Marine Charts Online, International Service
Thanks to farsighted licensing arrangements we are now able to show you:A new way of doing things that improves safety and saves you money
What's this ?... just click the button on the far right of the viewer itself:
Click the button above ^
This particular chart is a good example of the superbly detailed chart coverage available in UK waters. Make it go "Full Screen", drag and pan around, enlarge or reduce to get the view you want then grab a screenshot for printing. Learn how to do this, read on. Also see: Legal Stuff...Terms and Conditions
So how is this going to improve safety and save me money ?
So how is this going to improve safety and save me money ?
For skippers who have ever felt the excitement and trepidation at entering a new harbour, the uses of what we are about to show you will be patently obvious. Imagine having your own custom made A4 chartlet in your hand, selected by yourself at a scale of your choosing...Selected and printed from the very latest available chart. For close-up eyeball pilotage work (as opposed to navigation) you will have the best guide available. Even the facilities you will find ashore and contact numbers for marinas are included in the large-scale charts... again all at your disposal.
"I have been very taken with the online charts of UK waters available from a website called VisitMyharbour. It gives access to JPG versions of all current UK and Irish waters' charts for £25 per year. (Now memberships never expire ! You'll always have access in the future.) I have been building up a set of chartlets for the English Raid in July, with waypoints of important locations overlaid via PowerPoint. The one for Newtown river is below. I am printing them at A4 and then laminating them back to back. Several can be filed in a ring binder for quick access. I am really quite impressed. You can set the charts to display the Lat and Long of the cursor point, which makes it very easy to lift off waypoints" Julian Swindell...See Julian's Blog
No more making do with tiny chartlets from an expensive almanac, or an out of date pilot book.
What systems will this work on ?
PCs, Macs, Laptops and Android mobile devices using Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, and many other browsers with Flash capability Full screen charts for viewing and printing custom chartlets. See lists, samples & go FULL SCREEN. 
Other sample charts on this page will ONLY work in PCs and Macs... iPad and Google Earth charts are in the members area.
Ha ! I've got one of these ! No doubt very useful and reassuring at sea on passage. But with its 5 inch screen located down at the chart table... what use is it as you are making your grand entrance into a strange harbour? And when was the last time you updated the charts in it ?
These little gizmos have their place, but their place is not in a open cockpit while entering harbour. Lets face it wouldn't you rather have an A4 full colour paper pilotage chartlet in your hand ?
In short:
- Money saving features: Enables you to use smaller scale, cheaper "Leisure Charts" for area coverage and plotting approach positions (or cheap stand alone electronic plotters or phone), but swap to your custom made A4 pilotage chartlets as you enter strange harbours, for detailed eyeball pilotage... using the largest scale charts available.
- Safety features: Your custom A4 chartlets will always be printed from charts less than 1 year old, thus assuring their accuracy. At A4 size they are likely to be bigger than almanac or pilot book chartlets. Change of plan ? Just nip in the nearest Internet Cafe, log on, screenshot and print up new chartlets (or works onboard if you use a mobile dongle).
Have you ever wondered if your own paper charts are so out of date that they are in fact a work of fiction ? Are you navigating using a mouldering pile of uncorrected charts you acquired two boats ago ? Can you rely on them or do they really need replacing ? Do your old paper charts show current TSS schemes. As a skipper don't you owe it to your crewmates to check these matters out ? Compare your older paper charts to our latest offerings and decide if you will correct them, or replace maybe several with just one or two small scale charts. These can then be used in conjunction custom printed A4 harbour/river pilotage chartlets, giving you and your crew confidence in your passages and landfalls.
Even those with electronic vector chart plotters .. you may think you know your position to the nearest 10 m, but was this particular area last surveyed by lead line in 1850 ? Vector charts don't have a source diagram so how would you know ? Can your plotter (or phone?) produce decent printed A4 charts ? Can you see the screen in sunlight ? How long will your phone battery last, and might it just not get nicked in the pub tonight ? (yep, happened to me !) Once again, harbour pilotage is always best done with a manageable chartlet in your hand.
