BSH kompakt 
21 
2005 
• 13 New Editions of small- 
craft chart folios 
• Issue of three summaries of 
corrections 
• New Edition of Chart 3000 
with the most Important sym 
bols and abbreviations 
• Updates to 14 harbour pilots 
and cruising guides Issued in 
co-operation with DSV/DMYV 
• Co-operation In the develop 
ment of a small-craft version 
of AIS (Automatic Identification 
System) 
• Issue of 1,700 flag certifi 
cates 
• Issue of 250 small-craft 
tonnage certificates 
• Product test run of BSH 
current predictions In regattas 
STRONG 
Also in recreational boating 
Before setting out on a boat trip, up-to-date nautical charts should be taken on 
board as routinely as checking the boat and its technical equipment. 
It has happened again and again that even experienced leisure mariners have 
had accidents resulting from Insufficient knowledge of the local waters. 
To be on the safe side, special small craft charts from the BSH’s 16 small-craft 
chart folios covering the North Sea and Baltic Sea should be used, 
updated versions of which are issued at the beginning of each year’s sailing 
season, as well as other nautical publications of the BSH providing, 
for example, special Information about maritime radio services, waypoints, 
weather forecasts and warnings, and tide calendars. Customers will benefit 
particularly from an on-line update service offering chart blocks for downloading 
- an offer everybody should use. Leisure sailors using this service exercise 
circumspection and responsibility for their crew and themselves; to put it briefly: 
they practice good seamanship.