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Boat Design Classes:
The Chalmers University of Technology Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering (Gothenburg, Sweden)
The Falmouth Centre for Marine Studies Yacht Design Correspondence Programme
The Landing School of Boatbuilding and Design (Kennebunkport, Maine)
MacNaughton Associates' Residential Yacht Design School
The Naval Architecture Program, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (Daltech)
The Ocean & Naval Architectural Engineering Program at Memorial University of Newfoundland (St. s)
Webb Institute of Naval Architecture (Private, tuition free college that offers a bachelor of science in naval architecture and marine engineering)
The Westlawn Institute Of Marine Technology (Boat design correspondence courses)
Boat Design Software:
AeroHydro (Marine design and modeling software and services)
AeroLogic (Loftsman/P airplane and hull lofting software)
AeroMarine (Tunnel boat design software)
The ASME CAD Directory (Free outdated CAD programs, from the American Society of Mechanical Engineeers, FTP)
BaseLine Technology (Boat and ship designers. Baseline II hull fairing software, free demo)
Baseline Technology's Engineering URL Database (Links to boat plans, engineering, manufacturing, drafting or software in support of these areas)
Blue Peter Marine (Hullform hull design software, including public domain obsolete version)
Carene40 and Carene50 (Hull fairing and sheet expansion programs from Robert Lainé, free evaluation copies)
Creative Systems, Inc. (GHS and BHS ship and boat stability and hydrostatics software)
DEFCAR (CAD CAM software for ship design, ship, boat and yacht construction)
Formation Design Systems (Maxsurf range of advanced computer aided design, analysis and construction software)
Gregg Carlson's Hull Designer for Windows (Chined hull design program, up to six chines, expands planks, .DXF and HPGL output. Free)
Gregg Carlson's Hulls Program, an Alternative Tutorial
Gregg Carlson's SailForm (Freeware 3-D sail visualization and design program)
Harold Ginsberg's NACA Foils for Boats & Ships (NACA4GEN shareware foil generating program)
HydroComp Inc. (Software for marine propulsion analysis, speed prediction and propeller sizing)
Mariner Kayaks (Robert Livingston's free BEARBOAT kayak design program (most suited to wood-strip construction) & Matt Broze's drag prediction spreadsheet)
Newavesys (Nautilus computer-aided boat & ship design and construction)
PlyBoats (Computer Aided Design software for the design of small boats)
Proteus Engineering (FastYacht/FastShip, FlagShip ship design software, including hullform design, structures, powering, stability, maneuvering, and cost estimating)
Rhino (NURBS modeling for Windows)
Sailcut (Sail design and plotting program from Robert Lainé, free evaluation copies)
Tri-Coastal Marine Software (AutoDock marine utility for AutoCAD, Atalanta integrated marine design and manufacture inside AutoCAD)
UIUC Airfoil Data Site (Airfoil plotting software, airfoil coordinates database, links, more)
Vacanti Yacht Design Software (Prolines)
Velocity (Software for designers for performance prediction and hull design)
Boat Plans, Kits, Designing & Designers:
16' McKenzie River Driftboat Plans and Construction Manual (From Altair Industries)
Pacific TailBoats
The Adirondack Guideboat Resource Guide
AeroMarine (Tunnel boat design books and software)
AES (Sailing yacht mast and rigging design and engineering, Auckland, New Zealand)
AES Rig Design Hints
Alucraft Boat Builders and Designers (Aluminum and steel vessels of any type and purpose, precut aluminum boat kits)
The Amateur Yacht Research Society (AYRS publications for sale)
Applegate Boatworks (Plans for taped seam plywood boats)
Arch Davis Design (Plywood/epoxy designs)
Atkin & Co.
autoboat.com (Plans for the Abaco-11 sandwich composite construction nesting outboard-powered dinghy)
The Back Yard Yacht Club (Stevenson Projects easy-build boat plans)
Barend's Boat Building (Designing small boats based on the simple mathematics of the theorem of Pythagoras and the triginometrical ratios of sine, cosine, and tangent)
B & B Yacht Designs (Canoes & kayaks, rowboats, beach cruisers, multihulls, motorboats and sailing yachts)
Bear Mountain Boat Shop (Canoe and kayak plans. Run by Ted Moores. Co-author of Canoe Craft)
The Benford Design Group
Boat Building Plans by Jeff Spira (Stitch 'n' glue and framed plywood)
Boatloft cc (Maritime engineers specializing in powered catamaran design, South Africa)
The Boat Place (Boat plans, kits)
Boat plans from Yachting Monthly (Small cruising boats by Maurice Griffiths from the UK magazine, at the Eventide Owners Association)
Bob Ames Naval Architecture, Inc. (Sailboat design services)
Bray Yacht Design and Research (Dinghies, sailboats, motorsailers and powerboats)
Brewer Designs Ltd. (Ted Brewer)
Brightwood Boat Company, LLC (Kits, plans, patterns for small wooden boats for oars, sail or motor)
Bruce Roberts Designs
By-The-Sea's Plan and Kit Sellers Listing
Carpe Diem Yacht Design (Sail & power, up to 40 meters)
The Catboat Association's List of Popular Lines & Designs
Cat Fever Inc. (Strip-planked 50' catamaran plans)
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum's Boat Plans
Chesapeake Rowing (Rowing shell kits)
Chris White Designs (Cruising multihulls)
Clark Craft (Plans and kits)
Common Sense Boats (Easy to build boats from Phil Bolger, Jerry Estes, Warren C. Bailey and others)
Compumarine (Cedar strip small craft designs for amateur builders)
Computer Design Marine (Aluminium power pleasure & workboat kits 4-20 meters)
Crab Design (Plans for easily assembled plywood sailing canoes and a proa, Austria)
