Useful Links

[Jack]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

In the sprit of a previous thread concerning handy tools to have, I propose creating a thread of handy links to have.

Let there be no debate, this site is a fount of knowledge unparalleled on the web, but I have noticed from time to time people making mention of other sites that they found useful.  I just thought that having a consolidated list of such sites would prove useful.

To start the ball rolling here is my contribution:

Pearson Info/Specs

[commanderpete]

Online chart viewer
http://ocsdata.ncd.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/

Graphical Weather
http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/graphical/sectors/

Photos of Marinas, etc
http://marinas.com/

Tide predictions including slack water
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/currents07/

Nav rules
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/mwv/navrules/rotr_online.htm

Animated knots
http://www.animatedknots.com/index.php

Boat projects
http://www.practical-sailor.com/tools/features.html

Reading telltales
http://tinyurl.com/y4trl6

Sail trim
http://www.ukhalsey.com/LearningCenter/encyclopedia/encyclopedia.asp#1

More sail trim, etc
http://www.jworld-sailing.com/sailing-articles.htm

[bill@ariel231]

Pete...very cool animated knot site.. i love to know were to get some of that "self tying" line. the stuff in my lockers just "self tangles"..

[commanderpete]

I know that feeling. For years I used to carefully coil my anchor line so that it would deploy freely the next time. Used to end up with some horrible birds nests.

Then I learned to just feed it into a bag. No more problems.

My brain only has room to remember a few sailing and fishing knots. If I learned a new one I would forget an old one.

Let's see what other links I have

Nav Rules/Seamanship
http://www.auxetrain.org/navhelp.html

http://sailing.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&sdn=sailing&cdn=sports&tm=67&gps=104_4_791_562&f=00&tt=14&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//lever.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/mnemonics.html

http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-o/cgaux/Publications/Manuals/boatcrew/

Sail trim
http://www.psyberspace.com.au/BrassMonkey/numain.htm

Repairs and other stuff

http://www.nsc.ca/nsc_library/techtalk/techtalk.htm

http://www.boatus.com/howto/howto_lib.htm

That ought to keep you busy

[mbd]

A couple more:

Info:
http://www.sailingusa.info/keelboat.htm

Link to link of links:
http://boat-links.com/boatlink.html

Free GPS Software:
http://www.easygps.com/default.asp

More Maintenance/Improvement Sites:
http://www.tritonclass.org/mir/mirindex.htm
http://www.cncphotoalbum.com/doityourself/

[Rico]

I will fill in the blanks shortly...

Celestial Navigation:

http://www.celestialnavigation.net/index.html
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/celnavtable.php
http://www.starpath.com/celestial/celestial_title.htm

Weather & Tides:


Old Boats:


Suppliers:
General
http://www.defender.com/
http://www.jamestowndistributors.com

General / used stuff/ Sails
http://www.cast-aways.com/

http://www.minneysyachtsurplus.com/

http://www.baconsails.com/index.html

[Tim Mertinooke]

For the weather nerd who relishes in superlatives:
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
 
A very nice sail calculator for viewing and comparing boat statistics:
http://www.image-ination.com/sailcalc.html
 
To see a beautiful livaboard cruiser:
http://tinyurl.com/2wxnu2

[Tim Mertinooke]

Here is a very handy link to a Pdf. file that shows many mainsail logos for different manufacturers. Print it out and keep a copy onboard.  Unfotunately the Ariel and Commmander were not listed, but the Triton and Ensign were as well as the basic Pearson logo.  I find it hard to believe that a historically significant boat with 400+ hulls produced doesn't make the list.
 
http://www.msogphotosite.com/MSOG/pdfpage/mslogo.pdf

[mbd]

I ran across this page while looking for ladders.

Info page on projects and other stuff:
Bosun Supplies Knowledge Page

I've never used them, but it seems like a decent outfit.