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Our Sailing Boats
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Portsmouth '98 | A few photos from The International Festival of the Sea at Portsmouth. |
Links | To Organisations |
Maritime and Coastguard Agency | This is the UK Coastguard site. Interesting in itself, but also with many useful links. |
RNLI | The Royal National Lifeboat Institute. Our national lifeboat service, funded entirely by charity. Send them some money. |
NFSS | The National Fedaration of Sailing Schools. |
BMIF | The British Marine Industries Federation |
RYA | The Royal Yachting Association. Supporting the interests of yacht and boat owners throughout the UK. |
Links | To Marine Data sites |
Sailinks | Data Site. |
Met
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Weather Forecast |
Meteorological Office and Weather Forecasts. |
Weather Online UK
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UK weather, Ireland weather and climate information. Often better than Met Office. |
metcheck.com/UK/
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UK weather. Often better than Met Office. |
XCWeather
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UK wind and weather. Often better than Met Office. |
A really reliable forecast
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Dirty days hath September
April June and November From January until May The rain it raineth every day All the rest have thirty-one Without a blessed gleam of sun And if any of them had two-and-thirty They'd be just as wet and twice as dirty. |
Links | To Magazines |
CB | Classic Boat. |
YM | Yachting Monthly |
PBO | Practical Boat Owner. |
Links | To Software |
PC Maritime | Windows navigation and marine education software. This plotter/planner is a bit quirky, but seems to me far better than most at the price. It does proper planning with wind and tide, and even allows your own polar diagram for sail performance. (Hm, I must try this under Wine on Linux) |
Xtide | X-Window System based Tide calculator. Sadly now reduced abilities due to UK tide copyright issues. |
WXTide32 | Similar for Windows. |
New Wave Systems | The Nautilus Boat design system. |
Links | Misc. |
The Rowing Service | Rachael Quarrell's Really rather good rowing website. |