Helpful Sailing & Boating Sites

[Maine Sail]

How to Compass Marine

Thanks!!!

 

[ghostlymoron]

Mooring and anchoring

http://www.bradneychain.com/_pdf/Mooring-and-Anchoring-Leaflet.pdf

 

[ProDave]

For anyone trailer sailing, or looking for marinas and harbours while cruising:

http://www.boatlaunch.co.uk/default.aspx
http://www.ports.org.uk/
http://marinas.com/
http://www.pbo.co.uk/marina-guide

28 day tide prediction: http://www.pol.ac.uk/ntslf/tidalp.html

 

[Stu Jackson]

www.amplepower.com

 

[seacock]

q

 

[Salty John]

http://www.saltyjohn.co.uk/cruisingresources.htm

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

... and mine...

http://www.threepointfix.co.uk

An site to share useful info about locations, and manage and share your logbook online

 

[davel]

Some of these may be repeats, in which case - apologies:

Headmistress, all things loo related

World Cruising Club

OziExplorer - well regarded, low cost PC charting software

Marine engine manuals

Second hand charts

Electrical systems overview

Free Raster charts for US waters

Good site for comparing metrics of different sailboats

Southampton VTS

 

[JayEm]

List of racing tips

There's a good collection of racing tips here...

http://www.cavalier28.com/racing-tips

 

[Halcyon Yachts]

www.prosailor.co.uk

 

[Quandary]

Three companies who have taken the trouble to support the users of their products with lots of relevant information presented in an interesting way

www.jefa.com/
www.seldenmast.com/
www.harken.com/

lots of others but these are my favourites

 

[Crabber24]

www.ncirossallpointfleetwood.co.uk

NCI = National Coastwatch Institution

Google NCI for other stations, all of whom welcome volunteers and donations from the sailing community.

 

[Elessar]

Don't forget Simon

Www.weatherweb.net
Excellent weather resource.

 

[jdc]

a few more

http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/welcome_anchorages.pdf
includes many small harbours and anhorages in Scotland.

http://www.tb-training.co.uk/Contents.htm
is excellent for boat maintenance advice.

http://www.itu.int/online/mms/mars/ship_search.sh
is the ITU list of ship's call signs and MMSI numbers.

http://www.cadastral.com/2011jan.htm
is an online source of ephemeris for the sun and Polaris (page for jan; you can work out how to get other months yourself!)

Hope not all are reposts - I didn't spot them above anyway.

 

[The engineer]

suffolkyacht

http://suffolkyacht.com/Marine-engineering-articles/

 

[wolfy]

www.boat-jumbles.co.uk
www.boatjumbles.org.uk

 

[GandT]

www.sailingalmanac.com

This site is free online almanac for mobile phones (iphone and android)
Has everything: tides, weather, passage plans, marina guide, first aid, ROR... the lot.

 

[gasdave]

UK circumnavigation

www.circumnavigation-uki.co.uk/

Sam Steele's site is also a useful resource for anyone thinking about this sort of trip, or indeed just looking for a load of advice/inspiration from experienced sailors.

 

[SHUG]

http://www.passageweather.com/

is an excellent weather site

 

[catalac08]

Acorn Engineering at Ashton -u Lyne (acornengineer.co.uk) are by the canal side so inevitably have lots of narrow boat stuff but also have many of those hard to source items of an engineering or electrical nature. Their catalogue must be a bible for boatbuilders.