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'Publications' opens a dropdown menu with free downloads: Planning
Guides,
Sight Reduction Tables and Pilots (Sailing Directions Enroute) a.o.
Sailing Directions Enroute (Pilots) are professional editions in
.pdf format.
Basically aimed at the professional merchant navy, they do contain
invaluable
data and information for the serious sailor. Destinations 'off-the-beaten-track'
-
Lybia, Egypt, Algerya or Tunisia - are covered in great detail.
Corrections and updates are included through PDU files (Publication
Data Updates)
which are executed during initial installation.
- Pub. 131 Western Mediterranean
- Pub. 132 Eastern Mediterranean
- Pub. 141 Scotland
- Pub. 142 Ireland and West Coast of England
- Pub. 191 English Channel
- Pub. 182 North and West Coast of Norway
- Pub. 140 North Atlantic, Baltic Sea, North Sea, and the Mediterranean
Sea
(Planning Guide)
- ...
nga.mil/portal
On the same URI also 'The American Practical Navigator' ("Bowditch").
The Magnum Opus on navigation is updated and revised including ARPA,
ECDIS,
GMDSS, SOLAS, etc ...
wwp.greenwichmeantime.com
Wold Time - GMT - Time in every Time Zone
www.navcen.uscg.gov
USCG Navigation Center
www.nga.mil
WinZip archive file with nautical calculators: orthodrome, loxodrome, vertex, DR, sailings, etc...
www.tecepe.com.br/cgi-win/cgiasvis.exe
Online Star Finder
Nautical Charts
shipplotter.co.uk
ShipPlotter displays complete information about ships that are within VHF range
of your position using the Universal Automatic Identification System (AIS).
Great freeware.
www.sping.com/seaclear/
Seaclear II, the freeware program to use with raster format nautical
charts.
www.openecdis.org
"The Open ECDIS Forum (OEF) is dedicated to the development
of Electronic Chart
Display and Information Systems (ECDIS). It aims to the vision of
a maritime
Geographic Information System (GIS) that supports navigation, environmental
control
and vessel traffic services".
Nothing but AAA+ here on the open-source philosophy. An ECDIS with
free access,
based on the knowledge, expertise and contributions of the worldwide
salty-dogs-ICT community.
mapserver.maptech.com/homepage/index.cfm
Mapserver
www.starpath.com
Commercial website with free downloads
www.tidesend.com
Cheap paper NOAA Charts in Portfolios with printing on demand
www.rccpf.org.uk/index.htm
Online Passage Planning Guide for the British Isles and the Channel
www.digwave.com
Visual Passage Planner 2
www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/index.html
The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online. Find the coordinates
of any
location on his planet.
www.imray.com
Imray Nautical Charts and Pilots: commercial website
www.allweathercharts.co.uk
Stanford Charts: commercial website
Simulation software
GALILEO, GLONASS, BEIDOU and GPS
Paper about the
actual status and future of European, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and American
orbital navigational systems in space
Communication
www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/
DIY WOKTENNA, a cheap high-performance homebuilt WIFI-antenna
my.opera.com/community/
The very best user agent
www.amsat.com
Satellite communication using HAM Radio
www.sailmail.com
Email Service over HF SSB Radio
www.mmsn.org
The Maritime Mobile Service Network
www.bluewater.de/ham-nets.htm
Worldwide HAM-frequencies and networks
www.mrx.com.au
Continuous Wave or CW (Morse Code) tutor
www.hfradio.com
HF Radio On Board: Marine Communication Solutions for Everyone,
Everywhere
www.mayaparadise.com/mmfreq1.htm
HAM Mobile Maritime Nets
www.bruneibay.net/bbradio
Bruney Bay Radio and its HF-SSB radio voice and e-mail service in
the NW-part
of the Indian Ocean, the Pacific and Asia
www.cruiser.co.za/radionet.asp
Maritime Mobile Radio Nets for cruising sailors
lipas.uwasa.fi/
Ionosferic HF propagation analysis and forecast
www.mscan.nl
MsScan Meteo with a trial-version
www.hffax.de
Real-time reception of weather information
www.dxsoft.com
Digital modes for HF-Transceivers, modems and PC.
Trial-versions in download.
www.iridium.com
Satellite Telephone, one system, globally
www.thuraya.com
Maritime Satellite Solutions
cybercaptive.com
De Cybercafe Search Engine
Meteo
Caution: The internet as such is not an integral
part of the Maritime Safety Information System and should never
be relied upon as the only means to obtain
the latest forecast and warning information.
