b'C H A P T E R S E V E N1.Youve Come a Long, Long Way, Chart-maker!Among all ye Clieats that ye World are daylly abusd with, none had been more Scandalous than that of maps.Sometimes New ones are put out by Ignorant Pretenders. Sometimes mean and imperfect forreign Maps are Copid and published by them as their own, and having no Judgment or Knowledge of what is good or bad, correct or incorrect. From an advertisement on a map made in 1711 by Herman Moll, Dutch-English map-maker.1Ever since he was seven, going to camp in Maine, George Olmsted has had a passion for life on the sea under sail. The taste of salt air clung to him through college (Williams 55) and careers in three different fields (paper manufacturing; electronics, turning out components for marine two-way radios, CB radios, radar receivers and the like; and making optical elements). It certainly didnt slacken when his wife, Mary, and he bought a Mill Pond home in 1985, retiring to it ten years later.Olmsted had learned many things along the way. After Williams, he had gone to Navy Officers Candidate School. One course that stayed with him was navigation. In civilian days, that would continue to be useful, especially on a cruise to Bermuda in 1987, when every hand had to perform many duties.Had he wanted, he could have taken his eighteen- foot Marshall cat over the horizon and back.But to be that enterprising, he knew he ought to have current local charts. On investigating, he found that he could buy four NationalJim Davis, one of Chathams Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency charts forfinest blue-water skippers, Chatham-area watersat $24 a piece. Pricejoined FCWs George Olmsted in developing a notwithstanding, Olmsted also saw thatnavigational chart (# 50E) neighboring sections of those charts were inthat is a best seller at different scale and did not match up. That led himlocal stores.Courtesy ofin 1994 to the Chatham door of a prominent sailorMrs. James Davis.with exceptional blue-water credentials, the late Jim Davis.100'