C. Raymond Hunt Associates, Inc.
Curtis Schooners ("Dedicated to the design and development of schooners for the homebuilder")
Cyber-Boat (Boat kits, design, Denmark)
DataBoat International (Boat plans from several designers)
Dave Carnell's $200 Sailboat
Denis Brown Yacht Design (Sailboat designs suitable for the home builder)
Devlin Boat (Stitch and glue boat plans)
Don Hill River Boats (McKenzie River drift boat plans and kits. Eugene, Oregon)
Ducktrap Woodworking (Traditional Maine lapstrake boat plans from W. J. Simmons)
The Duckworks Boat Plan Index (An index of boats, plans, pictures, articles on the internet)
Dudley Dix Yacht Design (Fiberglass, steel, radius chine plywood boats)
DynaYacht (Designer of canting ballast twin foil (CBTF) racing sailboats)
Easy Build Kitsets (Kits for the Tri-Star 3500 sailing dinghy, New Zealand)
Ed Hortsman's Tri-Star Trimaran & Catamaran Designs
Electric Boat Plans from Jim Kerr
Electric Design (Boat plans for amateur boat builders, wooden boats, row boats, sail boats, power boats and yachts, Australia)
The F&J Sheet Metal Dinghy By Robert Taylor (Free plans in metric and imperial units)
Farrier Marine Inc. (Ian Farrier multihull designs)
Fay Marine (Steel yacht plans, & custom designs)
FCS Design (Cruising yacht designs, engineering services, design renovations)
Flounder Bay Boat Lumber (Boat kits)
Fralick Boats (Stock outboard hydroplane race boat plans)
Free Boat Design Resources On The Internet
Frenchtown Fiberglass and Marine (Small boat plans and kits, Frenchtown, Montana)
Gator Bayou Boat Works (Plans for wooden Louisiana "swamp boats")
George Buehler Yacht Design
Gerrie Warner's 12' Viking Canoe Plans
GLEN-L Marine (Boat plans, kits, and supplies)
Graham Radford Yacht Design (Sailing yachts)
Great Encouragement to Boatwrights (Boat plan sources)
Green Valley Boat Works ( Winters canoe and kayak plans)
Greg Carlson's Folding Kayak Plans
Greg Tatman Wooden Boats (McKenzie River driftboat and rowboat plans and kits)
Groupe Finot, Architectes Navals (Cruising and racing sailboats, Mini-Transat boats)
Hamlin & Smith (Glued strip boat plans for sail and power)
Harold H. Payson & Co. ("Home of the original Instant Boats")
Hartley Trimaran Designs (Cruising sailboats)
Herb Mcleod's Boats
Home Built PVC Boat Systems (The Olsen Floatboat and its offspring)
Humberto Martinez's Yacht Design Links
I. K. MacLeod & Associates (Ships ,fishing boats and other vessels)
An Index to Jim Michalak's Newsletters and Plans
International Marine Designs (Tenders, motor launches, Essex smack yacht, Wales)
Ira Einsteen's Herring Skiff (Free plans and building instructions for a 12' stitch 'n' glue outboard skiff)
Island design (Power catamarans)
Iver C. Franzen, Naval Architect (Yachts, commercial vessels, historical vessels)
Jacques Mertens' Boat Plans Online (Plans for stitch 'n' glue boats, books and boat kits)
James Wharram Designs
JARCAT Catamaran Designs (Plywood cruising cats, some trailerable)
Jeff Schionning Multihull Designs (Sailing catamarans)
Jens Trapp and Robert Zores' Online NACA Foil Shape Generator
Jim Michalak Designs (Simple plywood boats! At the MAIB Web pages)
Jim Michalak's Boat Designs (The designer's own page)
Jim Shotwell (Boat kits and plans)
Holtrop's Boat Stuff (Boat designs and a variety of technical articles on small boats and their design)
Shuttleworth Yacht Designs Ltd. (Multihulls, power and sail)
Winters (Canoes and kayaks)
Jonathan Quinn Barnett Ltd. (Yacht designer, Seattle)
Jordan Wood Boats (Plans for small boats, cradle boats)
Jutson Yacht Design (Sydney, Australia)
The Kamm Rig High Speed Sail (High efficiency sail design for racing)
Kasten Marine Design (Steel and aluminum cruising boats, power and sail)
Kaufman Design inc. (Naval architecture, yacht design, engineering and marine expert services, 20' wooden runabout kit)
Kelsall Catamarans (18-75')
Ken Hankinson Associates (Boat plans, patterns, kits)
Kit Boats International (Large and small kit boats made of computer-cut interlocking fiberglass panels)
Kurt Hughes Sailing Designs (Catamarans and trimarans)
Kuutti Design (Aluminum sailing yacht designs, Finland)
Lasico Planimeters and Digitizers
Laurent Giles (Sailing yacht and powercraft designs)
Let a Hundred Sails Bloom (Free plans for the Egoist 5.5 meter lug-rigged singlehanded cruiser)
Lewis AquaTech (Power and sailboats)
Lidgard Yacht Design (Custom sailboats & powerboats both mono hull & multihull, Australia)
MacNaughton Associates (Yacht and commercial boat design, stock plans, kits)
Marine Concepts (Fiberglass boat design, plugs, molds, prototyping and testing)
Mark Smaalders Yacht Designs (Traditional style cruising sailboats for home builders)
Merrell Watercraft (Designs for amateur builders, including houseboats)
The Metal Boat Society ("A non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, design, and building of metal boats")
Michael Storer Boat Plans for Homebuilding (Sail, paddle and power, canoe yawls, Australian skiffs, river launches, punts, canoes)
Michael Storer Design (Lightweight, high performance wooden boats of traditional appearance for amateur construction)
Midwest Engineering (Plans for 1 and 2 man homebuilt subs, a scuba scooter, hydrophone, and underwater camcorder housing)
Mills Design (Mark Mills' medium/light displacement racing and cruising sailboat designs)
Multihulls, Catamarans, Trimarans, Sail Boats, Cruising Boats, Fishing Boats, Power Boats, Boat Plans & Yacht Design Home Page (Australia)
The Newfound Woodworks, Inc. (Strip-planked canoe, kayak and boat plans and kits)
Newport Technologies (Designers of "cutting edge aeroplanes and marine vessels")
Nigel Irens Design (Shoal draft cruising luggers, cruising cutters, power and sailing multihulls)
Nils Andersson's Sailing Designs (International Offshore Class racer, etc.)
