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Getting Online |
Wifi, broadband internet providers |
| Marinas |
Links to all
the marinas we visited |
| Weather
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Our main source of weather was the Met Office, select the logo for their home page, or click the direct links for Shipping Forecast, Inshore Waters Forecast, Animated synoptic chart |
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NDBC provides up to the hour live data from weather buoys situated around the country. Select the logo for their home page or go straight to data from Sandettie, Greenwich, or Channel lightships |
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Online weather is a good source of longer range forecasts, covering each of the UK shipping areas as well as international waters |
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Meteo France is the equivalent of our Met Office. This link takes you straight to their maritime forecasts |
| Frank Singleton's Weather Site for Sailing | Cruising Association member, Frank Singleton, maintains a website for yachtsmen with advice on weather and links to other useful sites |
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Navigation |
The Admiralty provide an easy to use searchable database of all their Notices to Mariners which we referred to regularly to keep paper charts up to date |
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Easytide is a free tidal prediction service from UKHO giving tide times and height as well as tidal curves for up to 7 days ahead |
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Chart corrections for the French range of charts from SHOM |
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And the same thing for charts from the Dutch Hydographic office - weekly lists, and in Dutch! |
| Travel Ferry, Rail and Coach information and online booking links |
We planned the cruise to regularly pass ferry terminals and budget airports to facilitate crew changes |
Organisations
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Cruising Association, we found their library and lectures on different cruising areas most useful |
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Yachting and Boating World includes discussion forums and links to boating resources |
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Nautical Data Ltd publish the Macmillan Reeds Almanac and the Cruising Companions. A useful place to look for pilot guides, along with updates and corrections |
| BookFinder.com The Open Marketplace for Books Online |
For hard-to-find or out of print books |
