
Electronic navigational chart
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Oct 1, 2026
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Geoffrey Chaucer and the Birth of Modern English
Oct 1 · 1 Mention
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9:36Josh LinskHOST
Those charts became essential for safe navigation during the Age of Empire.
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9:42Josh LinskHOST
Fast-forward to the twentieth century, and we see the first electronic navigational charts, or ENC, which replace paper entirely.
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9:51Josh LinskHOST
They're digital databases that pilots can download into an EasyDIS system aboard ships.
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9:59Josh LinskHOST
Talk about how technology compressed a whole atlas into a chip.
Bar Karate - the Sailing Podcast Ep376, Game Changing Navigation with Vortex Marine
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21:22Tony SparksGUEST
And when I'm navigating or we're doing some passage work, I can literally just glance between the two.
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21:29Tony SparksGUEST
That being said, obviously having the ENC charts, the electronic navigation charts on Scout and available is a huge bonus as well, because when we get in, and we did this a couple of months ago, we were possessing some small islands, literally just little white desert pinpricks in the ocean surrounded by reefs.
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21:51Tony SparksGUEST
There were very limited ways we could get from the vessel into the beach on the island.
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21:56Tony SparksGUEST
And we had a look in terms of using the satellite imagery to work out the path.
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23:42Brett PerryHOST
So if you look at us three, we're seeing this product for the first time.
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23:45Brett PerryHOST
For you guys, it's well and truly sort of embedded into what you're thinking about daily.
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23:49Brett PerryHOST
So the two things that really stood out for me when I first looked at it was, one, you touched on it a second ago, Jay, and also you, Tony, with having the ENC charts available.
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24:00Brett PerryHOST
in an overlay system.