Yes, year after year you can use your membership to access up to date charts (no UK charts more than 12m old are displayed) of your chosen areas. You can make A4 chartlets, check and correct you paper charts, passage plan using Geo-Referenced versions, etc. all on an ongoing basis. This makes VisitMyHarbour membership an almost essential tool for boat owners and charterers. Add to that VMH members get HEFTY DISCOUNTS on all the electronic "For Nav" chart products we make too.
Gain instant online access to 1667 zoomify charts/plans that will fill your whole screen with chart. Make a one off payment of £25 on Barclaycards own secure server now, NO MORE to pay....EVER.
Now if what you've seen already doesn't have you reaching for your credit card... how about THIS ?
NEW.. Now for full members we are streaming all UK/Ireland charts in a form that drape themselves over Google Earth imagery... yes our own VisiCharts, but ONLINE.
- Choose and view your selected charts in conjunction with satellite imagery, with variable transparency. You need Google Earth already installed (Tip..find that transparency slider)
- Load up multiple charts... they meld themselves together ..by magic !
- Prepare geo-reffed waypoints and routes using built in GE tools
- Tilt and rotate the view for 3D effects (view above is of Whitehaven Harbour)
Important note: This is an experimental service, still in it's second beta stage, we reserve the rights to change, modify or withdraw this at any time. Only UK and Ireland charts in GE at present, these are strictly NOT FOR NAVIGATION.
Permanent Membership:
This does not expire and there's no more to pay. How long is permanent ? As long as this site is running, and the UKHO continue to license us (been running 3 years now and growing all the time). We were charging £25 a YEAR, now it's simply a one off payment. There will be no partial refunds in the future, and we cannot be held responsible for events outside of our control.
We are a bona-fide business, and have acheived the Trading Standards buy with confidence logo. We have many 100's of satisfied members, not only in the UK but ranging from Brazil to Singapore.
Not just 100% chart coverage of the UK and Ireland, now selected international areas in "Full Screen" zoomify format.
For the international blue water voyager, the magnificent and growing chart collection on display offers a unique opportunity to study and plan your next voyage. Plan landfalls, prepare alternative plans, work out what charts you really DO need to buy, and which you can live without. For a transatlantic circuit, or a trip to the Med via the sea route, all the charts you need are here online. Many are detailed enough to use as harbour plans... anchorages in the Cape Verdes, West Indian landfalls, the Spanish Rias, etc.
This definitive information is all available online for the first time ever, here and now. UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Brazil, the West Indies, we have 1667 charts and plans for you to study.
"VisitMyHarbour's new UK and international "full screen" chart packages are a unique and one off service, available only to paid members. This is the only place you will be able to get this level of chart access online. For little more than the cost of just one paper chart, members get ongoing and continuing access to 1667+ charts/plans, PLUS a growing and interesting range of free downloads are coming online now"
Who are we ?
VisitMyHarbour is an award-winning website, that has been providing free UK pilotage information and charts to small craft mariners for 3 years now. VisitMyHarbour has gone from strength to strength, and you will find us well indexed on Google in relation to the words Pilotage or Charts. We currently attract between 1100 and 1600 unique visitors a day. VMH has many 100's of members in locations as far apart as Singapore and Brazil, and interests ranging from hot air balooning to navigating in the Fastnet. VisitMyHarbour is an approved Trading Standards Scheme member. Our service is second to none, see some recent comments:
"..., you are wonderful. This kind of service is something I have not met for years in the yachting world where everybody appears to have been born with all nautical knowledge possible and look down upon people who are still at their first steps - elderly though they may be. But if one starts sailing at 55, one is bound to feel apprehensive and feeble at many nautical issues. One wants to look ahead as far is possible in order to be able to tackle only those difficulties that are not to be foreseen whatsoever.