Noah's Marine Supply (Bear Mountain canoe & kayak plans & kits)
Northwest Marine Design (Stock & custom yacht designs for the amateur & professional builder)
Northwoods Canoe Company (Wooden canoe kits, plans, by Rollin Thurlow)
The Official AYRS Page (The Amateur Yacht Research Society)
Oregon Trail Canoe Company (Cedar strip canoe kits)
Owlers' Craft (Lapstrake kit-boats and plans for home construction by Per Corel)
The PakYak Prototype (Free online plans for a 12' truly folding kayak)
Parker Marine Enterprises (Reuel Parker, custom designs and stock plans for cold-molded wood, plywood, traditional wood, aluminum and steel construction)
Patapsco Craft (Lines taking, marine architectural drawing & half hull modeling classes)
Paul Kotzebue 3D Graphics (3D graphics for boat builders and designers)
Perdido Design (Medium sized yachts and small craft)
The Phil Bolger's Boats Mailing List
Philippe Cabon Architecte Naval (Cruising and racing multihulls, dinghies, maxi-yachts & workboats)
Plans for Watercraft in the Collection of Mystic Seaport Museum
Platt Monfort's Geodesic AiroLITE Boats (Kits and plans)
Pocket Cat 18 ("The trailer sailor's catamaran," plans for a plywood cruising cat)
Pygmy Boats Inc. (Sea kayak plans)
Qivitoq and a Stich-and-Tape Kayak (Free Plywood Kayak Plans by Doug Garmon)
Rachel, A Versatile Dinghy (Stitch 'n' glue design by Mark Anderson)
Ray's River Dories, Inc. (McKenzie River drift boat plans, kits)
Redfish Custom Kayak & Canoe Company's Plans for Wood Sea Kayaks
The River's Touch (Dimensional plans and offsets for historic Oregon drift boats)
Robert H. Perry Yacht Designers Inc. (Sailing and motor Yachts, Seattle)
Robert Q. Riley Enterprises (Riley plans from Mechanix Illustrated, Popular Mechanics and Home Mechanix)
The Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA)
Sandy Pittendrigh's Montana Riverboats (Free online building instructions for a McKenzie River style drift boat, the autocad-dimensions file costs $20)
San Francisco Pelican Sailboats (Plans for all variations of Captain Short's classic, sold by Mrs. Short)
SBI Marine (Highlander and Skylark small boat plans)
The Scow (Free online design and building instructions for a 12' sailing scow, by Andrew Gibbens)
Seaboard Marine Powertrain and Equipment Design (Powertrain and equipment design and engineering)
Sea Bright Kayak (Sea kayak kits)
Seabyte New Media (Specialists in visualising naval architecture using 3D modelling, 3D animation, graphic design & digital video editing)
The Searunner Design Parnership ( Marples and Jim Brown, cats and tris, sail and power)
Seaside Small Craft (lapstrake double-paddle canoes, skiffs, and other small recreational boats, designed using computer technology)
Selway Fisher Design (Plywood and strip yachts & boats for the home & professional boatbuilder)
Shearwater Boats (Small boat, canoe, kayak plans)
Shell Boats (Kits and plans for plywood sailboats)
Ship Plans from the Smithsonian Institution (Historical and orginal plans by Chapelle, H. V. Sucher, HAMMS, more)
Shoestring Shipyard (Plans and kits for small wooden boats)
A Skiff for All Seasons: How to Build an Alaskan Skiff (Boat plans in book form by Renn Tolman)
The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
Sparkman & Stephens, Inc.
Sponberg Yacht Design (Sail, power, multihull, free standing masts)
The Spray 700 (A trailerable metal 23' version of Slocum's boat, "the minimum serious cruiser")
Stephen Baker, Yacht Designer (Ocean sailboats, "specializing in good-looking, fast, comfortable boats")
Stillwater Boats (Persuaded plywood canoe and boat plans, kits)
Stimson Marine (Plans and kits for wooden and skin-on-frame boats)
Swamp Yankee Boats (Stitch and glue canoe plans, kits)
Swan Boat Design (Ken Swan's plans & frame kits for wood rowboats, dories, sailboats, and more)
Tanton Yachts (Design, engineering and construction)
The Ted Hood Design Group
Thompson Performance Design (High performance sailboats, New Zealand)
Tom Speer's Theoretical Boat Design Page (Aerodynamics, landyacht and multihull sailboat design, hydrofoils, rigid rigs)
Tracy O'Brien Marine Design (Plywood Northwest drift boats and skiffs)
Tri-Coastal Marine Services (Yacht design, historic preservation)
Tyrone Boats (Plywood and strip canoe, boat & sailing canoe kits)
Uncle Dave's Classic Cajun Pirogue Kits
The UWB Trailerable Cruising Sailboat (Water ballasted 33' sheet plywood cutter)
Valley Woodworking (Cedar strip canoe plans)
Van de Stadt Design (Sailing yachts, Holland)
Van De Stadt Design - Australia
Velocity (Consultation on speed under sail, polars (performance predictions) for individual racing yachts or for variants still in the design stage)
Wacky Lassie (Free online plans for an instant double paddle canoe to be built and used by kids)
Warren Multihull Designs (Ted Warren)
Water Sprite Canoes (Plywood canoe kits, 7' to 19')
Wayland Marine - For Those Moved By Oars (Rowing boat kits, Bellingham, Washington)
West Tamar Wooden Boats (Boat plans from many designers, Tasmania)
Windfast Marine Racing Catamarans (High end racing and cruising multihulls, 20-120')
The Wooden Boatshop (Australian traditional and contemporary designs)
Woods Designs (Sailing catamaran plans for home and professional builders)
Working Boats (Prefix™ interlocking plywood kits for power garvey work boats, designed by Rob Humphreys, UK)
The Yacht Design Library of Al Mason
The Yacht Designers Website (With worldwide designer listing)
The Yacht Research Homepage
(Many one-design classes also offer plans and kits for sale)
Books & Other Literary Diversions:
The Adventures of Captain Robert Kelly, RN, As Related Through the Pen of Ted Temer (Electronic novels)
The A&E Horatio Hornblower Book Club
American Rivers Bibliography
Anthony Vogl's Marine Literature Page (And Lord Nelson to boot)
The Arthur Ransome Society Official Site (The Arthur Ransome Club of Japan)
Auxiliary Sail Vessel Operations (By Andy Chase of MMA)
Before the Wind Sailing Corporation (Online sailing texts, including sailing and boating magazines, links to reading lists and bookstores)
The Bent Bulkhead (Book of cartoons for the sailor)
Boat Docking (Book about close quarters maneuvering for small craft)
The Boats of Swallows and Amazons
The Breath of Angels (A true story of life and death at sea)
Broadside (Niall Kelly's nautical fiction web site)
Cap'n Carmen's Secret of the Sea (poem)
Captain Frederick Marryat (A biography)
Careers of Fictional Napoleonic Sailors
A Coastal Schooner Life on Southern New England Waters (Captain Claude S. Tucker, the Coral, and the end of an era)
Coming About: A Family Passage at Sea (A family cruises the Caribbean for nine months aboard a 34' 1966 Morgan sloop, by Susan Tyler Hitchcock)
Cruising 101: Avoiding the pitfalls of Paradise
The Cruising Association's Book Reviews
The Cruiser News Lending Library
Cruising the San Juan Islands (New editon of the cruising guide)
David Poyer (Author of sea novels, Navy fiction, diving and adventure novels)
The Dudley Pope Page
Electronic Marine Books on the 'Net
Eye on the Sea (A collection of short essays on the boating life by Mary Jane Hayes)
