How Frugal Navigator is adapting to the NOAA Custom Chart Era

Welcome to Frugal Navigator, your source for Official NOAA Charts.  NOAA is transitioning from Traditional "Raster" paper nautical charts to Custom "ENC" paper charts.  This transition will be completed in January of 2025.  At this time, many of the traditional charts have been cancelled but others are still available.

Custom Charts:

Some mariners, like us, enjoy creating their own custom "ENC" charts on the new NOAA Custom Chart tool.  For these customers, we've created a web page where your custom chart creations can be uploaded to Frugal Navigator for printing.  We print on high quality material with water and UV resistant inks.

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Replicated Charts:

Other mariners might prefer that someone else create their Custom "ENC" paper charts.  For these customers, we are maintaining the old NOAA Catalogs and replicating the Traditional "Raster" paper charts using the NOAA Custom Chart Tool.  If you order a chart from our NOAA Catalogs, we will send you an ENC based paper chart with all the latest updates that match, as closely as possible, the scale and footprint of the traditional NOAA Chart.  We print these ENC Nautical Charts on high quality material using water and UV resistant inks.  You can find these replicated charts by using the NOAA CATALOGS drop-down menu above. (Please note:  Some catalog pages may display photos of the cancelled traditional chart.  We ask for your patience as we attempt to keep up with web page updates during this NOAA transition to the new ENC based paper charts.)