Friends doing interesting cruising
www.sunstonesailing.com Tom & Vicky Jackson, S/V Sunstone
www.inthepresentsea.com Webb Chiles,S/V Hawke
www.handsacrossthesea.net TL and Harriet, who have just built a new
Catamaran in Brazil
www.morganscloud.com John Harries & Phyllis Nickel, S/V Morgan's Cloud
www.LandLPardey.com Lin & Larry Pardey, S/V Taleisin
www.yachtfiona.com Eric Forsyth, S/V Fiona
www.taonui.com Tony Gooch, S/V Taonui
www.svsarah.com/Whoosh/WhooshSection.htm Jack & Patricia Tyler, S/V
Whoosh
www.esmeralde.net Bruce & Dorsey Beard, S/V ESMERALDE
www.oyster56.com Bradley Rosenberg & Kathy Clark, S/V Shear Madness
www.setsail.com Steve & Linda Dashew, M/V Windhorse
www.billybudd.info/ Our good friends Clive & Laila running the Oyster 72 BillyBudd (click on the
"Billy Budd" on the first page)
www.enezacko.com/Our friends Ellen & Ed, on a Norsea 27
www.wanderingalbatross.org/ Gary and Kirstin doing useful high latitude
cruising
http://jakatan.com/jakatan_012.htm Nice website about a custom boat being
built. This specific page should be read by anyone thinking about building a custom design.
www.rontrossbach.com Ron Trossbach, M/V Sunneshine
Sailing Clubs oriented toward Offshore Cruising Sailors
www.cruisingclub.org The Cruising Club of America
www.ssca.org The Seven Seas Cruising Association
www.oceancruisingclub.org The Ocean Cruising Club
www.sailing.org/specialregs/
International Sailing Federation, specifically links to their "Offshore special regulations", which are a very
useful guide for outfitting any offshore boat.
http://www.rccpf.org.uk/ppg/map_pages/world_map.htm Quite good
passage planning website from the RCC
Companies of specific interest for Cruisers
Note we do not have any financial arrangements or other interests in any the products mentioned here!
www.saildocs.com Source of free weather GRIBs
www.sailmail.com Non-profit providing e-mail over SSB services
www.panbo.com/ A marine
electronics weblog with bluntly honest fact-based tests
www.equipped.org/ All
sorts of (pretty much unbiased) survival information
http://image-ination.com/sailcalc.html a calculator for all sort of boat ratios, optimal prop sizes, etc
www.healthcareinternational.com/international-insurance-products.php Company
selling reasonably priced health insurance tailored to cruising sailors
www.wxtide32.comExcellent free worldwide tides and currents program
www.Noonsite.com Information on
cruising locations
www.cruiserlog.com/wiki/index.php?title=Cruising_and_Sailing_Wiki_by_CruiserLog A wiki with more in depth information about cruising locations than Noonsite
www.expeditionsail.com Hamish &
Kate Laird, S/V Seal, Charters to high latitude locations
www.mahina.com John Neil & Amanda Swan,
S/V Mahina Tiare III, offshore instruction while passage-making
www.tooluka.nl/verhalen.php?id=18&taal=UK&code=ZM Eef and Ken doing
high latitude charters
www.pdfpad.com/flagsPrint free flags of the world - useful for making courtesy flags
www.chilefarmholidays.com Ian and Maggy Staples, cruisers who settled in on
a farm in Chile and have holiday cottages available
www.globalmarinenet.net We use
their XGate product for compression on our Iridium phone. They also have
various weather products
www.captdrdave.com
David W. LaVigne, D.V.M., aboard S/V Fidelis, wilderness veterinary
advice
www.nbja.org/yachtdesigners
Useful starting place if looking for a yacht designer, especially for a metal boat
http://wefax.de/ A page providing comprehensive information on weatherfax
www.mcmaster.com/ Industrial supplies of all sorts
www.primetimeshortwave.com
Worldwide English Language Shortwave broadcast schedule
http://www.bluemoment.com/downloads.html - useful download site with hard to
find engine shop manuals and other stuff
Discussion Boards
http://ssca.org/phpBB3/ SSCA sponsored board
www.cs-bb.com/forums/CSBB/index.cgi Cruising Sailor board
Weather
www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/home.htm NOAA marine weather page
http://www.passageweather.com/ pretty good passage-making weather charts
http://www.oscar.noaa.gov/datadisplay/ Shows ocean currents around
the world
http://www.accuweather.com/world-index.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0
Quick weather around the world
www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/A_brief.shtml All sorts of Atlantic weather info
at a glance
www.sailflow.com Good for
local racing wind forecasts
http://buoyweather.com/index.jsp Buoy Weather
http://www.windfinder.com/ Normal wind direction forecasts but also
a built in worldwide pilot chart
http://www.offshoreblue.com/navigation/pilot-charts.php
Downloadable pilot charts
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/index.html A variety of
information not found on other sites
http://www.boatma.com/bouy.html NOAA bouy data for east coast
www.wunderground.com/MAR/ "Weather Underground's" marine weather page
http://manati.orbit.nesdis.noaa.gov/quikscat/ "near real time" ocean wind
maps (by direct sat measurement)
www.metservice.co.nz New Zealand Met Service
www.bom.gov.au Australia Met Service
www.csus.edu/indiv/f/foxs/jour122/My%20Weather%20Sources.htm Comprehensive
links for Pacific Weather
www.worldclimate.com Tells you what the 'normal' weather almost any place
around the world
http://weather.mailasail.com/Franks-Weather/Home Useful 'how to get and use marine
weather forecasts' page
http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/gsf/ Some 'real-time' gulf stream charts
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/global_nlom32/gfs.html and some 'real
time' gulf stream current charts
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dataphod/work/trinanes/INTERFACE/index.html
real time gulf steam current model
https://www.navo.navy.mil/LIBRARY/Metoc/Atlantic/Regional+NATL/SATANAL/OFA/Color+Composite/index.html Yet another gulf stream chart. Microsoft Explorer wants to block this site
but it's ok to unblock it.
www.nlmoc.navy.mil/cgi-bin/main.pl?ocean various navy charts
www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/lanina/ page focused
on El Nino/La Nina effect
WWW.USCG.MIL/LANTAREA/IIP/HOME.HTML
USCG Ice reports
www3.sympatico.ca/hehilgen/vax498.htm Herb Hilgenberg provides daily N Atlantic weather on SSB 12359.0, starting at 2000 UTC
http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/ncep/NCEP Historical NOAA weather charts
US Government Free downloadable Marine Publication links
www.nga.mil/portal/site/maritime/ Pilot charts, sailing directions, etc.
http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/nsd/coastpilot.htm US coastal pilot books,
charts ,etc
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/
All sorts of celestial data and publications
http://www.irbs.com/bowditch/ Bowditch free on line in pdf format
www.amver.com/density.asp map which shows worldwide ship density
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
"World Fact book" from the CIA
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/ interesting site, zoom-able map of
the world showing all vessels transmitting AIS