The Fighting Sail Chronology (With a discussion of "fighting sail" literature)
The French Naval Archaeology Collection (Modeling and research monographs & books by Jean Boudriot & Hubert Berti)
From Dream to Reality: Building your own Cruising Sailboat (Practical handbook of sailboat characteristics, outfit engineering and project management for the amateur boat builder and boat owner)
A General Bibliography of the History and Archaeology of the Ship
A Guide for the Perplexed (Translations of all "non-English" phrases in Patrick O'Brian's sea-tales)
A Guide to the Swallows & Amazons series
The Gunroom 100 (A list of the favorite books of users of the Gunroom and Searoom mailing lists)
A Gunroom Guide to Patrick O'Brian Web Resources
The G. W. Blunt White Library at Mystic Seaport
Harbors & High Seas (An atlas and geographical guide to the Aubrey-Maturin novels of Patrick O'Brian)
The Hawaiian Voyages of The Ono Jimmy (Book of the real life adventure stories of a long time Big Island resident and his friends)
The Hornblower-L Mailing List (For admirers of Horatio Hornblower)
The Hornblower TV Series Official Page
An International Bibliography ofMarine Dictionaries (In French)
The International Boating Library (Database indexing marine books, periodical articles, videos, software, and other documents, 27,000+ references)
The Island Queen: Cincinnati's Excursion Steamer
The MacGregor Page (With the text of A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe)
Dave's Marine Literature Page
Know Your Ships (Guide to shipwatching on the Great Lakes & St. Lawrence)
Lapsus Linguae (Mixed metaphors, malaprops, mistranslations, misunderstandings, and mild jokes from the Aubrey-Maturin Novels by Patrick O'Brian)
The Last Voyage of the Frisco Felucca II (SF to Hawaii in a lateen-rigged converted lifeboat)
The Last Voyage: The Story of the Schooner Third Sea (Harold Stephens' famous schooner)
Letters of Marque (A non-fiction bibliography for the classic age of fighting sail)
The Life and Work of Rafael Sabatini
The Life and Works of Herman Melville
Lobscouse and Spotted Dog (A companion cookbook to Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels)
Marina Handbooks (Northwest marina guides)
Marine Electrical Check List (A Guide to Inspecting Marine Electrical Systems, online shareware booklet)
The Mariners' Museum Research Library Catalog Search
Mark Winthrop's Richard Henry Dana Page
Marti Rijken's Book List of Sailing Adventures
Michael Dimercurio's ussdevilfish.com (The author of many submarine adventure tales)
The Nathaniel Holmes Bishop Page (With text of Four Months in a Sneak-Box & Voyage of the Paper Canoe)
The National Imagery & Mapping Agency's Online Navigation Publications
Nautical Book Reviews (Reviews of books of all types, fiction, nonfiction, cruising, how-to, etc.)
TheMarine Doggerel Page
NauticalFiction.com (A nautical fiction discussion forum and news site affiliated with Amazon.com)
The Marine Fiction List
TheMarine Non-Fiction Adventure List
Nelsonian Fiction (An essay)
The Patrick O'Brian Character Index
The Patrick O'Brian Discussion Archives (From mailing lists)
Patrick O'Brian: Frequently Asked Questions
The Patrick O'Brian Page
Patrol Craft of WW II (A history of the ships and their crews by Wm. J. Veigele)
Picot's New Zealand Charter Boat Guide
The Pirate Poetry Bibliography (At the New England Pirate Museum)
The Port-Wine Sea (A rousing parody of the Aubrey-Maturin series by Susan Wenger)
The PowerBoat Guide (Reference handbook for current and out-of-production powerboats from 26 to 83 feet)
Quick Reference Guide for the Cruising Sailor
Proto TarBoard ("An Arthur Ransome discussion forum")
The Rafael Sabatini Mailing List
Richard Bolitho Naval Fiction (A page devoted to Alexander Kent's hero)
Ron Wanttaja's Sea and SkyMarine Page (Author of The Key to Honor)
Ropeworks (A book of knots, hitches, splicing, lashing and rope making)
Sailing Promise: Around the World on a Catamaran (By Alayne & Alec Main)
Seafaring Poem of The Week (At www.killdevilhill.com)
Seafaring Poems (At www.killdevilhill.com)
The Searoom-L Mailing List (Nautical novels from the age of sail, esp. P. O'Brian's & C. S. Forester's)
Sennit -- A Great Lakes Literary Journal (Poetry, essays, fiction)
The Sharks (English translation of the epic novel by Jens Bjørneboe)
Ship Maneuvers in H.M.S. Surprise (Description and chart)
Ship-Masonry from Betina: Etymological Vocabulary of Traditional Terminology (Croatian shipbuilding vocabulary)
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea (Nonfiction adventure about the sinking of a gold-rush era steamer and the modern-day salvage of her treasure)
Shipwrecks and Other Maritime Stories ("The home page for contemporary maritime literature, journalism, writing and research." Reviews, articles and stories)
A Short Reader's Guide to the Age of Fighting Sail
A Skiff for All Seasons: How to Build an Alaskan Skiff (Boat plans in book form by Renn Tolman)
Soon's Historical Fiction Site
The Stripper's Guide to Canoe-Building (David Hazen's canoe building text)
Swallows and Amazons For Ever! (Links for Australian TARS)
Transition (Short stories, some with nautical elements, by Thomas Vince)
The Tristan Jones Home Page
The Unofficial Patrick O'Brian Reference Directory
Water Gypsies (Vancouver Island dinghy cruising stories, electronically published)
The Wheelhouse Companion (Collision avoidance regulations)
Wilderness (Rockwell Kent and Fox Island, Alaska)
W. W. Norton's Patrick O'Brian Page
The Yachtsman's Directory ("The complete nautical guide to the coasts of Spain & the Portuguese Algarve in English & Spanish")
Zvi Har'El's Jules Verne Collection
(See also Literary Links and Booksellers & Publishers)
Booksellers & Publishers:
Admiralty Marine's Used Books (Some fiction, mostly nonfiction)
The Alaska Sea Grant Bookstore
Almark & Co. (Booksellers, used hardcovers)
ALZARC Enterprises (Navigation texts)
ArgusMarine (The Wheelhouse Companion: A Guide to the Collision Regulations and Safety on the Water)
Armchair Sailor Seabooks (Rhode Island)
The Armchair Sailor, Seattle (New books)
Atlantis Technical Services (Marine technical publishers, operational and safety documentation)
The Battle of the Atlantic Bookstore
Beowulf Publishing (Publisher of the Offshore Cruising Encylopedia and other cruising books)
Bluewater Books & Charts (Cruising guides)
Boat Books Ltd. (Maritime books and magazines, Auckland, New Zealand)
Boat House Books (Publisher of hard-to-find technical books abour early steam and power boats)
The Boating Bookshop
Bolen Books (Victoria, BC. Alexander Kents and other British published new books)
Bosman & Bosman Nautische Uitgevers (A Dutch publisher specializing in nautical books, CD-ROMs, videos and pictures)
Brown, Son and Ferguson, Ltd. (Nautical publishers since 1832)
Centennial Publications (Publisher of specialty books related to classic tackle and fly fishing)
Chamasha Books ("Old, rare, out-of-print or 'just good reading' books about steam & sailing ships, salvage, hard hat diving, tugboats and all things maritime")
Columbia Trading Company (Used books, online catalog)
Compass RoseMarine Books Ltd.
