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Introducing the Inside Passage series

It's been a busy winter here at Wild Coast Publishing, as we're finally ready to roll out the new Inside Passage Chart Assistant series. It is essentially an unbroken, uniformly scaled overview of the Inside Passage through British Columbia, from Washington State to (eventually) Alaska. For the moment, the 2022 release is 11 mapsheets from the south end of the British Columbia coast to Smith Sound. They differ from the Deck Topper series (the 200-series mapsheets) by being exactly twice the scale: 121,070:1. This allows them to cover a much greater geography, and so reduces the number of mapsheets needed by a factor of four.  Essentially the series is designed for mariners traveling extensively along the coast who are likely...

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