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		|  06-15-2008, 05:49 PM | #1 |  
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				paper charts ???
			 
 Hello everyone, I didn't visit this part of the board very often but figured this was a good place to seek help.     
 I was visiting my father today for Fathers Day and noticed a new painting he had just done.    He then told me how he did it on a paper nautical chart.    Most are waterproof now as far as I know.   Does anyone know how I can find some more of the older paper charts?  Weren't they in book form?  (Been a long time since I used charts, back in the Loran days)
 
 Here's a copy of the pic he painted. I am looking for Cape Cod, the Islands and Boston Harbor.
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		|  06-15-2008, 06:29 PM | #2 |  
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				 | Mac, let me look around... ask my brother too. Sure we have some old updated ones, but most will need some work, as they most likely have been folded for years. Will take a week to locate most likely,
 That is awesome piece by your dad!
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		|  06-15-2008, 06:52 PM | #3 |  
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				 | That's awesome, well done to your dad. I can't remember who sketches the stripers on here, but that would look great on a chart.  
 you can get paper charts at westmarine/boat us, I think they go for $17 a piece.
 
 freebee alert: If you go to a coast guard station, they may have outdated charts that theyll give up for $0.
 
 again great work by your dad.
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		|  06-15-2008, 06:52 PM | #4 |  
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				 | Hi Mac    
Great work by your dad.
 
I'll keep an eye out for charts... |  
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		|  06-15-2008, 07:29 PM | #5 |  
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				 | Dad has a lot of talent Dave. Hope all is well with you and your family. I would think West Marine has the charts you want in a big wooden drawer set up at the store like said above.  I am pretty sure they are paper. |  
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		|  06-15-2008, 07:38 PM | #6 |  
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				 | RedTop may have some left. |  
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		|  06-15-2008, 11:05 PM | #7 |  
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				 | Hey MAC 
 i can find some for ya // save the money ><><><
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		|  06-15-2008, 11:46 PM | #8 |  
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				 | that's talent |  
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		|  06-16-2008, 04:17 PM | #9 |  
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				 | West marine carries them as do a number of chart dealers on the internet. |  
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		|  06-16-2008, 06:11 PM | #10 |  
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				 | Thats awesome!!    |  
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		|  06-16-2008, 07:14 PM | #11 |  
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				 | Wow!!! your dad has talent. I can only do stick people and not very good at that. |  
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		|  06-16-2008, 07:47 PM | #12 |  
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				 | Dave, I might have some old Chart Kits in the basement, I can take a look for ya? |  
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		|  06-16-2008, 07:49 PM | #13 |  
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					Originally Posted by ProfessorM  Dad has a lot of talent Dave. Hope all is well with you and your family. I would think West Marine has the charts you want in a big wooden drawer set up at the store like said above.  I am pretty sure they are paper. |  Yep, they're still on paper, also Armchair Sailor in Newport, RI. (on Thames, like a block before Team One... the old SWE building)
 
ps: to hell with west ripoff marine, support a small bookstore/chart store!
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		|  06-17-2008, 02:43 PM | #14 |  
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				 | http://www.mass.gov/mgis/noaacharts.htm
you can download them as tiffs here and plot them onto whatever size and type paper you want. just get the file name from the table at the bottom of the page and download the tif by clicking on the link at the top. 
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		|  06-17-2008, 04:09 PM | #15 |  
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					Originally Posted by Clogston29  http://www.mass.gov/mgis/noaacharts.htm
you can download them as tiffs here and plot them onto whatever size and type paper you want. just get the file name from the table at the bottom of the page and download the tif by clicking on the link at the top. |      tiffs......I thought that was what my wife had when she got mad at me....
 
Thanks for the compliments and help everyone.   I'll try a few of the suggestions.  Maybe I could download them onto one of those stick things and have Staples or someone print them???
 
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		|  06-17-2008, 04:22 PM | #16 |  
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					Originally Posted by MAC  Thanks for the compliments and help everyone.   I'll try a few of the suggestions.  Maybe I could download them onto one of those stick things and have Staples or someone print them??? |  Staples might be able to, kinkos more likely. |  
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		|  06-17-2008, 08:29 PM | #17 |  
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				 | There is a gentleman who is at the Harwich Cranberry Fest each year that sells old nautical charts and will paint whatever you want onto them, fish, lighthouses, boats, you name it. My wife surprised me with one for my B Day a few years ago. She paid a good dollar for it too, maybe your Dad could pay for some bait that way?! |  
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		|  06-19-2008, 02:45 AM | #18 |  
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				 | wow,,,  very nice,,,, |  
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		|  06-19-2008, 05:48 AM | #19 |  
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				 | nice work!...the seed does'nt fall far from the tree. |  
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		|  06-19-2008, 07:17 AM | #20 |  
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				 | Hey Dave, your dad is very good.  Hope you are well |  
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