However, I can only vaguely describe how NV Charts sourced their Cuba charts even though I recently spoke at length with Hasko Schiedt, who founded NV in Germany with his wife Conny more than 35 years ago.
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The first mate did have an Android tablet running Navionics Mobile, which currently offers one of the better data sets for Cuba, but first let's discuss the winner of my comparison testing. Surprisingly (though perhaps due to the lack of an ECDIS requirement and budget), the small cruise ship's main navigation software seemed to be OpenCPN freeware displaying some sort of vector charts that had little detail of Cuba. The watch officers of the Panorama II appreciated the accurate detail available on Cuban charts like the 1:25,000 scale Bahia de Cienfuegos 2015 edition I photographed in their wheelhouse - and they're required to use paper charts anyway - but they too yearned for the same data in electronic form on which they could continuously plot their position.
(Historically it's been difficult for yachties to purchase these charts, even in Cuba, or simply to find out what charts GeoCuba has, but there's some good news on these issues at the end of this entry.) Fortunately, it was actually the Greek skipper above who was responsible for the navigation, along with his mates, and their primary charts were paper ones produced by El Servicio Hidrográfico y Geodésico de la República de Cuba, more simply known as GeoCuba.
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