I haven't weighed in on this controversy until now. I navigate mainly by the chart plotter in the cockpit but I always have paper charts along. In the Bahamas, the Navionics charts are so bad that I transcribe waypoints from Monty's Explorer charts to the chart plotter and ignore all else. One year when crossing from Maine to Nova Scotia, I somehow completely forgot about Ram and Seal islands in the Bay of Fundy. I knew they were there. I'd been by them many times. But somehow, being up all night, I forgot about them. I was tracking passage progress on the chart plotter zoomed out to show the entire Bay which didn't show either island. I only remembered them when I saw the light on Ram Island. It was quite embarrassing. Nearly all serious troubles at sea are a result of multiple failures. In the case I mention, it was a combination of tiredness and use of electronic charts at the wrong zoom level. Had I no chart plotter, I would have been tracking my progress on my paper charts and clearly seen the islands. Electronic charts are great but they do add one more potential failure to that multiple that can lead to disaster.