Again, thank you"
"Wow, That's what I call a fast service! Thanks very much,..."
"Thanks very much for your very prompt and considered reply.....it's that 'John Lewis' standard of customer service again that you're becoming known for."
"...– bless you – especially for your honesty – so many people these days attempt to flannel their way out of things it is refreshing to get an “Oops, sorry” reply. And of course – me being me I assumed that I was being dense!!"
Our all-important chart data is licensed directly and updated regularly. VisitMyHarbour is UK based at: Kenneth Court, Union Rd, Ryde on the Isle of Wight, our customer service number is 01983 567866, with lines manned from 9 AM to 6 PM weekdays.
"..., you are wonderful. This kind of service is something I have not met for years in the yachting world where everybody appears to have been born with all nautical knowledge possible and look down upon people who are still at their first steps - elderly though they may be. But if one starts sailing at 55, one is bound to feel apprehensive and feeble at many nautical issues. One wants to look ahead as far is possible in order to be able to tackle only those difficulties that are not to be foreseen whatsoever.
Again, thank you"
"Wow, That's what I call a fast service! Thanks very much,..."
"Thanks very much for your very prompt and considered reply.....it's that 'John Lewis' standard of customer service again that you're becoming known for."
"...– bless you – especially for your honesty – so many people these days attempt to flannel their way out of things it is refreshing to get an “Oops, sorry” reply. And of course – me being me I assumed that I was being dense!!"
Our all-important chart data is licensed directly and updated regularly. VisitMyHarbour is UK based at: Kenneth Court, Union Rd, Ryde on the Isle of Wight, our customer service number is 01983 567866, with lines manned from 9 AM to 6 PM weekdays.
VisitMyHarbour run a tight ship with low overheads and do not rely on taking advertising. We are here to stay, and the site is run by people with over 40,000 miles hands on seagoing experience, and 25 years of hard won hands on business experience. Since launching in July 2009 (after 18m preparation) this on-line pilotage guide has attracted favourable comments for it's usefulness to all leisure harbour users:
“VisitMyHarbour.com: An absolute treasure trove of charts and port descriptions for anyone navigating around the coast of the UK” Steve Harris. Maritime insurance expert, 20 years as a marine underwriter at Lloyd's.
"Very informative, the need to knows and the nice to knows. Im planning on kicking off next season with a trip down from Lowestoft. These pages will be at the center of my planning." J.P
"Hi there...this is great information, but I have only just discovered you - are you new? When did you start? Did you have charts on the site last year? It is an excellent quick reference." MJ
And after a preview of the chart viewing system:
“Finally wearing my RNLI Sea Safety Hat I would suggest that your software and chart facility provides an excellent planning facility , quality passage plans are an important ingredient to Sea Safety” David Humphrey, Hon. Sec Burnham-on-Sea Motor Boat and Sailing Club
Users of the chart viewing system have kindly said:
"This online resource saves you money as you can see the navigation details online while planning your cruise and maybe just end up purchasing a few charts rather than the many it would take to plan a whole cruise....You can view the charts online and zoom in and out and pan around the chart to see what the destination looks like. All features of the charts are seen". www.myboatsgear.com "Well done and many thanks for making this service available at a sensible price. It's long overdue and extremely welcome!" Mr B.P.
"...I must say absolutely superb presentation. The best anti-aliasing I have ever seen. Prefer the full screen viewer." Mr S.M
"Really enjoying the charts, and dreaming. Thanks." Mr C.
"I have been very taken with the online charts of UK waters available from a website called VisitMyharbour..." Julian Swindell...See Julian's Blog
The Benefits of joining up as a member.
For yachtsmen, motorboaters, sea anglers, divers and trailer sailers, the advantages of VisitMyHarbour membership are as follows:
- Compare the latest online charts with your older/out of date/small-scale/leisure charts to see if they need replacing or correcting. All UK charts are also available in Google Earth if you have that installed.
