Helpful Sailing & Boating Sites

[Forest Girl]

What would be really useful is a website holding all the tidal stream atlas illustrations from the almanacs.
Any ideas if one exists?

 

[Crabber24]

What would be really useful is a website holding all the tidal stream atlas illustrations from the almanacs.
Any ideas if one exists?

For a downloadable prog. check out Admiralty Total Tide:
http://www.ukho.gov.uk/PRODUCTSANDSERVICES/DIGITALPUBLICATIONS/Pages/ATT.aspx

We use it at our local NCI station. It might be what you are looking for.

 

[Overner]

Tidal stream atlases online

In reply to the question about the NP tidal atlases, quite a few are available free at VisitMyHarbour, here's a sample for the east coast:

http://www.visitmyharbour.com/harbours/east-coast/east-coast/charts.asp?cattype=5


Tidal atlas areas covered are from Berwick on Tweed clockwise to Solway Firth

 

[Forest Girl]

Tidal atlas

Perfect! Thank you so much. I've been searching for something like this forever. If you google tidal stream atlas you only get sites selling them in paper form.
Thanks again.

 

[ecasey]

Great stuff!

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

Two very good but slightly different clubs...

http://www.readingoffshore.org.uk/
http://www.henleyoffshore.org/index.htm

 

[capetown]

Bramblemet

Live wind speed and direction, and more, Southampton to Chichester

http://www.bramblemet.co.uk/(S(yyhqge55gr31sj452gbk1lrv))/default.aspx

Enjoy

 

[jaybeegee]

Dufour 27 Owners forum

Hello All, posting this link which will surely interest Dufour 27 owners:

http://dufour27.proboards.com

cheers

 

[Tremlett42]

Hi guys,

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[mainsail]

Marina Boat Handling - Moody with wind on port bow

This video is an interesting example of how a little wind can make a big difference when coming away from a marina berth!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqd1HNSFvCc

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

see new thread 'Wind - Where?'

 

[vyv_cox]

Wind?? Where??
People chatting and not concentrating on the job in hand more to blame.
If I owned the boat next door I think I'd put ball fenders all round!

I agree. Excellent example of how not to do it. In the first place a crewmember should be on the foredeck to fend off the downwind boat. If that person then pushed the bow off on reaching the stern of the moored boat the turn would have been made easily. On my boat, which behaves in exactly the same way, I would have turned to port and gone out astern.

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

see new thread 'Wind - Where?'

 

[davidfox]

This video is an interesting example of how a little wind can make a big difference when coming away from a marina berth!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqd1HNSFvCc

Perfect example of not being aware of what is happening, needed a bit more of a charge astern to get some steerage, going so slowly just allowed the vessel to drift sideways, must have scraped that neighbours boat all the way down, they didnt seem to notice??

 

[Little Rascal]

This site is very useful for setting up all kinds of control systems... even if you don't use Harken hardware to do it

Harken Rigging Tips

And this one has similar stuff in pdf's:

Selden Masts

 

[dc15]

Been lurking for a while now and thought it was about time I made a contribution after all the great tips I've had form others on the forums.

Found this app when I was messing with my iPhone the other day. Thought it might be of use to you guys as a quick mobile resource.

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/guide-to-practical-motor-cruising/id431814530?mt=8

I found it handy as I'm reasonably new, thought you guys might too.

 

[SimbaDog]

UK Coastwatch
http://www.nci.org.uk/

 

[richardsnowstar]

This video is an interesting example of how a little wind can make a big difference when coming away from a marina berth!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqd1HNSFvCc

2 crew and neither of them ready to fend off.......

If you can't get the bow through the wind then go out backwards....unfortunately I learnt this the hard way!

 

[gshaw]

DIY Nav Station and Daylight Readable Monitor

In case anyone here is interested.

http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/DIYSR/

A discussion group for the design and construction of a DIY Sunlight Readable monitor, principally for use in the marine environment, for both power and sailing boats, that wish to use laptops or low power PC's to run navigation and weather software on-board. Sure there are commercial monitors available but at a major cost, the idea here is to come up with a low cost alternative, yet give the best performance possible. We will also discuss the computers that drive the monitors and the software that runs on the computer. Also included will be the new breed of tablet, iPhone, iPad and Android device and how it can be integrated on-board. Waterproof cases and such like. THIS IS NOT A COMMERCIAL SITE all info discussed will remain in the public domain for free. Any commercial company wishing to post here can do so providing it is not blatant advertising and it is of benefit to the group.

hope it is of use to some... George

 

[Landlock'd]

My ICS Flash Cards Resource

Hi all,

I'm new here, but I thought this would interest some of you!

I recently wrote an Android app to help me memorize the International Code of Signals (ICS) flags. It's called "ICS Flash Cards"

Check it out here: https://market.android.com/details?id=ics.flash.cards&feature=search_result

It was really helpful for me, so I decided to publish it. (My first published app!) Be gentle in your reviews

I'll be updating it per user request, so feel free to email me some feedback or write it into a review.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I have,
Landlock'd