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.

                NDI has a one year agreement on sale of discs - will 

                Blue Water Charts & Guidebooks:  <ww.bluewaterweb.com>
                Landfall Navigation <www.landfallnavigation.com>
                Canadian NDI <www.digitalocean.ca>  or  1-800-563-0634
                Any Maptech Dealer

The information is a little old, but when we did the Loop in 2002, 03 and 04 we used the following for Canadian waters: At that time NDI had an exclusive for digital elecronic charts for Canada - I do not think that they are exclusive any more. NDI Digital Electronic Charts for Canadian Waters NDI has a one year agreement on sale of discs - will not support (give a new password) any disc before 2002. Trade-in of old discs for new ones available at 1/2 price at Maptech dealers. Blue Water Charts & Guidebooks: <ww.bluewaterweb.com> Landfall Navigation <www.landfallnavigation.com> Canadian NDI <www.digitalocean.ca> or 1-800-563-0634 Any Maptech Dealer John and Judy Gill Two J's V AGLCA Loopers Members of Orillia Power Squadron - CPS-ECP ======================================================== Lee Kirwan 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

I live in Florida and intend to take my boat up to Lake Pickwick and spend the summer cruising the Tennessee Rivers. I wonder when the best time to take the boat upstream from Mobile would be. My guess at this time is that late May would be good as it would not yet be too hot and hopefully the spring runoff will be mostly over. Any words of advice would be appreciated. Larry Larsen Endeavour TrawlerCat 38 - Sitara Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Thanks to all who provided advice. There were numerous on and off list responses. When searching the archives, I found a good thread "North on the Tombigbee" in the March 2005 archives. Anyone with plans simular to mine should check out this thread as well. Larry Larsen Endeavour TrawlerCat 38 Sitara --- l larsen <larry3285@yahoo.com> wrote: > I live in Florida and intend to take my boat up to > Lake Pickwick and spend the summer cruising the > Tennessee Rivers. I wonder when the best time to > take > the boat upstream from Mobile would be. My guess at > this time is that late May would be good as it would > not yet be too hot and hopefully the spring runoff > will be mostly over. Any words of advice would be > appreciated. > > > Larry Larsen > Endeavour TrawlerCat 38 - Sitara > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/great-loop Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com