- Use the online charts to plan your passages and decide what paper/electronic charts you really need to buy. Bluewater sailors, plan your trip to the Med, investigate the Spanish Rias, Atlantic Islands...The Canaries, The Azores, Maderia, Cape Verdes Plan your trans Atlantic escapade...we cover much of the West Indies, Bahamas, Brazil etc. Closer to home...The Netherlands and Belgian coverage, all available.
- Investigate possible new harbours and cruising/fishing/diving grounds using the best detail currently available. Do your planning anywhere with an Internet connection, home, work, or even onboard with a mobile dongle and signal.
- Use custom-made screenshots to prepare your own disposable pilotage chartlets. The Zoomify "full-screen viewer" is virtually designed for this purpose. Superb anti-aliasing allows you to size your screen view for maximum advantage.
- Trailer Sailer's...use the online charts to plan your forays...locate slipways and other useful services direct from the charts.
- Best of all, never have to buy another pilot book just to get the charts. You have access to the very best..the source of information. Print a custom chartlet in A4 size, slip it in with your older pilot books.
- Members are not just numbers, but highly valued customers, we are comitted to providing a personal service, we sort out technical problems on the phone, answer emails promptly, and will even geo-reference your favouritre UK charts on request (if they are not already geo-reffed). Our background is face to face retailing.
- More and more of our work is going behind the paywall and available to members only, once you've paid your one off subscription of £25 these are the sort of thing you will be able to download at no further cost:
How about downloadable versions of our own pilotage coverage ? Our area and harbour coverage intergrated into area sized PDFs of around 60 to 100 A4 pages each, c/w embedded photos and live working links to other resources should you be online. Easy to print and use offline. Plus big ship sailing directions, in PDF format. "For Navigation" downloads of US and Brazilian charts embedded in a working chart plotter. Available to members only.
No one has ever done this before, see the stunning detail available using the special full-screen viewer below:
Launch "FULL SCREEN" press the button at the right hand side of the viewer. Impressive ?
"NOT FOR NAVIGATION"
Have a look at the PDF guide: Download PDF beginners guide or better still...
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED download this NOW and try: Download free screen GRAB software
makes absolute childs-play of screen grabbing and printing. Once this is set up properly, just ONE CLICK will send your chosen full screen A4 chartlet straight to your printer (if reqd). Try it out for real on the sample chart above, or the others available below.
What is a "screenshot", how can I make use of it ?
A screenshot is simply a picture of what's on your computer screen at that moment. The screen grab software mentioned above, makes childs play of it. You will be using screenshots a lot once you have the chart package, to custom make your own A4 colour chartlets.
Download screenshot software free, for use with the zoomify charts: Click Here
You size and drag the chart image in the "Full Screen Viewer", until the area you want is on screen. You then screenshot it, and save the resulting image on your computer for future use or printing. You can keep your own custom made folio of A4 charts for offline use. A decent colour printer will make a good copy of your screenshot, and you can even get them laminated for cockpit use.
The main advantage of the VisitMyHarbour full screen viewer, is that you can fill an A4 sized sheet nicely with just the chart image...no clutter, toolbars, etc. Click the image below to download 3 sample screenshots, in a zipped folder. You can then examine them at your lesiure, and maybe try printing.
Download 3 sample screenshots, these are NOT FOR NAVIGATION
Can I see some others ? Yes certainly !
See the listings of members zoomify charts sorted by 15 areas and scale. View a sample "Full Screen" chart from each area:
UK and International Charts, samples and lists
OR
See the listings of members zoomify charts sorted by 15 areas and scale. View a sample "Full Screen" chart from each area:
UK and International Charts, samples and lists
OR
Click for more Sample Full Screen Charts TIP: Once you are on this NEW PAGE use you browser's "Refresh" button to sample a further selection of "Full Screen" charts, you can see about 10 more, International and UK.
