Links to web sites of
interest
Weather
Forecast
For the latest Met Office offshore
shipping weather forecast and gale
warnings.
For the latest Met Office inshore
shipping weather forecast
- Solent Forecast
& Tides from the Portsmouth News
- Fax images +48
hours from the institute for meteorology and climate research (IMK) at
Karlsruhe University. +72
hrs +96
hrs +120
hrs
- North Atlantic weather
from HALO Iceland
- 9 day
forecast for Europe, very colourful
- Current UK weather
choose your location beware - times in EDT, UTC in
brackets
- General UK weather links
charts, satellite pictures etc
- Sources of UK weather
data
- North Sea weather
Dutch site with lots of info
- Weather at Worthing, Sussex
WebCam pictures updated every hour.
Sea conditions
- Around the UK and global
- Sea
temperature around Great Britain
TS
Mercury (HMS Gannet)
Mercury Old Boy's Association
Restoration of the HMS Gannet
Scouting
Sites
ScoutBase UK -
The UK Scout Associations web Site
http://www.scoutbase.org.uk
Hampshire Scout web Site
web http://www.scouts-hants.org.uk/
RN Recognised Sea Scouts (Navy Site)
All scouts should be able to tie knots, so this site should be of
interest! Knots
Seascout Ring
Bit of fun
Darwin Awards
Yachting
Organisations
RYA home page: Press releases, cruising
notes, addresses and lots of other details.
Southampton Water Sailing Association
Marine Safety
Agency
UK Coastguard site
RNLI official site and another from the
Isle of Wight College
Association of Sea Training
Organisations
The Jubilee Sailing Trust
Navigation
Almanac
UK Hydrographic Office
Simpson - Lawrence
Navigation calculators conversions, dipping ranges, celestial...
World (inc UK)
Coast Radio Stations
Calendar
calculate dates for years in advance
Local
Harbours
Solent
and Southern Harbours Portland to Littlehampton
Local
Marinas
Moody's Swanwick Marina
MDL Mercury Marina
Cowes
Yacht Haven site under construction
Yacht
Havens around the coast
Southsea
Marina
Local Towns with a
sailing interest
Hamble
an
tour of the Village
Portsmouth
Welcome to Portsmouth - Portsmouth Resort Guide
Flagship
Portsmouth
Cowes
Resort Guide
Poole
tourism
SouthWest
Web
Isle
of Wight Tourism - Official Guide 1997
Netguides
Isle of Wight Guide and Directory
Attractions
Naval
and Maritime Museums of Great Britain
South
West Coast Path
Lulworth
Cove
Learn To Sail
Guide to sailing
Sailing Magazines
and Publications
- Practical Boat Owner
- YBW PBO, Yachting World, Yachting
Monthly
-
Spending Money
- MarineData are a storehouse of
data of interest to sailors.
- Crew Seekers International
index
Electronics
Raytheon Home Page
manufacturers of GREAT equipment, they donated some for Stonechat
- Sartech Engineering Ltd
- Navico - Marine Electronics and
Navigational Equipment
- Marine.net
General Marine Information
- Sailing
- Telesonic Marine
Electronics also at this
site
- UK Sailing Index
-
- Brokerage
- Dale Sailing Brokerage Ltd
Boats, Powerboats, Yachts, Sailing, all in the UK
- Ancasta Boat Sales
International Yacht Brokers
Charter
- Mumbles Sailing
School
- Welcome to Sunworld
Sailing
- Conwy Yacht Charter
North Wales
-
- Chandlery, sails
and accessories
Aladdin's Cave
chandlers on the Hamble River have most boating gear and useful advice.
- Shamrock chandlery Southampton
- Cruisermart
marine mail order
- Pumpkin Marine Leisure
- Russell Simpson Marine
- MarineStore Yacht and Boat Chandlery
East Coast Chandlery Specialists
- Tinker Inflatables
- Whale water
systems, pumps etc
- Spinlock deck hardware
- Crusader sails
Yacht Services
- Kiss Marine specialist boat and
yacht repairs and service
Hamble Yacht Services the
UKs largest performace boatyard
-
Clubs and Societies
National
- Sail Training Association
Tall ships adventure
- Westerly Owners
Association
- Cruising Association
- Conference of Yacht Cruising Clubs
- Lighthouse Society of Great Britain
- Royal Institute of Navigation
Regional
- Hamwic Cruising Association
based in Southampton
- Warsash Sailing Club based on
the Hamble River, Southampton Water
- Weston Sailing Club based on
Southampton Water
- Netley Sailing Club based
on Southampton Water
- Island Sailing Club based in Cowes
-
Software
- GPS Software,
software to decode and map GPS messages
-
Events
- Tall Ships 2000
- Cowes week
- Portsmouth International Festival
of the Sea 1998
- BT Global Challenge The Official
Web Site
- Whitbread 1997-8
Newsgroups
- news:uk.rec.sailing UK sailing based
- news:rec.boats.cruising
-
Online
- sailsail.com The best site for up to
the minute boating news and info
- dinghysailing.com The coolest
site for all of a web wise dinghy sailor's needs
The Minisail Site a meeting point
for all Minisail class racing dinghy owners
Others
-
- Mark Rosenstein's
Sailing Pages have links to almost everywhere
- Steve Jones'
nautical links to almost everywhere (mostly American)
Transouth Translators Ltd.
specialist marine technical & commercial linguists