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Celestial Navigation Spreadsheets
This site provides a number of useful spreadsheets to take some of the calculation load out of reducing star sights etc. |
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RCC Pilotage Foundation
A non profit making organisation whose site provides supporting files for its RCCPF publications, and passage planning guides. |
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NOAA Marine Forecasts
Link to the home page for NOAA marine forecasts |
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Caribbean Weather
Chris Parker is 'the voice' of Caribbean weather. Started by David Jones this website has daily updates for the entire Caribbean basin. |
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Wind Guru
Worldwide wind and wave forecasts. |
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Mediterranean Weather
Doug Decker's site with useful weather resources for Med. Click on 'weather' in the tool bar. |
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Live NAVTEX WAP Site
NAVTEX decoder is an imaginitively named NAVTEX software decoder for NAVTEX transmissions. All you need is a shortwave radio and a PC to begin decoding signals yourself. I began writing the application in 2003 during a period of underemployment to de |
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Enroute Sailing Directions and Sailing Directions, Planning Guides
The United States NG-IA offers on-line all the Enroute Sailing Directions and Sailing Directions, Planning Guides, all of them in .pdf format. One can download what one needs for later reference aboard |
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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Charts
USA's National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is in the process of uploading for Web access all the ocean's Pilot Charts; These are downloadable on payment by credit card. |
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Noonsite: Planning an offshore voyage anywhere in the world. http://www.noonsite.com
Noonsite is a website, sponsored by Jimmy Cornell, for sailors planning an offshore voyage anywhere in the world. Information is currently held on 191 countries and 1519 ports. |
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Downloadable Raster Charts for USA
For those members cruising USA waters who want current electronic raster charts of all USA waters, they can download these ENC charts without cost and will find them supported by a wide range of navigation software products. |
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The Global Site for Cruising Yachts.(a British Site) http://www.onpassage.com/
Covers: Alternative Energy, Wind generators, shaft generators, water generators, Buying Index, Everything from a chart to a yacht, Country infomation, Embassies, advisories, etc., HF Radio, Email, mail forwarding, weather fax, communication systems |
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What Forecast to Use, http://www.franksweather.co.uk
This page is intended to be a quick guide to what forecasts can be used for different types of sailing. It gives a one stop listing of forecasts that are appropriate. It is primarily concerned with Western Europe and the Med. |
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Hadley Centre for Climate prediction
includes historical tracks of tropical cyclones |
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US Met Site covering El Nino. http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/lanina/
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Australian Met Site covering El Nino.http://www.vision.net.au/~daly/elnino.htm
Search for El Nino within this site |
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Fleet Weather Center - Norfolk, Virginia
Good Atlantic Weather forecasts from US Military if you can afford the download time. |
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Australian national Met Site. http://www.bom.gov.au/
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US Naval Oceanography Portal
Data can be obtained for all celestial navigation bodies. This includes all data necessary for working sights out at any time. |
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German site giving free links to many key world weather information sites. http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/
A superb German site giving free links to many key world weather information sites - some of which cost money if accessed directly. |