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bullet Product Overview
bullet GPS Ready
bullet Multiple Scales
bullet Pre-plotted Courses
bullet Aerial Photos
bullet Save Hundreds of Dollars
bullet Companion CD
bullet Plan
bullet Print
bullet GPS Positioning
bullet Only available
   with Chartbooks

bullet Product Overview
bullet GPS Ready
bullet Multiple Scales
bullet Pre-plotted Courses
bullet Aerial Photos
bullet Save Hundreds of Dollars
bullet Companion CD
bullet Plan
bullet Print
bullet GPS Positioning
bullet Only available
   with Chartbooks


Product Overview

Used by generations of boaters, ChartKits are full-color reproductions of U.S. government and private charts spiral bound into popular cruising regions. The convenient-sized books are large enough to allow for manual plotting, yet small enough to sit on your nav-station or lap. Waterproof Covers are available.


ChartKit Books






GPS Ready

New features make ChartKits easy to use with your GPS. Most charts include one-minute lat./long. grids to make vessel positioning a breeze, and major navigation aids are identified with named GPS waypoints.



GPS Ready





Small and Large Scale Charts

ChartKits include small-scale, wide area charts as well as large-scale, detailed charts of harbors and approaches. The Chart Page Index (inside front cover) and "Go-To" page numbers make it simple to quickly find the chart you want.



Multiple Scales






Pre-plotted Courses

Maptech's navigation editors add magnetic courses between major navigation aids with distances in nautical miles. ChartKits are also designed to help you do the calculations yourself. Each page includes a Compass Rose with annual increase in variation and complete scale information.



Pre-plotted Courses





Aerial Photos

Color aerial photos of harbors and anchorages help you know what to expect before you get there.



Aerial Photos





A Great Value

ChartKits are a great value. You save up to 90% off the cost of individual government charts. (The price of ChartKit, Region 3 is $129.95. The cost of the government charts needed to cover the same region would be over $700.)



A Great Value





"Paper and Digital Charts Together!"
      - A Maptech Exclusive

It's all here...digital charts and the software tools to use them. And the great thing is the digital charts are the same identical charts with GPS waypoints and course lines - just like in the Chartbooks.


''Paper and Digital Charts Together!'' - A Maptech Exclusive





Click to Create Routes

Chartbook Companion CDs include "Offshore Navigator Lite" navigation software. Click your mouse to put a waypoint on a chart. Click again, and you're creating a route. It's that easy. Distances, bearings and GPS positions are calculated and displayed instantly.


Click to Create Routes





Print Your Own Charts

Print your own customized GPS waypoints, route plans and chart segments on color or black and white printers.


Print Your Own Charts





GPS Positioning Rollover

Connect a GPS to your laptop and see your real-time position on the computer screen. Real-time positioning requires connecting an industry-standard NMEA 0183 GPS to your PC.


GPS Positioning Rollover





Companion CDs are now included with most Chartbooks

Starting in 2005, most Maptech Waterproof Chartbooks and ChartKit books include a Chartbook Companion CD for the same region - Another Maptech Exclusive!



Companion CDs are now included with most Chartbooks




Chartkit Books

Chartkit Books

with Companion CD



Navigation Training Series

"How to Use GPS"
"Chart Symbols"


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