My Chart supplier says that the Canadians used to provide their charts for free, but in the last couple of years they have decided to copyright them and charge for them. You can now only buy them from a Canadian supplier (new ones) and pay the royalty....so that is why they are not included in any NOAA package. Brian Deans OCEANUS "Lee Kirwan" <m.kirwan@worldnet.att.net> wrote: >Bob Austin's advise on CD Charts is (sorry Bob) is incomplete. I called >Softcharts about their "loop" set after drilling down in their website for the >details of which charts were included. This is the same set offered on the >"Captain" as a "loop" set. There is one big flaw- THERE ARE NO CANADA CHARTS!. >I called the company to confirm what I was seeing and they confirmed it- no >Canada charts. If you plan to do the loop and are going into Canada (via >Montreal & Rideau & Trent Severn Waterways) you will need to get electronic >charts somewhere else other than the Softchart set. Below are the link to the >Softchart website that list the charts in the set. >http://www.softcharts.com/Text_Files/REG50VOLII.txt >http://www.softcharts.com/Text_Files/REG50VOLI.txt > >There is a way to get the latest NOAA set (all 2000+ charts) and a set of >Canadian charts. Go to ebay. There are two guys selling chart CDs and also a >Navigation program (Seaclear II). One has the complete NOAA set ($50+ >shipping), the other sells Inland waterways and Canada (prices are around >$25/area). Load them onto your laptop, plug in a USB GPS receiver (website of >company that sells them >-http://www.deluoelectronics.com/customer/home.php?cat=1) and start planning. >_______________________________________________ >http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/great-loop