Access to Met services may be interrupted or delayed from time
to time, updates may also be delayed.
Please refer to GMDSS services, INMARSAT SafetyNET or international
NAVTEX for the latest information. When using these web pages,
always check that the page on your screen is not from your
cache.
Use the Refresh or Reload button if in any doubt. |
Bracknell
Animated Bracknell weather fax charts
www.meto.gov.uk
The Shipping Forecast
USAF Sembach
Operational Weather Squadron
www.grib.us
Grib Files using Ugrib (for Win). Downloads and an interesting forum.
GRIBVIEWERS
| Belgium - Koninklijk Meteorologisch
Instituut - Nederlands/Frans/Duit s/Engels |
| Denmark - Danmarks
Meteorologiske Institut (DMI) - Danish/English |
| ECMWF - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
| Germany - Deutscher Wetterdienst
(DWD) - German/English |
| France
- Météo-France - French |
| United Kingdom
- The Met.Office - English |
| Greece
- Hellenic National Meteorological Service - Greek/English |
| Italy - Ufficio Generale
per la Meteorologia dell' Aeronautica Militare - Italian |
| The Netherlands - Koninklijk
Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI) - Dutch/English |
| Norway - Det norske
meteorologiske institutt (DNMI) - Norwegian/English |
| Portugal
- Instituto de Meterologia (IM) - Portuguese/English |
| Russia - Geostationary
Operational Meteorological Satellite (GOMS) |
| Spain - Instituto Nacional
de Meteorología (INM) - Spanish |
| Sweden - Sveriges meteorologiska
och hydorlogiska institut (SMHI) - Swedish/English |
| Turkey - Devlet Meteoroloji
Isleri Genel Müdürlügü - Turkish/English/German |
| Tunisia - MeteoTunisie - French |
| US - National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) |
| WMO - World Meteorological Organization |
Safety
www.iccwbo.org/iccffhg/index.html
Weekly Piracy Reports from the ICC
cruisenews.net/db/pagetemplate.php?cat_id=52
Seamanship and Sailing Skills
Harbours and Ports
www.portinfo.co.uk
Shipping Guides are a world class port information provider for shipping
personnel across the globe
www.eastcoastrivers.com
Nautical information about the English East Coast Rivers
www.hha.co.uk
Harwich Haven Authority online.
portfocus.com
Search ports all over the world
www.british-waterways.com
This URI gives detailed information about 2000 km of British canals
and rivers
www.marine-info.com/minfo/po/poindex.htm
www.marine-info.com/minfo/sp/spindex.htm
Indexes of Portugese and Spanish harbours
www.portfocus.com/norway
Links to Norwegian harbours
Cruising and Adventure
www.cruisersforum
Cruising boats, Cruising People, Cruising Answers
www.cruisingworld.com
Blogs and galleries of the well-known american sailing magazine
www.aroundinten.com
A race around the world in 10 feet yachts. This race will start on the 10th January 2009 in the Bahamas.
The competitors can take their own route but have to stop at the ports of Panama, Darwin and Cape Town.
The finish is back in the Bahamas. The only price is beating the 1987 record of Serge Testa.
www.nehalinnia.be
Website of Eric and Kaat on their way from Nieuwpoort (BE) to Greece.
Their sailing yacht is a rebuild Fellowship 27.
www.inthewakeofthebelgica.com
In the wake of Belgian's greatest polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache,
sailing yacht Euronav Belgica skipped by Michel Tordoir leaves Belgium
on september 16th 2007 towards Antarctica.
www.sailtraining.be/
A williwaw is a strong catabatic wind blowing fiercely in moutainous regions towards the sea and is very common in
in the Straits of Magellan
(Chili/Argentina) and the Aleutans (Alaska).
'Williwaw' is also the name of the ketch which which owner/skipper Willy de Roos
sailed the Northwest Passage in 1977 -79, mostly solo.
Willy De Roos, a world-famous sailor and polar explorer, also a HAM-radio amateur
(ex ON8RP en VK9XR) passed away on august 4th 2008 at the age of 85 years.
An interview with de Roos shortly after accomplishing this extraordinary polar expedition.