Conway Maritime Press
CrawfordsMarine Books (Used books)
Databoat's Boating Book Store
Devereux Books (Publisher of books about industrial history, nautical history, engines, boats, and related subjects)
D. N. Goodchild (A small publishing house specializing in reasonably priced reprints of classic fiction and non-fiction nautical books)
Duck Trap Press (Walter J. Simmons' boatbuilding books)
Eastwind Publishing (Books on the history and lore of lightships and lighthouse tenders)
Echidna, TheMarine Book Catalog (Specializing in marine educational and technical books)
Edward J. Lefkowicz, Inc. (Rare books and manuscripts relating to the sea and its islands, and to nautical science)
First Place Books (Specializes in nautical fiction, mysteries, hypermodern and literary 1st editions)
Francis Edwards Naval & Military Department (Rare & antiquarian used books, London)
Freshwater Press Inc. (Publisher of books on the subject of waterborne Great Lakes commercial transportation)
Gail's Historical Fiction Catalog (Used books, including Bolitho and Hornblower)
Grandiosity Inc. (A military history bookstore)
The Hakluyt Society (Publisher of historical travel literature)
Heart of Oak Sea Classics (Reprints of classic Napoleonic wars era fiction and nonfiction)
Intertec Publishing (ABOS blue books, shop manuals, Clymer publications and other technical books and valuation guides)
International Marine Publishing Company's Online Book Catalog
Jean-Louis Boglio Maritime Books (New and used, Australia)
W. Doull Bookseller (Halifax's largest antiquarian bookseller, issues a nautical catalog regularly)
J. Tuttle Maritime Books (Used books)
KeenMarineProducts.Com (Discount nautical books)
Kettlewell Publishing (Intracoastal Waterway chartbooks, GPS waypoint guides, and Bahamas and Bermuda weather cards)
Lars Bruzelius' List of Maritime Publishers, Booksellers and Antiquarian Bookshops)
Lekko ITES (Books & magazines about tugs, towage and salvage)
McBooks Press (Nautical fiction reprints, including Alexander Kent's Richard Bolitho series)
MacNaughton Associates Marine Publishing
Mail Order Sources forMarine Fiction and Non-Fiction Adventures
Mainmast Maritime Books (An English specialist maritime mail-order bookseller)
Marine Media Books
Marine Publications Co. (MPC marine directories)
Maritime History Publications (Publisher operating out of Memorial University of Newfoundland)
The Maritime Page (Marine books, marine education textbooks, magazines for mariners and sailors)
Maritime Publishing Company (20th Century Merchant Shipping Books and Publications)
Martin Combs' Books on Knots and Tall Ships
MarylandMarine Sales (Charts, cruising guides, books, supplies)
Michael Friedman Publishing Group'sMarine Books
Moana Livros (Nautical books, digital books, multimedia in Portuguese, Brazil)
Nation Builder Books (New and used books, specializing in the history of business, industry, and transportation)
Nautical-Books.Com (Marine educational and technical books, charts, videos)
TheMarine Mind (New books, fiction, nonfiction, charts. Toronto)
Nautical Paradise (Online bookstore)
Noah Publications (Benjamin Mendlowitz photo books)
Northwoods Canoe Company Books (The Wood & Canvas Canoe, more)
NortonMarine Books
Old Salt Books (Used nautical and historical interest books)
OZ-Guide Australian Boating and Yachting Guides
Paradise Cay Publishers (Publishers of the Nautical Almanac, Commercial Edition and other titles)
Pier Books Inc. (Books for shipmodel builders and "those interested in 'the evolution of the ship'")
Ragged Symmetry Model Yachting Publications
Red Sky At Night (New books, online catalog)
The RobinsonMarine Bookshop (Madrid)
The Sailaway Cruising Club (Books and newsletters about pleasure boat cruising in the tropical Americas)
Sailing Books & Publishers (Links)
Sea Room (Seller of novels and non-fiction about the age of fighting sail)
Sea Tale Book Sales
Seawaves Book Order Service (Used books, mostly naval non-fiction, Vancouver, BC)
Seaworthy Publications ("A Wisconsin-based press dedicated to publishing books about sailing and boating")
Sheridan House (Publisher of sailing books)
Sim Comfort Associates (Fine books about the age of fighting sail, 1793-1815)
Swashbucklers & Heroic Fantasies at Violet Books (Online catalog)
Tall Ships Books (Used and new fiction and nonfiction books from the age of fighting sail to the present day)
Tee Publishing (Marine modelling & model steamboating books)
Ten Pound Island Books (Gloucester, Mass. Specializes in high-priced collector's item used books.)
