oCharts Germany not uptodate

[Aldebaran17]

In the past I had the impression that the weekly updates of oCharts are pretty good reflecting the current changes in buoys in my area. However, this week I ran into a missing update, which safety relevant.

If you look at the attached screen shot, which shows the buoyed channel to the island of Sylt, the northern most island of Germany in the german bight.

Minor point: the buoys should be labeled "LT1", "LT1a" and so forth and not "No 1", since the channel is called "Lister Tief".

More important: "LT3" has been moved two weeks ago. In the attached screenshot you can see a green buoy labeled "LT 3" added by myself manually and the buoy labelled "No 3" a little bit to the south, which is the buoy in the electronic chart corresponding to the old position. In the current track (in dark green) we verified that the buoy in real live is at its new position. We had to tack around the buoy, so we passed it very close, maybe 50-100m.

Best,

Manfred

[bcn]

That just depends on how quick the BSH does include the relocated buoys into the ENCs. The oeSENC charts get updated weekly (Mondays), same frequency as the BSH data.

[Aldebaran17]

Originally Posted by bcn

That just depends on how quick the BSH does include the relocated buoys into the ENCs. The oeSENC charts get updated weekly (Mondays), same frequency as the BSH data.

Thanks for the insights. I was expecting that is an automatic process, which works or does not work. For a user like me it is important to know, how reliable this process is.

Best,

Manfred

[bcn]

The question is for the BSH. We know that they try to picture new or repositioned buoys quickly into the ENCs. How successful this is, we can't verify. In some (?) cases there are as well the NtM, Nachrichten für Seefahrer. For example: https://www2.bsh.de/aktdat/nwn/nwn-nord.pdf


If you like you can lodge a mail to the BSH concerning this issue (with the example) and we shall see how they respond.


In the case of oeSENC the latest versions of all available ENCs is are place since this (Monday) noon. Same as every week.


Hubert

[merrimac]

In waters like these I always have my radar on, so I can see where the buoys and/or sticks (Priele?) actually are.