
Sailing Links:
- VYC Preferred Merchants
- New Links from Rick Hall's Presentation at the General Meeting in Nov 2008
Craigslist, an online free want add publication: http://sandiego.craigslist.org/
Weather: San Diego Marine Information System updates every minute including current and wind at various San Diego Bay locations: http://www.sdmis.org/
National Weather Service: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?site=sgx&smap=1&textField1=32.67806&textField2=-117.09833
Weather Underground, this is my favorite weather site because of multi hour predictions, click the hour link. This location is National City, which I use for our races:
Tide Predictor, I combine this with the Weather Underground for my racing sheet. Under display type click on plot for a chart. I usually use two or three days for trending:
http://tbone.biol.sc.edu/tide/tideshow.cgi?site=National+City%2C+San+Diego+Bay&units=f
Sailing Anarchy is a great sailing site, not anywhere close to politically correct, but has many articles, videos, and current information about sailing. As Kevin said, they don’t like Macgregor’s but that’s not the point of the site. I look here first for real sailing information and discussion. A great Dennis Conner interview is on it now: http://www.sailinganarchy.com/index_page1.php
Sailing Simulators: http://www.poseysail.com/
Animated Knots: http://www.animatedknots.com/
NADA Used Sailboat Prices: http://www.nadaguides.com
US Power Squadrons - Boating education: http://www.usps.org
US Sailing - Racing Rules & Podcast: http://www.ussailing.org
Intro to sailing and intro to racing: http://www.sailingcourse.com/sailing.htm
International Order of the Blue Gavel: http://www.iobg.org
YouTube (Yes, not just for the kids!): http://www.youtube.com
Good keywords to search on within YouTube:
Sailing Racing Rules
Tying knots
San Diego Maritime Museum: http://www.sdmaritime.org
- Distress Call / "MAYDAY" Guidelines: CLICK HERE
General Sailing Links:
- BOATS IN BAGS
- Boat U.S. Macgregor Forum
- California Department of Boating & Waterways - lots of good links & free publications here
- Don Robertson's Marine Marketplace - lots of good stuff here
- IDASAILOR MARINE - MacGregor/Venture/Hunter Rudders
- Complete Guide to Knots
- MacGregorOwners.Com
- Charter a MacGregor in Vancouver WA
- Charter a MacGregor in the Bahamas
- MAPTECH MAP SERVER
- Mariner's Guide - mostly East Coast stuff
- The Sailing Index - good all-around info
- The Sailing Page - lots of sailing links
- San Diego Sailing.Com
- SAILjazz - online sailing forum
- SailCare - get your sails reconditioned!
- Sail-the-Net.com - sailing resources
- Sailor's Choice
- SailRite - Sew your own sails, bags, biminis!
- Small Craft Advisor Magazine
- Southern California Boaters Guide - This guide is GREAT for locating and getting around the different marina's in Southern California !
- Suzuki "Li'l Kickers" - interesting motor stuff
- Trailer Laws by State - good info
- Tuning a fractionally rigged sailboat - from Trailer Sailor