Thomas Reed Publications (Home of Reed'sMarine Almanacs)
Tiller Publishing
Torpedo Junction (Book dealer specializing in submarine history books)
Town's End Books (Hard to find used books by 20th century authors)
The US Naval Institute Press
WarsashMarine Bookshop (British marine and yachting books, new, used, out of print, UK)
Watermark Publishing Co. (Cruising guides to the US Southeast)
The Wells Book Group (Sellers, buyers, and searchers of antiquarian, out-of-print and used books, Victoria, British Columbia)
W. G. Winter Books (Used, rare, out of print)
Wiening Marine (Books about the Great Lakes)
A Wings, Wheels and Keels Australian Military Bookshop (New and used military books published in Australia, plus various overseas publications)
Le Yacht (Maritime book store, Paris)
Canals & Canal Cruising:
Anglo-Welsh Waterways Holidays
British Waterways Home Page (Agency in charge of Britain's canals)
The Canadian Canal Society
Canalboat Holidays Ltd. (Self drive canalboat charters on Britain's Grand Union Canal)
Canal Junction (A guide to UK canals: maps, heritage and other useful information)
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
The C & O Canal Association
Collar City Charters (Canal boat charters on the New York state canals, Hudson River and Florida Intracoastal Waterway)
The Cotswold Canals Trust (Restoring the Stroudwater Navigation and Thames & Severn Canal)
The Dalslands Canal (Sweden)
The Delaware and Hudson Canal and Its Museum
Drifters Leisure Limited (Consortium of British self-drive canal narrowboat charterers)
Encounters with Canals (England and Wales)
France by Boat (French canals)
Friends of the Delaware Canal
Friends of the Rideau Canal
Friends of the Trent-Severn Waterway (Ontario, Canada)
Gateway of Flanders (The official Terneuzen Locks website)
Gateway of Flanders' Canal Links
George's Canal Boating in the UK and Europe (With some North American Info)
The Göta Canal ("Sweden's blue ribbon")
H & H Narrowboat Hotels (Operating the purpose built hotelboats Hind & Hart on the canals of Britain)
Historic Canals of Québec
History of the The Erie Canal
History of the Welland Canals
The Inland Waterways Association (UK)
The Lockmaster's House Museum (Chaffey's Lock, Rideau Canal, Ontario)
Mid-Lakes Navigation (New York state canal cruises)
The Panama Canal
Papillon (Luxury renovated steel dutch canal boat for sale, "Papillon is one of those masterpieces that emerges from a moment of tormented and creative insanity")
The Potomac Conservancy C&O Canal Page
The Rideau Canal Waterway (unofficial) Home Page (Ottawa-Kingston Ontario)
Scotland's Waterways Explorer
The Shannon-Erne Line (Motorboat charters, Ireland's Shannon-Erne waterways)
The Traffic Center for Inland Shipping on the Amsterdam Rijnkanaal (Navigation information for the canal that connects Amsterdam with Rotterdam and Germany)
Canoes, Kayaks & Skin Boats:
AAA Trailers for Canoes and Kayaks
The ACA National Sailing Committee (The American Canoe Association)
The American Canoe Association (ACA)
American Traders (Wooden canoes, paddles, accessories, Greenfield, Massachusetts)
The American Whitewater Affiliation
Arthur Hebert's Sea Kayak Page (Official home of the Yucatán to New Orleans Expedition by Sea Kayak)
The ASCE/MBT National Concrete Canoe Competition
Atlantic Coastal Kayaker Magazine
Atkantic Kayak (Washington, DC area sea kayaking guided tours, retail sales ACA & BCU instruction)
The Baidarka Mailing List Archive
B & B Yacht Designs (Canoes & kayaks)
Bear Mountain Boat Shop (Canoes and kayaks, plans, model canoe kits. Run by Ted Moores. Co-author of Canoe Craft)
Bear Paw Canoe Co. (Strip planked canoes)
Blue Water Kayaks (Dealer, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida)
Bruce's Paddling Page (Chesapeake and Delaware, mostly)
Building a Canoe Sailing Rig (By Larry Zuk & Bob Halsey)
Building a Wood Epoxy Sailing Canoe (With details of the sailing rig)
Building Fine Woodstrip Kayaks (Video from Homegrown Boats)
Building the Greenland Kayak (Traditional skin-on-frame)
Camano Island Inn (Sea kayak rentals, accommodations for visiting sea kayakers, Washington)
The Canadian Canoe Museum (Peterborough, Ontario)
The Canadian Recreational Canoeing Association (CRCA)
Canoe and Boatbuilding for Amateurs, W. P. Stephens (1889, electronic book)
The Canoe Club of Kingston University (England)
The Canoe Cruisers Association of Greater Washington, DC (A kayak and canoe club paddling the Potomac River Basin and adjacent watersheds)
Carl's Paddlin' - Canoe & Kayak Center (Canoe sales, Madison, Wisconsin)
Carmans River Canoe and Kayak (Long Island, New York)
The Carolina Canoe Club
CedarCraft Outfitters (Custom cedar strip canoes)
Cedar Island Canoes (Wood & canvas paddle and sailing canoes, restorations, Virginia Beach, Virginia)
Chesapeake Light Craft, Inc. (Kayak and canoe plans and kits)
Chicago Area Paddling/Fishing Pages ("Places to sail, kayak, canoe, fish, or just relax in Chicago")
Classic Solo Canoe Courses by Becky Mason (Chelsea, Quebec)
Coastal Spirits (Vancouver Island wilderness sea kayaking tours, Seaward Kayaks dealer)
ConnYak (Connecticut Sea Kayakers)
The Coracle, an Ancient Little Boat
The Coracle Files (A middle aged gent builds himself a coracle)
Crab Design (Plans for easily assembled plywood sailing canoes and a proa, Austria)
Dan Miller and Craig O'Donnell's Canoe Sailing Resources List
David Gulick's CLC Mill Creek Double Project
The Decked Sailing Canoe Historical Archives
Deluge Kayak and Canoe Equipment (Including a mini-crabclaw sailing rig)
Dreamcatcher Kayaks (Lark 8 lightweight wooden kayaks)
Düsseldorfer Paddlergilde (DPG, Germany)
Eastern Edge Outfitters (Newfoundland sea kayaking)
The Eddyline Echo ("The premier source of canoe and kayak information on the Net")
Explore Charters (Sea kayak adventures based on the motorsailer mothership Rolano, Sooke, Vancouver Island, British Columbia)
Five Lakes Wooden Boat Center (Restoration and repair of wood/canvas canoes, workshops, classes. Wisconsin)
The Florida Sea Kayaking Association
Folbot - Folding Kayaks
Fridtjof Nansen's Bamboo-Framed Kayak
George's Stitch & Glue Kayak Builder's Journal (Illustrated story of building a stitch and glue kayak, the author's first boatbuilding attempt)
Gil Gilpatrick's Home Page (Maine canoe trips, strip building book)
The Gli-Gli Project (35-foot Carib dugout canoe voyage from Dominica to Guyana)
The Great Lakes Sea Kayaking Association (GLSKA)
Great Outdoor Recreation Pages' Paddling Links (GORP)
Green Valley Boat Works ( Winters canoe and kayak plans)
Greg Carlson's Folding Kayak Plans
The Grip Clip Kayak (Green willow shoots, a blue tarp and Grip Clips)
Gulf Area Sea Paddlers (GASP!)
Hardy Products (Kayak dollies, paddle and canoe storage racks)
Headwater Wooden Boat Shop (Cedarstrip/epoxy canoes, kayaks and small boats to classic designs, Buckhorn, Ontario)
Henri Vaillancourt (Traditional indian birch bark canoes and paddles)
Heritage Canoes (Woodstrip/epoxy canoes, Kalispell, Montana)
Heritage Kayaks (Open cockpit self-bailing sea kayaks)
Hobie Cat (Kayaks)
How to Make a Paper Canoe (From The Boy Mechanic, 1913)
IC Life in Canada (Official site of the Canadian Canoe Sailing Association)
An Inland Voyage (An account of a journey through Europe aboard a double-paddle canoe, by R. L. Stevenson)
International Canoe Swedish Homepage (Racing sailing canoes)
Jim Coburn's Greenland Kayak Links
Joe River Initiative (Wood-canvas and birchbark canoes)
Joe Slater's White Water Kayaking Page
The MacGregor Page (With the text of A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe)
Judy Kavanagh's Canoe Pages (Sailing, birchbark and otherwise)
Kayak Builders of So Cal
The Kayak Building Bulletin Board
The Kayak Buy & Sell (Free ads, stolen kayak list)
Kayak Construction (Construction d'un Cape Charles de 18 pieds)
Kayak Construction with Aerospace Composites for the Home Workshop
Kayak Port Townsend (Sea kayak tours and rentals)
The Kayak Sailing Mailing List
Kayak Way (A hands-on boatshop. Kayaks, Umiaks & Skin Boat workshops. Eastsound, Orcas Island, Washington)
The Keel Haulers Canoe Club (Ohio)
Keel Haulers Outfitters (Canoing and kayaking equipment)
Ken's Paper Boat Page
The Kent Island Outrigger Canoe Club
Kevin Martin Wooden Boats & Canoes (Lapstrake, wood and canvas canoes, decked sailing canoes, Epping, New Hampshire)
Kirk's Paddling Page (Canoe tips, paddle trips to Ozark and Wisconsin rivers, and links.)
