free electronic charts from the WEB and
they are the most up to datest you can get at the time. If you really demand paper charts then print
them on your printer from the e-chart.

Cheers,
Ellen