Sailing Related Links (Updated: December 2011)
Sailor's Forums:
Triton
Discussion Board for owners and fans of Pearson Triton sailboats
The Plastic
Classic Forum discussing and repairing classic fiberglass sailboats
SSCA Discussion
Board from the Seven Seas Cruising Association
SailFar.net Small boats for long
voyages
World-Cruising
Forum
Low
Cost Voyaging Forum
Sailboat Owners Forum
Cruiser Log
Forum
Cruisers Forum
Sailing Magazine Sites:
Good Old Boat
Maintaining and sailing classic fiberglass boats
Cruising Destinations and Reference Sites:
World
Cruising and Sailing Wiki
Noonsite Worldwide cruising destinations information
Tide
Almanac For US East, West and Gulf Coasts
Pearson Triton Sites:
Alberg Sailboats
info on all Carl Alberg designed sailboats
National Triton Association promoting
the Triton class
Glissando Extensive Triton restoration info
Dasein Triton
#668 trip logs and projects
1960 Triton #158 Kaholee Another
Triton restoration in progress
Pajaro Web Travels and
modifications on Triton #399
Triton #680 Refit
Boat Designs and Projects:
Simplicity
Boats David Beede's site on building small sailboats and dinghies
Sheet-To-Tiller Self
Steering explained
Windvane
Forum Design, construction and use of self-steering gear
How to Scull
a Boat Article from Wooden Boat, June 1991
How to Build a
Sculling Oar Article by Oar Club founder Jerome Fitzgerald
Pearson
26' Ariel #338 refit thread - details an extensive refit
Bristol 27 Extensive refit
of the B27 Wanderer
Far Reach
Voyages Detailed and innovative modifications on a Cape Dory 36
Dinghies to Build
B&B
Yacht Designs the Catspaw line of dinghies to build yourself
Allspice
Six 6' dinghy for the pocket cruiser
Nestor
8' and 10' nesting dinghies
Apple Pie
free plans of 7' dinghy
Building an 8 1/2' version of Danny
Greene's Chameleon 10' nesting dinghy
Marine Equipment Resources:
Sail
Trailers custom made sailboat trailers
Cruising Yacht
Services consulting and fitting out sailboats for offshore
McMaster-Carr source for
hard to find parts for any projects
Jamestown
Distributors marine supplies
We are dealers for the following quality
sailboat equipment:
Mack Sails quality US made
sails
Garhauer Marine
sailboat deck hardware.
Sailing Services rigging and sailboat hardware experts
Norvane
windvane self-steering system
Other Sailing Organizations and Reference Info:
Alberg
30 forum
Joshua
Slocum Society Inspired by the first man to sail alone
around the world
Pearson
Ariel Association Forum
Cape Dory Sailboat
Owners Association and Forum
F-boats Forum
For Ian Farrier designed folding trimarans
SailboatData.com
For info and data on hundreds of sailboat designs.
Maritime Weather Sites:
PassageWeather
wind, wave and weather forecasts for sailors
Grib weather data charts
Weather Buoys Data page
US
National Weather Service Marine Forecasts by clicking on map links
USCG HF
Radio Frequency Schedule
Atlantic and Pacific text forecasts from the NWS
Marine Radio Nets and Radio Links
(some nets provide weather forecasts)
Weather
Online Sailing
page forecasts in animated pilot chart format
National Hurricane Center Hurricane forecasts, analyses and satellite
images
Yearly
Tropical Storm Tracks
Beaufort
Wind Scale
Maps and Charts:
Coastal
Explorer
free electronic reader for raster
charts
NOAA US Electronic
Charts free download of vector or raster
Atlas
of Pilot Charts download free charts of average winds and currents
Ocean Dots Atlas of the
worlds small islands
Bellingham
Charts for low-cost, full-size photocopies of worldwide charts
Cruising Homepages:
Sailing
Salsa around the world in an Alberg 30 - begun March 2008
Scott's
Boat Pages Books, articles, voyages, Tiki 26 construction blog
In
the Present Sea Writings from adventurer author Webb Chiles
Other Sites:
Online Conversion
Calculator
Free Online Cruising Books:
The Voyage of the Liberdade,
by Joshua Slocum (1890)
Sailing Alone Around the World,
by Joshua Slocum (1900)
Jean Gau's Atom from Chapter 23
of The Circumnavigators by Don Holm
Webb Chiles
Open Boat Voyages and more
Confessions
of a Long-Distance Sailor, by Paul Lutus. Circumnavigation in a 31-footer
Other Free Online Reference Books:
Where
There is no Doctor A village health care handbook and other health-related
titles. I bought the paper
version to keep aboard.
Odds and Ends:
The
Paranoia Net! A humorous look at safety and security on the SSB
Marine
Waypoints and SeaTalk
nautical dictionaries
Atom's Sailing Videos:
Atom
Voyages - A public domain website
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