Virgin Islands, Caribbean 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Virgin Islands, Caribbean 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Virgin Islands, Caribbean 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Virgin Islands, Caribbean 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Virgin Islands, Caribbean 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Virgin Islands, Caribbean 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Virgin Islands, Caribbean 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Nautical Chart

$ 272.00
Size
Frame
13.5 x 31 in
Baltic birch, hand-stained water
Up to nine laser-cut birch layers
Carved bathymetric relief, laser-etched labels
Soundings: NOAA nautical survey data
How the Water Becomes Wood

A chart is a stack of flat sheets until the water's real soundings tell it what shape to take.

  1. SurveyReal bathymetric sounding data sets every contour line before a single cut is made.
  2. CutEach depth band is laser-cut from its own sheet of Baltic birch, up to nine layers deep.
  3. StainWater layers are stained by hand, reading darker the deeper the water runs.
  4. StackThe sheets are registered and stacked in sequence, and the bed's true shape rises out of the wood.
  5. EtchDepths and place names are burned into the grain itself, never printed on it.
  6. FrameA solid Baltic birch frame and acrylic glass finish the piece, ready to hang.

The Virgin Islands in laser-cut Baltic birch, 13.5 by 31 inches: American and British islands together on one chart, carved one depth contour per layer around the channel that made this the sailing capital of the Caribbean.

The Virgins are built for boats the way few places on Earth are: steady trades, short line-of-sight hops, and anchorages everywhere, which is why more charter sailboats work these waters than anywhere else. St. Thomas runs the busy harbors, St. John keeps two-thirds of itself as national park above famous bays like Trunk and Maho, and Virgin Gorda's Baths pile granite boulders into sea-flooded rooms at the water's edge. On the chart, the islands ring their protected channel in birch, the geography of a perfect week under sail.

Contours are laser-cut sheet by sheet, stacked by hand, engraved, and finished behind acrylic glass in a solid Baltic birch frame in Light or White.

Everyone who has chartered here can re-sail the whole itinerary with one finger.

The engraving spans St. Thomas and St. John, Tortola, Virgin Gorda, and the cays between. The long-format panorama of the chain is the Virgin Islands 13.5 by 43 chart.

  • 13.5 × 31 in
  • Solid Baltic birch frame in Light or White
  • Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
  • Free next-business-day shipping on orders placed by 2 PM EST
  • 14-day returns
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