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The Case for Paper Charts

Carts are about to change in a big way, and it’s not necessarily good for boaters.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has put in motion a five-year plan to end the production of paper nautical charts. For years, NOAA has been maintaining two parallel sets of charts—paper and digital—at great expense. As digital charts

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