NOAA Custom Charts (NCC) — The Future of Paper Charts
References and resouces, compliments of Starpath School of Navigation
Official NOAA docs
• NOAA description of the NCC program, with related links
USCG Local Notices to Mariners Announcements
Starpath Notes
• Start Saying Goodbye to Your Favorite Paper Chart
• Starpath Video on the NCC process (we need to make a new one for v2.0)
• Printing NCC and related notes
• Making Ocean Plotting Charts with the NCC App
• Starpath app to create a compass rose to add to an NCC
• Notable challenges in ver 1.2, with fixes made in ver. 2.0
Sample NCC charts
• Mats Mats to Point Hudson, WA, ver 2.0 (not made yet)
• Pailolo Channel, HI, ver 2.0
• Waters off of Shilshole Bay Marina
• First pass at an 18465 Tr counterpart
• First pass at a 1210 Tr counterpart