![]() ![]() The two crew got out but one was severely hypothermic. It had got on the wrong (ocean) side of the channel and ran aground, lost it's keel, was pounded by heavy waves coming across the 'bar', and washed across the canal onto the beach. I watched a sailboat get beaten literally to death on the rocks trying to enter La Paz late last November. While I haven't been to Mexico with my boat yet I've been advised that generally the guides (such as Charlie's Charts) are better for close in navigation advice. I have the Softcharts for San Diego to Mexico, but those and the Maptech BSB's would have to be based on the old US charts. My first stop will be San Diego (non-stop from probably Neah Bay) for visas and visit family. I have to leave by the end of September (latest) to beat the early winter storms. When are you heading south? I'm also heading down this fall, but the toughest part of my trip may be getting from here (PNW) to where you're at. For now I managed to get a set of the SoftCharts for the Mexico west coast while they were still available, backed up by a paper portfolio from Bellingham Chart Printers ( - a good source for paper and electronic charts. I'd have to assume these are the basis for most of the vector charts available. Most were produced by the US in WWII (based on discussion last fall with the guy who runs one of the older marinas in La Paz). In general the chart's for Mexico are not particularly great. However, Navionics (also from Chartworld site) has some for the west coast. Mexico belongs to the international ENC organizations, but based on the IC-ENC org website (best site to determine what's actually been 'officially' produced) they've only created some for their east coast.
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