'Williwaw' is now one of the flagships of the STAB, Sail Training Association Belgium.
www.noonsite.com
The global site for cruising sailors
www.go.to/spitsbergen
Svalbard (Spitsbergen) at the pace of the reindeer
www.taraexpeditions.org/site/index.php?page=tara_boat
Spectacular aluminium maxi sailing yacht for the Arctic and Antarctic
regions
www.69nord.com/english/cruise.htm
Same as previous URI
www.sailafrica.steerage.co.za/entrypage.htm
Passage Planning Around South Africa www.nationalgeographic.com/travel
National Geographic Travel Guides
www.trans-ocean.org/english.htm
Trans Ocean E.V. Verein, a German organisation for the cruising
yachtsmen
www.cruiser.co.za/faq.asp
FAQ and Cruising Dictionary
www.cruising.org.uk
Cruising Association
Equipment & Technicals
www.hollandwindvane.com
Formerly know as 'Bouvaan', this is truly one of the best (and cheapest) DIY windpilots.
Buy in a kit or ready-to-sail version. See circumnavigators at work using the Holland Wind Vane.
www.cruisingworld.com
Self Steering with no strings attached
www.solarmarinelights.com
Solar energy and the use of LED's
www.ecobusinesslinks.com/solar_panels.htm
Solar panels are still much too expensive. When is the 1 EURO/1
Watt breakthrough
finally coming ?
www.westlawn.edu/student_center/marine_websites.asp
Westlawn Institute of Marine Technology with interesting links
towards CADCAM-systems for boat design
www.hksailmakers.com
Hong Kong Sailmakers. They claim to be the cheapest sailmakers on
earth.
www.lobsterprawnandcrab.com
Collapsible lobster, prawn and crab pots
Design and Construction
www.tielsa.info
Tielsa, a steel racer from the 1977/78 Whitbread Round the World Race.
Also info on the Suncoast yachts from Jachtwerf "Jachtbouw Noord Nederland".
caroffduflos.free.fr/
Naval architect Caroff from the famous Chatam-series of steel yachts for circumnavigators.
www.bateau.com
Boat Plans to download
www.marinecomposites.com
Everything on the use of marine composites
www.yachtindustry.com
The industry's website
www.dixdesign.com/38didi.htm
South-African yacht designer Dudley Dix and his famous
'Black Cat' cruiser-racer
www.dixdesign.com/links4.htm
More interesting projects of the same guy
Engines
www.econetbvba.be
Your car and boat running on PPOs ?
Belgian-based firm specialising in the conversion (hybrid system implant)
of diesel engines into PPO (Pure Plant Oil) driven engines.
The technology is readily available. Conversion is easy and the
switching between the two systems is automatic.
Besides, all biofuels are not the same as Pure Plant Oils.
boatdiesel.com
Maintenance, troubleshooting, problemsolving, ...
www.volvo.com/volvopenta/
Volvo Penta
Motor Boat
www.powerboatmag.com
Powerboat Magazine
www.trawlerworld.com
Stories
Tall Ships
www.eendracht.nl
www.oosterschelde.nl
www.swanfanmakkum.nl
www.schoonerman.com
www.european-maritime-heritage.org
www.fky.org
Freudenkreis Klassische Yachten
www.grand-voilier.com/
www.jclassyachts.com
Shamrock V, Endeavour, Ranger, Cambria and Velsheda,
'the most beautiful yachts in het world'
www.maritime-heritage.net
Races
www.americascup.com
America's Cup - The Official Site
www.aroundinten.com
A race around the world in 10 feet yachts. This race will start on the 10th January 2009 in the Bahamas.
The competitors can take their own route but have to stop at the ports of Panama, Darwin and Cape Town.
The finish is back in the Bahamas. The only price is beating the 1987 record of Serge Testa.
www.cowesweek.co.uk
Cowes Week
www.azab.co.uk
Falmouth to Açores and back
www.routedurhum.org
Route du Rhum
www.tourvoile.fr
Tour de France à la Voile
www.volvooceanrace.org
The Volvo Ocean Race
www.vendeeglobe.fr
Vendée Globe
www.kielerwoche.de
Kieler Woche
www.classemini.com
Mini Transat
www.kustzeilers.nl/Driehoek/Driehoek.html
Den Helder via Orkneys to Norway and back
Government
www.sectoria.com/
Norwegian website (ENG) with a handy STCW '95 wizard. Fill out the
query form
and the program will generate all relevant and compulsory STCW '95
certification.
