A chart I can see on-line of western basin cans and bouys

fellow Fishermen and women of course....I been trying to study the cans that lay in the western basin on some kind of map on-line. Problem is they are too damn small...anyway I was trying to figure out how far off these cans would be if launching out of South Bass island State Park. I know they vary and it also looks like there may be two different cans with the same letter, one of the lettered cans being on the Canadian border...Oh Im buying a map but I jonsing for that info now.

Chart 14830
You can size or move this around as you wish. I hope.

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Originally Posted by ttinman23

fellow Fishermen and women of course....I been trying to study the cans that lay in the western basin on some kind of map on-line. Problem is they are too damn small...anyway I was trying to figure out how far off these cans would be if launching out of South Bass island State Park. I know they vary and it also looks like there may be two different cans with the same letter, one of the lettered cans being on the Canadian border...Oh Im buying a map but I jonsing for that info now.

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I can't give you the exact distance but on a good day we made that run many times from the state Park.

You might want to check Miller Ferry's web site. According to that they're not taking vehicles with boats to the Islands.

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Use the navionics web app. It should show the cans and has a measure tool. If viewing from the phone be sure to use the desktop option on your browser to get full functionality.

Looks like it’s 5-7 miles depending on what can you want to visit.


Navionics ChartViewer

Boat stays on PIB.

thx everyone

nice slack worked out well.

I bought one of those Chart 14830 at Christmas time. How often do they update those charts?
Thanks

A topic near and dear to me. Been working on my own version of this for several years, including some contact with NOAA. Hopefully I'll have it sometime this season.

For now, here's a nice NOAA Office of Coast Survey online (read you don't need an app or device to use it) interactive source for determining distances on Lake Erie charts.

I don't know what the link will say once I post this. Just click on it.
ArcGIS Web Application

Here are the steps to use:

1.Zoom into the Western Basin of Lake Erie. You may have to do this slowly for the map to load correctly. Zoom in far enough for chart buoys and navigation aids to appear.
2. Click the "ruler" icon up at the top left of the map (the third one from the left). The "measurement" box appears.
3. Click the center "ruler" icon at the top left of the box (the center icon).
4. Click your starting location on the map. A green marker pin appears.
5. As you move your cursor around the map, the distance is shown in the Measurement Box. Click on another spot, a distance leg is created.
6. Play around with it to find out how to do other things.

Remember if you are going around islands you need to create legs around it, not through it. :-)

Hope this is useful to you.

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Originally Posted by West Basin

A topic near and dear to me. Been working on my own version of this for several years, including some contact with NOAA. Hopefully I'll have it sometime this season.

For now, here's a nice NOAA Office of Coast Survey online (read you don't need an app or device to use it) interactive source for determining distances on Lake Erie charts.

I don't know what the link will say once I post this. Just click on it.
ArcGIS Web Application

Here are the steps to use:

1.Zoom into the Western Basin of Lake Erie. You may have to do this slowly for the map to load correctly. Zoom in far enough for chart buoys and navigation aids to appear.
2. Click the "ruler" icon up at the top left of the map (the third one from the left). The "measurement" box appears.
3. Click the center "ruler" icon at the top left of the box (the center icon).
4. Click your starting location on the map. A green marker pin appears.
5. As you move your cursor around the map, the distance is shown in the Measurement Box. Click on another spot, a distance leg is created.
6. Play around with it to find out how to do other things.

Remember if you are going around islands you need to create legs around it, not through it. :-)

Hope this is useful to you.

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Hey thx a lot.