Hi All
As all we do need, paper charts.
I try to get away with Marine Atlas book, but it goes up Gladstone.
What would be more sensible option than ridiculous prices from map shop.
Considering you have all gadgets plus Lucas book and the other books,
what scale of the maps you suggest?
1 : 500000 would still comply with requirement ?
Any suggestion. Thanks

Do we really need to carry all the charts? I have to admit I gave up buying them once I got as far north as the great sandy straits.....and the scale around the Great Barrier Reef is way to small to use to navigate the reef. I have ipad,cmap, and a garmin hand held plotter as back up.

My local chart is 1:150,000. Because of the local regulations you have to carry a paper version of your area. I have digital admiralty charts which I have enlarged and edited into several small charts I carry in a plastic folder. This resides in my chart locker and occasionally gets shuffled about. On my fishing vessel I had my local chart mounted in a picture frame mounted on a bulkhead, this satisfied the inspector at the annual survey. All my real navigation is carried out on a laptop with digital admiralty charts and Seaclear, check out my photos.

Charts of that area are readily available electronically or paper. For your needs a digital camera and a printer [local library] will get you pretty damn good charts. Think borrowed paper admiralty chart, army survey, local government charts on PDF or the ultimate, digital admiralty charts.

I use Seaclear with admiralty charts about 1:20,000 or less which load automatically as I proceed from one to the next.