[Bizer]

Hmmm. When I posed this question in 2009, there were eight replies. There were no replies for to this thread for seventeen days, although I did receive four private messages/emails.

Originally Posted by SIKSUKR

My Bizer chart shows a red marker right off Sandy Point.The black marker is shown as FL 23.There should be a black about halfway from Sandy to the bandstand though.

Halfway between Sandy Point and the bandstand there are two buoys. When I was in the area on 12-SEP, I recall seeing them both.

Originally Posted by samosetguy

... I believe it was a black buoy on the north side of Sandy Island (right off the shore of Sandy Island as it faces Long Island). ...

I didn't look for that buoy this year. If I go back for a one-day resurvey, I'll look. I've never known the purpose of that buoy as I've been unable to find anything less than six feet deep in the area. Perhaps some deep-draft sailboat hit the six foot rock once. Perhaps I missed the real danger.

Originally Posted by Bear Islander

Is it possible to make the Bear Island NWZ more obvious on your map? ...

On the next edition, there will be an arrow pointing to the area and "NO-WAKE" printed. The arrow and text will be on Bear Island just above the "Horsebarge" (see below). On the current edition, the word, "Horsebarge" partially covers the NO-WAKE buoy.

I walk a fine line here. Many people tell me that they prefer the other map because Bizer's chart has too much information (i.e. cluttered). This is one more piece of clutter.

Originally Posted by Winnipesaukee

Might I kindly suggest making the chart "red-light readable"?

"kindly" suggestions are always accepted. For future reference, a $50 bill really gets my attention. So I tried a mixture of 65% red and 35% brown. When I looked at the map on my monitor, it still looks red so I may go with that. In the test (below), the "1" is the magenta currently used for lighted buoys, but if you look at light #4, the new magenta-brown is slightly different. In the test, the "2" is the pure red, but the red buoys now are red-brownish. Changing the buoys took about an hour, but to change all the red text may take a while.



Here are some other items of interest that I discovered the week of September 11th:

The barbers' pole ornament that was set in 2001 was absent last year and this year. Unless someone has some reason to believe that it will be replaced, Bizer will remove it from its next edition chart.

The buoys north of Two-Mile Island have been substantially reconfigured. Of the seven buoys that were there in 2007, one has been removed and five others have been reset in a new configutation. Only one of the seven buoys had not moved.

There are only three no-wake buoys marking the entrance to Meredith docks. Last year there were four, prior to that, there were five.

One half mile east of Meredith Marine, Duncan Press shows a 12 foot depth while Bizer shows the depth to be 55+ feet. As a result, Duncan's web page calls Bizer's depth information, "well-meaning but amateurish". In the interest of accuracy, Bizer investigated and could find no depth less than 45 ft in this area so there will be no changes.

One of the red-and-white buoys southeast of Big Island has been reset over 500 feet from its former position.

The red-and-white buoy just south of Ledge Island has moved (or been reset) about 80 feet.

Someone informed Bizer that they travel slightly north of Eagle Island to avoid the NO-WAKE zone southeast of Eagle Island. In the past, Bizer had never encountered anything less than 3.5 feet below low lake. Upon more investigating, Bizer found two rocks less than three feet below low-lake, one of the rocks is only 15 inches below low-lake. These, along with about 5 other newly found rocks, will appear on Bizer's next edition.