• Australian, British Admiralty &
    New Zealand Navy Charts

  • IMO e-Publications, ITU, Witherby, SOLAS, BridgeWatch

Boat Books is not only one of the leading British Admiralty IACA’s (International Admiralty Chart Agent) in the southern hemisphere, they carry comprehensive stock of Australian & New Zealand Navy Charts, IMO e-Publications, ITU, Witherby and SOLAS regulated publications, plus with their Folio Management system “BridgeWatch” offer a range of services which can provide a powerful aid for ship masters, owners and operators alike, particularly those responsible for ship safety management plans required under the International Safety Management Code.

  • Australian Charts

  • British Admiralty IACA

  • New Zealand Navy Charts

  • IMO e-Publications, ITU, Witherby and SOLAS regulated publications

  • BridgeWatch Folio Management system

  • IMO e-Publications / Witherby Connect / ITU Digital

Boat Books Australia Pty. Ltd., Australia’s offer a chart and publication maintenance service, “BridgeWatch”. For those unfamiliar with it, this has been developed to monitor charts, nautical publications and the required publications for a specific vessel. It will automatically supply their accompanying Notice to Mariner’s as well as provide tracings for relevant charts held.

  • “BridgeWatch” is a complete service that will assist the Navigation Officer in the upkeep of charts and publications to the highest level of accuracy and professionalism.

  • “BridgeWatch” can also supply a correction log appropriate to the vessel’s outfit and has the capabilities to automatically replace charts, nautical publications and reference books on publication of new editions.

  • Advantages of “BridgeWatch”:

    - The design of the system meets your quality assurance and ISM code specifications.
    - Looks at only the charts on board the vessel, not all charts distributed by the relevant authority.

  • Each week Boat Books Australia will issue a computer printout of all the corrections applicable to only the charts on board the Vessel. Along with this report is a copy of the relevant notices to mariners plus only the tracings applicable to the charts on board the vessel.

  • Once the officer concerned has completed the relevant correction(s) he can sign the printout confirming that the correction(s) have been completed.

  • As new charts are issued replacing any charts held on board, the “BridgeWatch” system automatically flags this condition and a new chart is issued to the vessel.

  • “BridgeWatch” allows the Marine superintendent to audit ships charts at any time with a current printout supplied from Boat Books Australia.

  • There is a cost and time saving compared to manually plotting plus “BridgeWatch” manages the charts on board each vessel.

  • One other advantage that “BridgeWatch” has is that at Boat Books Aust P/L we can send certificates of confirmation to “BridgeWatch” clients that all relevant corrections to their charts have been supplied.