| Animated
Knots by Grog - The best website
on knots I've seen |
| Pacific
Offshore Rigging - The website of a San Diego rigging
company. Their website has a lot of good info, including
a nautical glossary, currency converter, list of nautical
superstitions, etc. |
| SailNet - Articles, discussion boards, equipment and supplies,
etc., etc. |
| Ropers
Knot Page - Another very good website on knots |
| Weather for
Sailors - A website where you can find water
temp, wave height, wind speed and direction, etc., tide
and current info, and the position of various ships and
yachts |
| Intellicast - Good general purpose weather information
website |
| Boat U.S. - A boat owner's association (maybe the largest
in the U.S.). Their website has a lot of good info, as
well as online shopping for just about anything (as near
as I can tell, their online store is really West Marine). |
| Sail
Jazz - Contains a collection of articles of interest
to sailors. The site may be part of Airforce Sails. You
have to mouse-over the banner at the top of the page
in order to see the navigation menu. |
| Bob's Hot Boating
Tips - A sizeable collection of good
tips, techniques and how-to's about boat maintenance. |
| DigiBoat
Calculators - Some useful calculators for various
things such as great circle distances, unit conversions,
battery capacity, etc. |
| Boat Safe - A boating safety website with lots of good
information. |
| Yandina Hints
and Projects - Yandina is a company that
makes battery combiners and related stuff. This is a really
good page on their website with lots of tips and projects
for boat owners. |
| Michel
Goudeseune's Tanzer 22 - This is a personal website
and the author has done quite a bit of maintenance and
modification to his boat and documented it very well.
Lots of useful information. |
| Onpassage.com -
This website has a huge list of links to cruisers' personal
websites and also has a ton of usefull information on various
subjects of interest to cruisers. |
| Jim
Stein's Nautical Terms - A pretty good glossary
of nautical terms. |
| The
Nautical Mind - Purveyors of nautical books and
charts. |
| Dennis
Web's Links Page - A very nice collection of nautical
links compiled by Captain Dennis Web. |
| Plymouth
State Weather Center - Very good site for weather
maps and info, including some tutorials. |
| Maritime
Safety Information - The National Geospatial Intelligence
Agencie's maritime page. This is where you can download
the Notice to Mariners. Be sure to check out the Publications
page, where you can download PDF versions of "American
Practical Navigator," "Chart no. 1" and other very
good books. |
| Cruising
Resources - A compendium of articles pertinent
to cruisers. Kind of like Onpassage.com. |
| Yachtsurvey.com -
David Pascoe is a yacht surveyor who has compiled some
very good articles of interest to anyone shopping for a
boat. |
| NOAA
Marine Forecast Publications - List of publications
by NOAA's National Weather Service, many of which are
free to download. |
| NASA
World Wind - Incredibly cool. This is a free program
that displays a model of the earth on your computer
and allows you to rotate and zoom on any area and see
progressively more detailed satelite images as you
zoom in. |
| User
Fee Decals - U.S. Customs and Border Protection
requires a private vessel of 30' or more in length
to buy a decal. Here is the website. |
| Online
Nautical Dictionaries - A collection of various
nautical dictionaries in various languages. |
| Vessel
Documentation Name Query - A query tool to search
the USCG's database of registered vessels by name.
Useful if you want to know how many other boats already
have the name you want for your boat. |
| World
Time Server - Self explanatory, find the time for
any location in the world. |
| Boatbuilding.net -
Information on boatbuilding and repair. |
| Free
Digital Nautical Charts - Free vector-based charts
from NGA. |
| SeaClear -
Free PC chart plotter and GPS navigation software. |
| Free
Charts from MapTech - I think these are the same
charts as offered by the NGA, but MapTech's interface
makes it easier to find the one you want. |
| Free
Charts from NOAA - Raster scans of all official
nautical paper charts produced by NOAA's Office of
Coast Survey. |
| Free
Mediterranean Maps - I haven't checked these out
yet, but bookmarked it for "someday." |
| The
Cruising Life - Another compendium of cruising
information. |
| SetSail.com -
Lots of information, online store, etc. I think it may
be the official website for the Dashews, as all of their
books are featured prominently. |
| Noonsite -
A website devoted to offshore passagemaking. I think it
is run by Jimmy Cornell, author of World Cruising Routes. |
| Reed's -
Website for Reed's Nautical Almanac. |
| Blue
Water Rallies - If you like to travel in groups,
this site organizes cruising rallies. Not my cup of
tea, but there is some good information to be found
on the site. |
| Ocean
Navigator - Website for Ocean Navigator magazine,
one of the few truly useful sailing magazines. |
| The
Perfect Yacht - Peter Forthmann, who runs Windpilot,
a maker of wind vane self-steering rigs, has written
some very interesting articles on selecting the "perfect"
yacht. |
| Sailing
Reference Links - I am at a loss for what to say
about this site. The link I posted is directly related
to sailing, but this website, created by Jim Martindale,
has links to reference material and calculators for
almost any area of interest. I am in awe. |
| Great
Circle Calculator - Uses either place names (for
326 different cities) or lattitude/longitude. |
| Yet
Another Great Circle Calculator - This one, by
Ed Williams, also calculates true course heading. |
| Sailboat
Design and Stability - A U.S. Sailing webpage about
design characteristics and stability. Kind of brief,
but informative. |
| Equiped
to Survive - This website is about more than just
survival at sea, but they have some really good reviews
of liferafts and other nautical survival gear. |
| Commercial
Crime Services - This organization tracks reports
of piracy. Mainly intended for commercial navigation,
but also of interest to cruisers. |
| Glenn's
Backyard Boatbuilding - This guy is building his
own boat from scratch and has a wealth of info on his
website. |
| Cruisers'
Forum - A discussion board for Cruisers. |
| WaterWiki -
Purported to be a "World-Wide Cruising Guide" modeled after
Wikipedia. I think it is still in its infancy. |
