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Charts
The NOAA Coast Pilot is not a chart. It is a book, currently in 9 volumes, last fully revised between 2023 and 2025. For everything a chart cannot tell you, it is still the first thing to read.
Shipping
On a strait that handles forty-three thousand vessels a year, the Turkish pilots board in any weather and steer ships that often do not speak their language.
Charts
Astrid Pereira's brother is an offshore yacht delivery skipper. Over four days off the south coast of Brittany in May, he taught a class of six how to use a hand-bearing compass as if the plotter had quit. None of it was new. All of it had been forgotten.