"View all the charts in our "Full Screen" drag and pan viewer above, get rid of all the clutter on your screen and let the charts speak for themselves, the detail is stunning, the accuracy is renowned. These zoomify charts are based on the same ones used by 70% of the world's shipping, the authoritative source of information for UK and Irish waters and you can have all these up-to-date charts at your fingertips right now"
Want to talk to a real person and ask questions ? Call 01983 567866 office hours.
1. Create a login account (needed to access your charts) Your details are safe with us, we never have any financial information about you, nor do we pass your details to anyone else, nor do WE send you emails unless you specifically permit us to, (and even then only rarely). Privacy Policy
2. After creating your login account you will be invited to upgrade to PAID membership for £25, click this and you will be transfered to Barclaycard's own secure server. Their form will be pre-populated with the details you have just given us. Now all you need to do is enter your card details, hit the pay button and that's it. Only Barclaycard have your card details. You will receive a confirmation email direct from them. Once you've paid, you can simply login anytime using the details you've given us, and you have full access from then on..no more to pay EVER.
If you have any enquiries or questions simply phone customer services. Likewise if you have any problems accessing your charts or are unhappy in any way in with your purchase simply call:
Visit My Harbour customer services 01983 567866 (office hours)
Download PDF user guide Essential hints and tips for purchasers
Browse the UK and International chart lists, all available to members
Legal Stuff...Terms and Conditions Important information
Find out more about Standard Admiralty Charts
General:
Purposes:
Copyright: VisitMyHarbour are licensed to display these charts online.
These charts are an additional enhancement to visitmyharbour, and will not affect the rest of the site in any way. We believe displaying these charts will give us the most comprehensive coverage of UK waters available online, and the International charts will enable "Blue Water" sailors to plan effectively.
Summary:
Join NOW and have access to the best up-to-date charts for years to come.
P.S.
When you join up with VisitMyHarbour.com, you are not enriching the coffers of some moneygrubbing PLC. You're not paying £7.50+ for some smeared 2 page black and white photocopy from an archived magazine. You are able to examine in the finest detail over £12,810's worth of up-to-date charts.
When you pay £25 for life membership, you are helping us continue our research and FREE pilotage coverage, eg: another 40-60 harbours going on-site over this winter.
You're not accessing illegal, ripped off, hacked and cracked C-Map charts. Nor are you dealing with a shark of a broker in a smart blazer, and half a dozen dodgy companies he's laundering your hard earned money through. You are dealing with genuine hands on boating enthuiasts, who work hard and love the sea.
Paid up member or not, we endeavour to answer all your enquiries and help in any way we can. We truly do believe in the brotherhood of the sea, and aim to work in a spirit of co-operation. We are in the ongoing process of gathering and building up the best and most up to date pilotage information available for UK waters, and with your support we'll accomplish it.
We are also developing new ideas for delivering navigation packages direct to your laptop. Please support our work by joining up and using our licenced charts and checking out our sponsors (or indeed becoming a sponsor). All contributions to this site are welcomed, please submit your material.
It may also be fashionable to knock the UKHO in some circles, grumbling about taxpayers money etc. The fact is they provide the source information for all things nautical around our coasts, licence their copyright data, and stand on their own feet as a trading fund without taxpayers money. Long may it remain that way.
Best Regards,
Mackenzie, Bryant and Thomson
PPS: Why have we changed our membership model to "Permanent" from £25 per year ? Because we want to provide maximum value to all our members, and can afford to do so. Our licensing arrangements include a hefty minimum payment and we're nowhere near using that minimum in terms of usage. Can't get fairer than that !
The one off cost of ongoing membership which includes access to this magnificent collection is £25.
One standard official chart costs £21.35. You have unlimited* access to a massive collection for £25, at full-size and resolution, with every detail perfectly formed. It's a no-brainer... this is not some home-made e-book or course promising you lots and delivering little. This is a unique and valuable collection, (£12,810 would buy the paper charts). VisitMyHarbour online charts are based on the same charts trusted by professional mariners worldwide... They are now displayed online as never seen before by the leisure market. We believe we now have more charts online than the National Maritime Museum!Want to talk to a real person and ask questions ? Call 01983 567866 office hours.
