Tag: charts

Introduction to Charts and Basic Navigation: Part 3

Collections Corner Join our Yachts on Exhibit Operations Coordinator, Nicholas Alley, to learn the fundamentals of finding your location using maritime charts and traditional tools. We will cover different types of charts, plotting tools, and how to use a compass…

Introduction to Charts and Basic Navigation: Part 2

Collections Corner Join our Yachts on Exhibit Operations Coordinator, Nicholas Alley, to learn the fundamentals of finding your location using maritime charts and traditional tools. We will cover different types of charts, plotting tools, and how to use a compass…

Introduction to Charts and Basic Navigation: Part 1

Collections Corner Join our Yachts on Exhibit Operations Coordinator, Captain Nicholas Alley, in Introduction to Charts and Basic Navigation. Learn the fundamentals of finding your location using maritime charts and traditional tools. We will cover different types of charts, plotting…

Title page from The English Pilot, 1671.

The Map and Chart Collection

Two grants from private foundations helped to arrange, describe and create a database of the chart and map collection at Mystic Seaport Museum, a heretofore underutilized collection. Beginning in the early 1930’s, the Museum began collecting, among many other things,…