Patrick Maun said: > One great solution, albeit one that only works in popular areas, > is to buy those funny tourist "chart placemats". You know, those > laminated things you put your plates on. [snip] This is a variation of what I've done the past five years or so. I cut up my charts into chunks (usually 11 inches by 17 inches) that will fit under the bungies on deck, and laminate them with heavy duty plastic, leaving a good margin of overlapped plastic past the paper boundaries (2 cm is enough) and round the corners. These go directly on deck, and are always available for reference. They don't wash off in ordinary seas. In rough water, they do. If I anticipate very rough water, I roll up the laminate and stuff it under deck. That has never been a problem for me, inasmuch as pulling ranges and bearings off a chart in very rough water is impossible. If I need to remember a range or heading for a gnarly stretch, I write it down on the deck with grease pencil. Although this reduces the bulk of a trad. chart case and protects the charts well (my most-used one dies after a couple years of hard use, so I re-do it periodically), there are some disadvantages: 1. Don't get the "whole view" offered by the complete chart. This can be offset by taking along a photo-reduced laminate of the entrie chart. 2. Your charts are cut up, and that violates some deep maritime imperative. Sometimes I make color copies (NOAA charts are OK for this, CHS charts are not) and laminate the copies. 3. Sometimes the laminates (which are adhered to the deck by wetness) get washed overboard. One instance in 5 years for me. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jan 31 2002 - 08:33:43 PST
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