Small Craft Chart Series 165 San Francisco Bay to Antioch California 1961

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Here is the first edition of the 1961 Small Craft Chart Series 165, San Francisco Bay to Antioch, California. In April 1958, Rear Admiral H. Arnold Karo, Director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, U.S. Department of Commerce, inaugurated the Bureau’s Small-craft chart program to promote navigational safety among the over 7 million pleasure boat operators in the United States. A special committee undertook a detailed study of the boatmen’s requirements to develop a compact chart for small-craft use in inland and coastal waters. In addition to excellent comments from the boating public, this committee received a tremendous assist from the U. S. Power Squadrons, who summarized replies from 5 000 operators, and from the Coast Guard Auxiliary, who furnished complete questionnaires representing 2 000 operators. Based on the majority of the requirements and suggestions received, in 1958 four experimental small-craft chart formats covering the Potomac River were developed. Two were folded charts and two were book type. In order to provide equal comparison, each format covered the same area and contained the same primary information. After methodically arranging and evaluating the replies from over twenty-three thousand boatmen, the committee concluded that user reaction to all four formats was extremely favorable, with an over 60 per cent preference going to the “folio” type (3-folded sheets, bound in cover). After the issue of our first small-craft chart, 101-SC, Potomac River, four more of the folio type were subsequently published, as follows : 140-SC, Fort Pierce to Miami, Fla., January 1960; 184-SC, Bellingham to Seattle, Wash., October 1960; 165-SC, San Francisco Bay to Antioch, Calif., January 1961; 117-SC, Long Island Sound, New Haven Harbor. Entrance and Point Jefferson to Throgs Neck, Conn., N. Y., October 1961. 8 ½” x 15”. Rough along the spiral binding along the top edge. Light soil and store stamp on the cover. Internally good and complete.
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