How does it work ? From any connected computer you can login and access your charts from now onwards. The service works wherever you have a reliable Internet connection, and YES it works with mobile dongles ! Note this service is for individual members only, useage and access points are monitored. This is NOT for clubs or businesses, just individuals. No recurring fees - EVER
Please note this is an online chart VIEWING service, it's not a chartplotting navigation system, you can't connect GPS input to it, plot AIS on it etc. It's specially designed for sizing and printing screenshots (custom chartlets), which most chartplotters are not very good at.
Please note this is an online chart VIEWING service, it's not a chartplotting navigation system, you can't connect GPS input to it, plot AIS on it etc. It's specially designed for sizing and printing screenshots (custom chartlets), which most chartplotters are not very good at.
Buy with confidence. Simple 2 stage process for instant chart access:
1. Create a login account (needed to access your charts) Your details are safe with us, we never have any financial information about you, nor do we pass your details to anyone else, nor do WE send you emails unless you specifically permit us to, (and even then only rarely). Privacy Policy
2. After creating your login account you will be invited to upgrade to PAID membership for £25, click this and you will be transfered to Barclaycard's own secure server. Their form will be pre-populated with the details you have just given us. Now all you need to do is enter your card details, hit the pay button and that's it. Only Barclaycard have your card details. You will receive a confirmation email direct from them. Once you've paid, you can simply login anytime using the details you've given us, and you have full access from then on..no more to pay EVER.
Join up and BUY NOW securely online: click here
Ongoing access: VisitMyHarbour will bring you continued ongoing chart access year after year but can't be held responsible for circumstances outside of our control, such as technical problems with delivery, OR if the UKHO should change their policy about web licenses.
Rather speak to a real person ? Call Visit My Harbour customer services (office hours): 01983 567866.
By Post: Send a crossed cheque or postal order for £25 made payable to "Visit My Harbour" and post to: Visit My Harbour, Office At 5 Kenneth Court, Union Road, RYDE, Isle of Wight, PO33 2ER. Include your name, postal address and e-mail address (so we can send you your login details). Callers by appointment only.
You get in addition to all the usual free pilotage information and chartlets on the website: One years full access to 1667 charts/plans in a full-screen viewer, See full lists:
If you have any enquiries or questions simply phone customer services. Likewise if you have any problems accessing your charts or are unhappy in any way in with your purchase simply call:
Visit My Harbour customer services 01983 567866 (office hours)
Resources and links:
Download PDF beginners guide Learn how to screenshot and print
Download PDF user guide Essential hints and tips for purchasers
Browse the UK and International chart lists, all available to members
Legal Stuff...Terms and Conditions Important information
Find out more about Standard Admiralty Charts
General:
We will be displaying all the UK/Irish charts that are available. There are however a couple of exceptions where copyright issues prevent us from displaying the whole chart. A 12 month rolling replacement scheme will ensure UK charts are always up to date, urgent replacements will be made quarterly. International charts: Our growing collection is going online as fast as possible. At 17 Sept 2010 it stands at 1667 charts/plans online, with input from Spain, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands and Brazil amongst others.
* fair use policy of 1200 charts a year.
Permanent Membership:
This does not expire and there's no more to pay. You could be checking and printing chartlets for years to come for your one off payment. How long is permanent ? As long as this site is running, and the UKHO continue to license us (been running 2 years now and growing all the time). We were charging £25 a YEAR, now it's simply a one off payment. There will be no partial refunds in the future, and we cannot be held responsible for events outside of our control.
We are a bona-fide business, and have acheived the Trading Standards buy with confidence logo. We have many 100's of satisfied members, not only in the UK but ranging from Brazil to Singapore.
