Both racers and cruisers may wish to check out the updated Lac Dechênes Charts page, where you’ll now find new links to electronic chart options, the GPS coordinates of our race marks, and more.
The i-Boating website offers interactive on-line charts of the Ottawa River; several screenshots are saved on the above page, including this one of Lac Dechênes:
Navionics, the publisher of the #1 Boating & Navigation App, also makes their Navionics Charts available for viewing in a browser. For example, see this screenshot:
Above, you’ll see that our yellow race marks have been added to the screenshot. Tony Latus from BYC has led an interclub effort to replace and restore the “Olympic Circle” and other yellow race marks; 5 of the 8 Olympic Circle marks are now in place, as are S, P and a new mark off Pinhey’s Point. The master GPS coordinates of all these marks are now available for viewing and downloading in Excel format, from the Lac Dechênes Charts page. For those who use the Navionics Boating App, those marks have been added to the Navionics “Community Edits” database.
All of the channel marks leading to NSC have also been added to the Navionics “Community Edits” database, in their current location. It should be noted that marks KN3 and KN4 shown on Chart 1550 have not existed in their charted locations for years. The Coast Guard has been notified, and NOTMARs issued, so those marks should eventually be removed from all electronic charts and future paper publications.