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NOAA announces end of traditional paper nautical charts

October 22nd, 2013

NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey, which creates and maintains the nation’s suite of over a thousand nautical charts of U.S. coastal waters, today announced major changes ahead for mariners and others who use nautical charts. Starting April 13, 2014, the federal government will no longer print traditional lithographic (paper) nautical charts. Coast Survey will continue


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Light winds launch Hobie North Americans

October 21st, 2013

(October 21, 2013) – The Hobie 16 & Hobie 18 North Americans began on Monday in Galveston, TX. After a long weather delay, one race was completed in very light winds with large waves. Keeping the boat moving through the waves was the challenge of the day. Forty-three Hobie 16s and 12 Hobie 18s are



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