www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mcga-home
British Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA)
www.imo.org
The United Nations International Maritime Organisation
Boat Shows
www.belgianboatshow.be
Belgian Boatshow
www.hiswa.nl
Hiswa Portal
www4.boot-online.de
Boot Düsseldorf
www.showmanagement.com/
Fort Lauderdale International Boatshow
www.showmanagement.com/
St. Petersburg Boat Show
www.showmanagement.com
Annual Palm Beach Boat Show
www.hamburg-messe.de
Internationale Bootsausstellung Hamburg
www.salonnautiqueparis.com/
Salon Nautique de Paris
www.southhamptonboatshow.com/
Southampton Boat Show
www.nauticexpo.com/
The virtual Boat Show
Literature and Media
www.oceannavigator.com
The online resource for the offshore sailor
www.regattatime.nl
'The Sailing Channel'
www.ybw.com
Yachting Monthly
www.pbo.co.uk
Practical Boat Owner, Britain's biggest selling yachting magazine
www.yachtsandyachting.com
marinedirectory.ybw.com/
Yachting and Boating World Website
Photography
www.umapress.com
www.beken.co.uk
Beken of Cowes, a 'Master of Marine Photography'
www.francopace.com
Very Italian
www.rick-tomlinson.com
America's Cup and The Volvo Ocean Race
www.plisson.com
Philippe and Guillaume Plisson
www.pixsail.com
Database with mostly public domain photographs
www.oceanimages.com
British Photo Agency
www.nyip.com
The New York Institute of Photography
Portals
www.zeilen.opzijnbest.nl
A versatile link base system www.isail.com
Portal
www.uksail.com/index.htm
Who's who and what's what in the UK
www.boat-links.com
The Mother of all Maritime Links
www.saltwaterclassics.com
Saltwater Classics
Buy/Sell a Boat
www.bootkoop.be
De 24/7 Online Buy/Sell/Rent for:
Sailing Yachts - Powerboats - Motor Boats - Motorsailors - Multihulls
Dinghies - Traditional Boats - Inflatables (RIB) - Tenders - Speedboats
Sport fishing boats - (ex-) Merchant Navy Ships
Trailers - Engines - Moorings and Real Estate - Other
www.botenbank.nl
www.bootkoop.be
www.botentekoop.nl/
boottekoop.bootnederland.nl/
www.botenoutlet.nl/
www.annoncesbateau.com/
www.monbateau.com/
www.bateaux-occasion.net/
www.boatsforsale.co.uk
Environmental Issues
www.wasnoten.be
The dried fruit of Ritha (soapnut tree - Sapindus Mukorossi Gaertn)
is the most valuable
part of the plant. Its fleshy portion contains saponin, which is
an excellent substitute for
washing powders, soap or detergents and is therefor used a such.
No chemicals needed any more !!!
www.econetbvba.be
Belgian-based firm specialising in the conversion (hybrid system implant)
of diesel engines into PPO (Pure Plant Oil) driven engines.
The technology is readily available. Conversion is easy and the
switching between the two systems is automatic.
Besides, all biofuels are not the same as Pure Plant Oils.
www.ppo.be
Pure Plant Oil. Jatropha-oil and canola-oil as sustainable alternatives for kerosene and diesel.
It can be done. Despite all the controversy powered by ill-informed agro-economists.
And without putting a claim on world food production.
www.ebio.org
eBIO, the voice of the EU bioethanol fuel industry
globallast.imo.org
The introduction of invasive marine species into new environments by
ships’ ballast water, attached to ships’ hulls and via other vectors has been
identified as one of the four greatest threats to the world’s oceans.
The other three are land-based sources of marine pollution,
overexploitation of living marine resources and
physical alteration/destruction of marine habitat.
reefgis.reefbase.org/mapper.asp
The Coral Reef Interactive mapserver
www.seashepherd.org
Defend - Conserve - Protect
www.greenpeace.org/belgium
Greenpeace Belgium www.greenpeace.nl
Greenpeace Nederland
www.grida.no
Up-to-date information on environmental issues
www.foe-scotland.org.uk/press/pr20040101.html
www.raincoastresearch.org/salmon-farming.htm
www.wwf.org.uk/news/scotland/n_0000000578.asp
Salmon farming is OK ??????????
www.eurocontrol.int/environment/public/standard_page/env_issues.html
Environmental issues for Aviation
Checkup : 11/27/2009 | 
