Marine Service Charts (MSC) - $1.25¹

Marine Service Charts (MSC) list frequencies, schedules and locations of stations disseminating NWS products. They also contain additional weather information of interest to the mariner. Charts are also available via the Internet as listed below.

Both sides of the charts are available, both in GIF and PDF formats. The front side of the charts shows the map and the back side shows the text that accompanies the chart. PDF format is helpful if you need to zoom in on a specific area of the chart. To view the PDF formats of the charts, you must have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer.

Note - As a result of budgetary constraints, these Marine Service Charts are no longer being updated and may contain outdated information. In some cases the amount and/or types of outdated information has resulted in the unfortunate situation that we can no longer justify continuing to make that chart available. Updated information can most often be found on the Marine Forecasts or NOAA Weather Radio webpages or from your Local Weather Forecast Office.

* N/A = No longer available

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Location	Number	GIF Format		PDF Format
Eastport, ME to Montauk Point, NY	MSC-1	Front	Back	Front	Back
Montauk Point, NY to Manasquan, NJ	MSC-2	Front	Back	Front	Back
Manasquan, NJ to Cape Hatteras, NC	MSC-3	Front	Back	Front	Back
Cape Hatteras, NC to Savannah, GA	MSC-4	Front	Back	Front	Back
Savannah, GA to Apalachicola, FL	MSC-5	Front	Back	Front	Back
Apalachicola, FL to Morgan City, LA	MSC-6	Front	Back	Front	Back
Morgan City, LA to Brownsville, TX	MSC-7	Front	Back	Front	Back
Mexican Border to Point Conception, CA	MSC-8	Front	Back	Front	Back
Point Conception, CA to Point St George, CA	MSC-9	Front	Back	Front	Back
Point St George, CA to Canadian Border	MSC-10	Front	Back	Front	Back
Great Lakes	MSC-11/12	Front	Back	Front	Back
Hawaiian Waters	MSC-13	Front	Back	Front	Back
Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands	MSC-14	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Alaskan Waters	MSC-15	Front	Back	Front	Back
Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands	MSC-16	Front	Back	Front	Back

OTHER PUBLICATIONS OF VALUE TO THE MARINER

NOAA PUBLICATIONS
Mariner's Weather Log Magazine - $19.00/3 issues/yr ($26.60 foreign)³
Voluntary Observing Ship Program Brochure (1999) Free⁶
NWS Observing Handbook NO.1 (05/10) Free ⁶
Marine Report User Guide
Worldwide Marine Radiofacsimile Broadcast Schedules (Feb 10, 2012) Free⁴
NOAA Weather Radio Brochure (NOAA/PA 94070, 3/97) Free²
NOAA Weather Radio Handout (NOAA/PA 94061, 3/97) Free²
A Mariners Guide to Marine Weather Services - Great Lakes (NOAA/PA 98053) Free²
A Mariners Guide to Marine Weather Services - Coastal, Offshore, and High Seas (NOAA/PA 98054) Free²
Safe Boating Weather Tips (NOAA/PA 94058, 6/98) Free²
National Ocean Service Coast Pilot, Volumes 1-9¹
Directory of Private Weather Services - Free¹⁰
Hurricane brochures - Free¹⁰
Tropical Cyclones - A Preparedness Guide - Free¹⁰
Mariners Guide for Hurricane Awareness in the North Atlantic Basin (2.3 MB PDF)
TsunamiReady Brochure
 

NOAA SEA GRANT PUBLICATIONS
Lightning & Boats (NOAA/Sea Grant NCU-G-95-004)
Lightning & Sailboats (2009)
Lightning & Sailboats (1992) (NOAA/Sea Grant FLSGP-G-92-001)
Beach safety: protect yourself from lightning (NOAA/Sea Grant DELU-G-90-003)
Inadequacies in the US code for lightning protection of boats (NOAA/Sea Grant FLSGP-R-89-018)
BOATING - LIGHTNING PROTECTION (NOAA/Sea Grant FLSGP-G-85-001)
LIGHTNING: GROUNDING YOUR BOAT (NOAA/Sea Grant MDU-G-80-001)
LIGHTNING CONE OF PROTECTION (NOAA/Sea Grant MICHU-G-80-001)
Rip currents! Break the grip of the rip (NOAA/Sea Grant DELU-G-05-005)
STARFISHER'S LAST VOYAGE (NOAA/Sea Grant ORESU-G-75-004)
Safe boating tips (fact sheet) (NOAA/Sea Grant PENN-G-03-002)
 

NGA PUBLICATIONS
NGA Publication 117 "Radio Navigational Aids" (2005)...Includes CD ¹³
American Practical Navigator (Bowdich) Publication 9 (2002) - ¹³
Pilot Chart Atlas, 5 areas ¹³
Sailing Directions, 42 volumes¹³
U.S. Notices to Mariners¹³
U.S. Notices to Mariners #1, Special Notice to Mariners Paragraphs
 

U.S. COAST GUARD PUBLICATIONS
Reserved
 

NAVY PUBLICATIONS
U.S. NAVY Hurricane Havens/Heavy Weather Handbooks
 

Non-U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
Canadian Coast Guard Radio Aids to Navigation - $18.95 Cdn
The British Admiralty List of Radio Signals⁸