Klepper Kayaks
Laughing Loon Custom Canoes & Kayaks (Strip-built, plans and kits)
L'eau Vive's PaddleGear.Com
Lost in the Woods Boatworks (Lapstrake double-paddle canoes, Nobel, Ontario)
Lost in the Woods Boatworks' Canoe Links List
The Mad Canoeist!
Makani One-Man Outrigger Canoes (Hawaii)
Mariner Kayaks (Sea Kayaks, free kayak design program)
Meitheal Mara (Researchers and builders of the Irish currach)
Michigan's Canoe Trails (GORP)
Mike's Kayak Journal ("Short trips kayaking the rough, but beautiful, shores of Sonoma and Marin counties." Lotsa pictures)
Mike's Kayak Page (building a CLC Chesapeake 18)
The Minnesota Canoe Association (MCA)
Moosehead Canoes and Paddles (Specialists in paddlemaking and native paddle designs)
The National Coracle Centre (Cenarth, Wales)
The Native WaterCraft Society (NWCS "Building boats since 75,000 BC")
The Newfound Woodworks, Inc. (Cedar wood-strip canoes, plans, kits)
The New Zealand Kayak School (Whitewater kayak training, kayak rental, guided trips, Murchison, South Island)
Nick Schade's Guillemot Kayak Page
Niles Canoe Rental (Livery Service on the Dowagiac and St. Joseph Rivers, Michigan)
Noah's Marine Supply (Bear Mountain canoe & kayak plans & kits)
The Northeast Paddler's Message Board
North Japan Whitewater Frenzy
Northwest Canoe Company (Canoes, plans and canoe building supplies, Minnesota)
Northwoods Canoe Company (Rollin Thurlow, wooden canoe restoration and construction, kits, plans, books, tools, Atkinson, Maine)
The Norwegian Canoe Association
Old Town Canoes
Oregon Trail Canoe Company (Cedar strip canoes, canoe kits, Hydra kayak dealer, paddles and accessories, Eugene, Oregon)
Otter Wilderness (Canoeing and wilderness Trips in Canada's Yukon)
The Outrigger List (Outrigger paddling and canoe culture)
The Pacific Northwest Racing Canoe Page
Paddle Fancy Inlaid Wood Canoe Paddles
Paddle Plus+ (Sea kayaking instruction, kayaks, paddles, gear, videos & literature)
Paddlers' Network Home Page
Paddling Stories from a Veteran Canoeist and Kayaker (Plus neat places to paddle & suggestions to improve your kayaking pleasure, by Phil Rowe)
The PakYak Prototype ("From Pak . . . to Yak in 10 minutes!" 12' a truly folding kayak, free online plans)
The Pattersons' Kayak Projects
Pictures from the Fall '95 Skin Boat Gathering at Deception Pass (Whidbey Island/Fidalgo Island, Washington)
Piragis Northwoods Company (New and used canoeing, camping equipment and canoes)
Practical Canoeing (A treatise on the management & handling of canoes, online book by "Tiphys,"" 1883)
ProaBoat ("The web site for proa boat owners, builders, and designers")
The Proa FAQ
Pygmy Boats Inc. (Sea kayaks and plans)
Qivitoq and a Stich-and-Tape Kayak (Free Plywood Kayak Plans by Doug Garmon)
The Ramblin' Uptown Muskrats Canoe Club (Traditional canoeing in North Carolina, Maryland, Delaware and Virginia
Redfish Custom Kayak & Canoe Co. (Wood strip sea kayaks & canoes, plans)
Redwing Designs, Winters Designer
Reefing Gear (How to rig reefing gear for batwing sails and other battened canoe sail rigs, from Canoe Handling by C. B. Vaux, 1885)
Resources for Wood Canoe Enthusiasts (A bibliography)
Rick Maston Specialties (Fiberglass pontoon outriggers for canoes)
Ross' Kayak Building Adventures
Rotocast (Maker of Hydra kayaks)
Rushton Canoe Sails (Rushton Improved Bailey batwing canoe sails)
Rutabaga (New and used canoes, kayaks & accessories, and "advice from knowledgable paddlers")
A Salty Dog ("The Internet's first on-line Sea Kayaking Magazine!")
