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Frequently Asked Questions for superyacht navigation

superyacht FAQs

Digital charts, publications & compliance solutions from Riviera Charts

As a superyacht owner or captain navigating global waters, you need navigation solutions that adapt to your changing itineraries while ensuring full compliance. This FAQ addresses the most common questions we receive about our navigation services, from traditional paper charts to cutting-edge digital solutions like NovacoBridge and NovacoPAYS.

With 45 years of experience supporting superyachts from our Antibes base, we understand the unique challenges you face – whether managing seasonal operations, preparing for inspections or transitioning to digital navigation. These answers will help you understand how Riviera Charts can simplify your chartroom management, reduce costs, and ensure your vessel remains compliant wherever your voyage takes you.

We support your voyage planning by ensuring your charts and publications are correct, up to date, and appropriate for your intended itinerary.
Whether you operate a commercial or private yacht, we supply the mandatory official charts and publications, along with practical navigation tools to help you plan and sail safely.

Yes. We support paper charts, ECDIS, ECS, and mixed bridge configurations.

Our solutions are designed to work with your existing navigation setup, ensuring compliance while keeping bridge routines straightforward and familiar.

Novaco Navigation is Riviera Charts’ parent company. It provides digital charts, publications and solutions designed to help you sail safely, efficiently and simply. Novaco’s services are available to all types of vessels worldwide.

Yes. NovacoPAYS is designed for global use, allowing you to activate chart coverage wherever your voyage takes you, without committing to regions in advance.

With NovacoPAYS, you have all necessary ENCs at your disposal for planning, and only pay for the charts actually used.
Charts are automatically activated as your vessel sails “under the keel”, giving you flexibility, reducing costs and simplifying administration.

Once NovacoHub is installed and NovacoPAYS activated, you’re ready to start, it’s that simple.

 

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NovacoBridge is suitable for yachts of all sizes that require reliable paper chart management, compliance support, and clear overview of publications.

But it’s more than just chart management : with the NovacoPlan module for passage planning and the Chart Viewer facility, it provides extra security and efficiency for your sailing operations.

NovacoHub is ideal for anyone responsible for ECDIS updates and compliance on board. It saves time, reduces manual work, and ensures consistent compliance, particularly on busy yachts or seasonal operations. Updates are fetched automatically, ready to be applied to your ECDIS.

Before setup, we send you a short questionnaire to confirm your ECDIS make, model and software version. This ensures full compatibility, and we clearly advise if any limitations apply.

You receive ongoing support throughout the subscription, including:

  • Assistance with updates and corrections.
  • Operational guidance.
  • Compliance and survey support.

Initial setup and verification are handled by our experienced Customer Support team, available 24/7 worldwide.

Our subscriptions are designed around flexibility and real yacht operations, not generic shipping models.
We adapt coverage and services to your usage and trading area, without locking you into unnecessary features or long-term commitments.

Yes. Our solutions are particularly suitable for yachts with local or global itineraries, and changing operational patterns, allowing you to scale coverage up or down as needed.

If your itinerary changes, we update your coverage to match your new route. With NovacoBridge, you have access to the full catalogue, so adjusting your folios as needed is straightforward. For digital publications, we simply add the zones or areas required for your updated itinerary. And with NovacoPAYS, you’re automatically covered wherever your voyage takes you.

Absolutely. Every subscription is tailored to your vessel, navigation setup, and operating area, ensuring you pay for what you need.

We assist by ensuring your charts, publications and digital systems are:

  • Correctly updated.
  • Properly documented.
  • Aligned with survey and inspection requirements.

Yes. We regularly support new builds and refits, from initial bridge setup and equipment selection to first delivery compliance and operational handover to crew.

We review your existing charts, publications and digital setup to:

  • Check edition status and updates.
  • Identify gaps or unnecessary coverage.
  • Confirm compliance requirements.

You receive a clear overview and quotation, with no obligation.

We supply a full range of mandatory publications, including IMO, ICS, MCA, and more.

In addition, we offer:

  • Logbooks: Bridge, Engine Room, Garbage, Oil, Official, and many more.
  • Cruising guides: including Imray and other practical references.
  • Learning aids: to help you get to the next level in navigation knowledge.
  • Navigation stationery and high-quality nautical flags and ensigns.

If you have specific requirements, please don’t hesitate to send them to us.

Because we combine technical expertise, long-standing experience and flexibility.
We don’t oversell features or push unnecessary subscriptions, we focus on solutions that actually work on a yacht bridge.

We understand that yachting operations can be time critical. Our team responds quickly to last-minute updates, urgent corrections, or compliance issues, whether before departure or while at sea.

For paper charts and publications, the team at Riviera Charts can ship items rapidly from the shop in France. For digital solutions, our worldwide Customer Support team is available 24/7 to assist with any technical questions or assistance.

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