Helpful Sailing & Boating Sites

[MrB]

This is a good site. The piracy pages are quite a read http://www.noonsite.com/

 

[nigelmercier]

Bavaria Yacht Forum

I think we could compile a list of helpful sailing and boating sites ...

May I add the new Bavaria Yacht Forum to this list. I'm the administrator, but the site is not commercial - indeed being free to join and use it actually makes a loss!

 

[Stork_III]

Rebuilding a sea water pump? How to do it. http://www.pbase.com/mainecruising/raw_water_pump

 

[LittleSister]

Moon and stars

MOON - Nice moon phase animation
http://astro.unl.edu/naap/lps/animations/lps.swf

STARS (AND MORE) - a fantastically beautiful, informative and interactive star, moon, etc. resource is 'Stellarium', a free quality download (uses a fair bit of memory)
www.stellarium.org

 

[Searching]

Helpful Sailing & Boating Sites reply

Try this site for pretty much everything I have found it VERY helpfull in the past.

http://www.btinternet.com/~keith.bater/index.htm

 

[sailingelana]

Lake district weather

This is a great source for detailed weather information in the Lake District. http://www.lakedistrictweatherline.co.uk/

 

[apbristow]

Useful Crew Management Site

Some may find www.4clubs.biz useful.

If you have a squad of regulars who might want to crew for you, and a number of outings/races/cruises when you will be looking for crew, it does a really useful job. You enter the dates you want crew, and those who want to simply sign up online for themselves. I'm using it for planning my 2012 'season'.

It also works for those who are organising rallies, regattas etc for taking online entries etc. And it provides a facility for taking online bookings for charterers, halls, gites etc.

I think the site is new but it is UK based and looks very promising. It's good to see that it takes data security seriously.

 

[Pleiades]

"Sailers" - Helpful sailing & Boating Site

The "Sailers" site is back up and running after recovery from an attack by internet web site pox.
Lots of good boaty bits for information - worth a skim.
http://www.sailers.co.uk/

Cheers,

Robin
Pleiades of Birdham
MXWQ5

 

[benlui]

Harbour/passage info mostly around IRL

www.inyourfootprints.com

 

[jackho]

Anyone like to include Mobile Apps? (Just posted a similar topic.)

 

[pearleye]

The links and the compilation really helps. Thanks!

 

[FGalvin]

One of the best sites I have found gives almost daily information on diverse, exotic, and terrific places to go yachting and sailing. Plus they help you find people who share that passion for the ocean and boating. Take a look at yachtdates, particularly their Facebook page.

Great stuff!

 

[LadyInBed]

Another Weather Site

I came across weather.lgfl.org.uk today.
It gives a fair range of site readings over UK. Good for setting barometers.

 

[gasdave]

Animated knots by Grog

I've recently put this on my android phone, there's an iphone version too...

http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.animatedknots.knots

It has all of the "basic" knots and a lot more as well, sensibly organised, with excellent easy to follow animations. Very handy to have in your pocket

 

[LadyInBed]

Pattersons 1891 illustrated nautical dictionary

http://archive.org/details/cu31924030750776
This is a pdf but it in various formats

 

[beverlygreene40]

These are my favorite sites, full of really useful info for a new boat owner like myself. Apparently the last one is quite popular round here:

http://coxengineering.co.uk/default.aspx

http://www.sailtrain.co.uk/index.htm

http://www.tidalstreams.net

http://www.netknots.com

http://www.ybw.com/forums

Thanks for the list of links. I'm also new at boats but I want to learn the right stuff

 

[OGITD]

Flags

For all your Flag requirements:

 

[YachtAllegro]

Written by a friend of mine this site has a lot of useful information about what to do from most of the Scottish anchorages between the Mull of Kintyre and Ardnamurchan - it really is pretty comprehensive:
http://www.scottishanchorages.co.uk/
Its a nice companion to the pilot books, which are good at telling you how to get there but tend to be rather light on what there is to see once the anchor's down. Well worth a look.

Cheers
Patrick

 

[reginaldon]

This thread has been a great help after having laptop 'half iched'.

 

[Halo]

Best Weather Site I have found - has all the international weather "models" including US Military, UK Met Office, Japanese, etc

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/

Its in German but you dont have to be a genius to work it out Have a play with the site and see what I mean.