BlueChart Data Card

Coverage:

Covers the east coasts of the U.S. and Canada from New Bedford, MA to Saint John, NB, including Cape Cod, Boston, MA, Portsmouth, NH, and Portland, ME. Also covers Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Island to the southwest and Grand Manan Island and the St. Mary's Bay area of Nova Scotia to the northeast. Click on map to view detailed coverage.

Features:

BlueChart cartography is Garmin's exclusive marine cartography. It complements Garmin's new line of handheld mapping products and marine chartplotters. This line of cartography products is designed to provide interactive viewing of detailed nautical chart data, thereby providing navigators with innovative object-oriented cartography. These detailed electronic nautical charts look just like paper charts when displayed on your Garmin chartplotter. Features include shading between depth contours, spot soundings, navaids, port plans, wrecks, obstructions, inter-tidal zones, and more.

Vector data with paper chart-like appearance
Large coverage areas for ease of selection and greater overall satisfaction
Object-oriented functionality provides complete description for chart feature
Chart-by-chart presentation provides best resolution and detail that the chart will allow
Shaded depth contours and inter-tidal zones with spot soundings
Aids to navigation with view range and coverage including light sectors information
Port plans
U.S. tide data
Descriptions for chart name, number, Notice to Mariners date, publisher, and release date
Wrecks, restricted areas, cable areas, anchorages, shoals, spoilage and much more
Bridges are described indicating construction type, clearance, length, etc.
All data in WGS 84 datum

Product Compatibily:

GPSMAP 172C, GPSMAP 178C Sounder, GPSMAP 182/182C, GPSMAP 188/188C Sounder, GPSMAP 196, GPSMAP 2006/2006C, GPSMAP 2010/2010C, GPSMAP 232, GPSMAP 238 Sounder, GPSMAP 276C, GPSMAP 296, GPSMAP 3006C/3010C

Garmin Part # MUS500L