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CHART BOOK: Maryland Cruising Guide
The Maryland Cruising Guide is a book of charts of Maryland waters. It's helpful when sailing on Flying Scots and a necessity when sailing on cruising boats. Many NIHSA members own one. Purchasing it is a wise investment.
Order a Maryland Cruising Guide by phone. Call the publisher, Williams & Heintz Map Corporation, in Capitol Heights, MD, at 301-336-1144. It's a local call from Bethesda, Silver Spring, and Rockville. (Long distance, call: 1-800-338-6228.) Last time we checked, the cost was $33 + tax. No shipping charge. It will be shipped via UPS and will arrive in a few days. Visa, Master Charge, and personal checks are accepted.
Order it from the publisher on the web.
New from NOAA for evaluation:
BookletChart is a form of nautical chart that has been reduced in scale and divided into a series of pages for convenience, but retains all the information of a full-scale nautical chart.
Free Electronic Navigational Charts (a message from NIHSA member, Mario Borgnia)...
- Electronic Navigational Charts are provided by NOAA, free of charge. ENC's can be downloaded for the coastal U.S. and Great Lakes. NOAA also provides all charts, at once, as a compressed 170 MB file.
- The charts are in S-57 format. Software is required to view the charts. NOAA lists free and non-free viewers. Mario suggests you try the freeware viewers.
For the above and more, explore NOAA's Charting & Navigation web page.
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