Navionics Silver Chart Raymarine

[paulieraw]

Hi, due to downsizing I sold my lovey yacht and now have a small fishing boat for very close inshore fishing use. I have a Lowrance Mark-4 and just happen to have a Navionics Silver Card Raymarine. does anyone know if this is supposed to work on any plotter using Navionics? It a 2014 chart so is still useful for the type of work I will be doing. I know Silver are naff but its fit for purpose for what I want.

If I bought a C-map it would work on any plotter using c-map so I expected the same here. But it doesnt seem to

 

[Lucky Duck]

Provided they use the same physical formats (Eg CF or SD) I would expect the cartridge to work on any Navionics compatible plotter. That said, the Raymarine bit makes me wonder if it is a propriety format in some way.

 

[paulieraw]

Yes that's what I think but I need to test it in case the lowrance is faulty

 

[Plevier]

From Navionics website:

Not for sale as a separate product, Silver is specifically designed to be preloaded in select chart plotters to provide out-of-the-box usability with an enhanced basemap.

http://www.navionics.com/en/silver-2

Suggests to me it is device specific.

If you plug it into your PC it should tell you whether it's upgradeable and at what cost.

 

[paulieraw]

Hi it is up-gradable and for full UK mapping about £70 that is great value considering not upgrading it would be about £180, or would be if I needed that level of mapping- silver would be fine, It is 2014 mapping so not out of date for local work by any means. I would rather use this for what I need and have the option to upgrade later. I suspect I will have no choice but to upgrade.

I will check with Navionics, if I can get hold of anyone.