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
Correct me if I'm wrong, 
but I imagine that when they say you have to carry paper charts I'm pretty sure they mean the OFFICIAL nautical chart.
Otherwise your old primary school atlas would be ok, or the shell road map providing you don't venture to far off shore.
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.
No, you probably don't need all the charts but I believe the regs require it.
Plus hard copy back up is nice for when the satellites go down or the yanks decide to switch selective availability back on and all of a sudden you are 500 to 1000 metres from where the GPS says you are.
Mind you having the charts is of no use at all if you can't navigate, Even dead reckoning is better than guess work.
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.