* fair use policy of 1200 charts a year.
Permanent Membership:
This does not expire and there's no more to pay. You could be checking and printing chartlets for years to come for your one off payment. How long is permanent ? As long as this site is running, and the UKHO continue to license us (been running 2 years now and growing all the time). We were charging £25 a YEAR, now it's simply a one off payment. There will be no partial refunds in the future, and we cannot be held responsible for events outside of our control.
We are a bona-fide business, and have acheived the Trading Standards buy with confidence logo. We have many 100's of satisfied members, not only in the UK but ranging from Brazil to Singapore.
Purposes:
These charts are "Not for Navigation" purposes. (In common with charts and plans in pilot books and Almanacs) This means you mustn't try and navigate (plot positions) using bits of chart you have printed off.
Copyright: VisitMyHarbour are licensed to display these charts online.
Most of the charts displayed on this site are British Crown Copyright 2012, and are displayed for your own personal use. You are strictly forbidden to use any of these images in your own websites, distribute copies of them, or e-mail copies of them to anyone. Links Policy
These charts are an additional enhancement to visitmyharbour, and will not affect the rest of the site in any way. We believe displaying these charts will give us the most comprehensive coverage of UK waters available online, and the International charts will enable "Blue Water" sailors to plan effectively.
- Unique Service, you will not find this full screen service anywhere else.
- Price, £25 for ongoing access represents exceptional value, no more to pay.
- UK/Irish Charts are always updated, there is nothing more than one-year-old online. International charts may not need such regular replacement, being mainly smaller scale and based on older surveys in general.
- Uses include, custom printed charts for eyeball pilotage, blue water and local passage planning, updating paper charts, locating new cruising, fishing, diving or trailer sailing grounds.
- Members have unlimited* access 24/7 from any online computer.
- Derived from the definitive source of hydrographic information for the UK and Ireland. Browse some of the renowned international coverage. View charts from DHN-Brazil.
- No fuss instant access available now: You could be studying these charts within five minutes.
- Valued members have access to a growing and useful selection of MB intensive downloads.
Join NOW and have access to the best up-to-date charts for years to come.
P.S.
When you join up with VisitMyHarbour.com, you are not enriching the coffers of some moneygrubbing PLC. You're not paying £7.50+ for some smeared 2 page black and white photocopy from an archived magazine. You are able to examine in the finest detail over £12,810's worth of up-to-date charts.
When you pay £25 for life membership, you are helping us continue our research and FREE pilotage coverage, eg: another 40-60 harbours going on-site over this winter.
You're not accessing illegal, ripped off, hacked and cracked C-Map charts. Nor are you dealing with a shark of a broker in a smart blazer, and half a dozen dodgy companies he's laundering your hard earned money through. You are dealing with genuine hands on boating enthuiasts, who work hard and love the sea.
Paid up member or not, we endeavour to answer all your enquiries and help in any way we can. We truly do believe in the brotherhood of the sea, and aim to work in a spirit of co-operation. We are in the ongoing process of gathering and building up the best and most up to date pilotage information available for UK waters, and with your support we'll accomplish it.
We are also developing new ideas for delivering navigation packages direct to your laptop. Please support our work by joining up and using our licenced charts and checking out our sponsors (or indeed becoming a sponsor). All contributions to this site are welcomed, please submit your material.
It may also be fashionable to knock the UKHO in some circles, grumbling about taxpayers money etc. The fact is they provide the source information for all things nautical around our coasts, licence their copyright data, and stand on their own feet as a trading fund without taxpayers money. Long may it remain that way.
Best Regards,
Mackenzie, Bryant and Thomson
PPS: Why have we changed our membership model to "Permanent" from £25 per year ? Because we want to provide maximum value to all our members, and can afford to do so. Our licensing arrangements include a hefty minimum payment and we're nowhere near using that minimum in terms of usage. Can't get fairer than that !
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19/02/2010
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