San Javier Kayak (Kits and plans for wooden sea kayaks)
San Juan Excursions (Sea kayak tours, Friday Harbor, Washington)
Sea Bright Kayak (Sea kayak kits)
Secret Mountain Wooden Boats (Canoes, kayaks & paddles)
Sea Fever Kayaks (Skin kayaks)
The Sea Kayaking FAQ
Seaside Small Craft (Lapstrake double-paddle canoes, Willis Wharf, Virginia)
Seaward Kayaks (Sea kayaks)
The Seminole Canoe and Kayak Club (SCKC, Jacksonville, Florida)
Sequoia Canoe (Strip and stitch 'n' glue/strip hybrid canoes, kayaks & pirogues)
Shearwater Adventures Home Page (San Juan Island sea kayaking)
Shearwater Boats (Canoes, kayaks, plans, Stamford, Connecticut)
Siku Kayak (A 14,400 mile journey along the coast of arctic Alaska)
The Southampton University Canoe Club (UK)
The South Shore Paddlers Association (Nova Scotia)
SouthWest PaddleSports (Sales, rentals, service, lessons, repairs and trips. Kingwood, Texas)
Spencer Hurley Canoe Company ("Straight-forward old-time wood-canvas canoe building and restoration", Dwight, Ontario)
Spring Creek Outfitters (Outriggers, rowing kits, yokes, wheels, sail kits, seats and other stuff for canoes and kayaks)
Steve and Sheryl Build a CLC Kayak (An illustrated account)
Steve's Canoe Homepage
Steve's Kayak Project (Building 2, 15'6" stitch 'n' glue kayaks of his own design)
Steve's World Wide Canoe Web (Links)
Stillwater Boats (Persuaded plywood canoes, plans, kits)
Stimson Marine (Skin-on-frame sea kayak plans and kits)
The Stripper's Guide to Canoe-Building (David Hazen's canoe building page)
Swamp Yankee Boats (Stitch and glue canoe plans, kits)
Swift Canoe & Kayak (Builders and sellers, Dwight, Ontario)
Thomas Fabrication & Boatworks (Wood and fiberglass canoes)
Thorncrest Outfitters (Full outfitting and shuttle service, guided tours on the Saugeen River and Lake Huron, instructional courses, Southampton & Hanover, Ontario)
The Tieken Group (Kayaks, take-apart canoes)
Timo Noko the Intrepid Canoing Hobo (Alaska and British Columbia sea kayaking adventures)
Traditional Kayaks and Other Boats (By Harvey Golden, builder of Inuit and Aleut kayak replicas)
The Ultimate Directory of Kayaking Links
The US 10 Square Meter International Canoe Home Page
Valley Woodworking (Cedar strip canoe plans & accessories)
Waan Aelon Kein (A Walap (voyaging proa) of the Marshall Islands)
Wacky Lassie (Free online plans for an instant double paddle canoe to be built and used by kids)
Washington Kayak Club (Saltwater and whitewater, Seattle)
Water Arts (Custom cedar strip canoes, British Columbia)
Water Sprite Canoes (Plywood canoe kits, 7' to 19')
The Wave~Length Paddling Magazine Network
What is This Thing Called Dragon Boat? (Resources for dragon boaters, more)
The Willamette Kayak and Canoe Club's Kayaking Page
William Longyard's Kayaking Page
Williams' Coracle Links
Windspeed Design (Quick-reefing spinnakers for canoes and kayaks)
The Wooden Canoe Heritage Association ("For the traditional North American canoe")
Woody's Backcountry Canoe Camping
The World Kayak Federation
Wyoming River Raiders (Canoes, kayaks, rafts & river running supplies)
Yak Sak Kayak Protective Bags
Coast Guards & Lifesaving Services:
The Aberystwyth Coastguard Company (Unofficial British Coastguard Page)
Asociación Honoraria de Salvamentos Marítimos y Fluviales (ADES, the Argentine lifesaving service)
The Australian Volunteer Coast Guard
Ballybunion Sea & Cliff Rescue (County Kerry, South West Ireland)
The Burry Port Lifeboat Station (Wales)
Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary Unit 35, Victoria (Volunteers who dedicate their time to providing emergency search and rescue services on the Victoria waterfront and beyond)
Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary Unit 71 (Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, on Great Slave Lake)
Canadian Coast Guard / Garde côtière canadienne
Canadian Coast Guard College
The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans/Coast Guard
The Canadian Lifeboat Institution (A volunteer maritime rescue service)
The Chain Locker (Information about Her (British) Majesty's Coastguard)
Coast Guard dot Org (Unofficial site created to act as a central location for all US Coast Guard related links and resources)
Coast Guard Group Los Angeles-Long Beach
The Coast Guard Sea Veterans of America
The Coastie Calendar
Coastie Realty (Service to help members of the USCG community to buy, sell and rent realty property)
The Cutter Bahooglia (Jerry Lenz's virtual coast guard cutter, lots of good pictures)
Deb's Coast Guard Links Page
The Finnish Lifeboat Society Laukaa Branch
The Harwich Lifeboat (RNLI)
In the Service of Humanity (Lifeboat services around the world)
Jack's Joint (Stories and memories of the US Coast Guard)
Kystvaktskvadron Nord (The Norwegian Coastguard)
The Margate Surfboat Memorial (The Friend to all Nations surf-boat tragedy on the night of Thursday, December 2nd, 1897)
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (UK)
The Master Chief Petty Officer of the US Coast Guard
The National Lifesaving Association of Iceland
New England US Coast Guard Links
Ray O'Neal's Home Page (Retired USCG boatswain's mate)
The Royal National National Lifeboat Institution (UK)
The Royal New Zealand Coast Guard
The Royal New Zealand Coastguard Federation Inc. (A volunteer lifesaving organization)
Saanich Marine Rescue (Volunteer support group for Unit 36 Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary, British Columbia)
Search and Rescue Links World
The Severn Area Rescue Association (SARA, UK)
The Shenango Valley US Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla
The Texel Lifesaving Brigade (Holland. In Dutch)
The United States Coast Guard
United States Coast Guard '55-'59 (Dick Juge's four years)
United States Coast Guard History (From various sources)
USCGC Mackinaw (Great Lakes icebreaker)
USCGC Polar Sea (Icebreaker)
USCGC Planetree (WLB 307, 1943 buoy tender)
USCGC Westwind Virtual Museum and Reunion Hall (Icebreaker)
US Coast Guard Academy
The US Coast Guard Auxiliary (The civilian arm of the Coast Guard)
The US Coast Guard Auxiliary Oyster Harbor Flotilla 11-8 1NR (Cape Cod, Massachusetts)
The US Coast Guard Bering Sea Patrol - Alaska Veterans Reunion Association (BSP-AV)
The US Coast Guard Chief Petty Officers' Association (USCG CPOA)
The US Coast Guard History of Buoys and Tenders
The US Coast Guard Nav Center MIC Database (Manufacturers' serial number ID codes)
US Coast Guard Research & Development Center
US Coast Guard Vessels and Aircraft Data Sheets
The US Life Saving Service Heritage Association)
The Woronora Bushfire Brigade (Marine based firefighters, New South Wales, Australia)
Commercial Fishing:
The Alaska Fish and Game Commercial Fisheries Page
Alaska Fisherman's Journal
Alaska Maritime Agencies' Fisheries Links
Alaska Report© (News, weather, and information for Alaska's commercial fisherman, wireless friendly)
The Alaska Sea Grant College Program (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)
The American Group (Manufacturer of rope and cordage products for the commercial fishing industry)
Aquaculture Topics at the Aquatic Network
The Canadian Department of Fisheries
Canadian Fishing Company (Gold Seal Seafoods, Vancouver, British Columbia)
Canadian Fishing Company - Boats For Sale
ComFish (The commercial fishing & seafood index)
A Directory of Commercial Fishing Organizations
Dirigo R&D (Electronic fishing gear)
Dory Launch (Pacific City dories, an Oregon Field Guide segment)
The Dory Page ("Dedicated to the West Coast dory salmon fishing fleet of the past, present, and future")
Down to the Sea in Ships (A list of men fishing out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA who have been lost or died at sea)
The Falmouth Centre for Marine Studies Fishing Vessel Deck Officer Programme (Cornwall)
Fisheries Topics at the Aquatic Network
The Fishermen's News (West Coast commercial fishing magazine)
Fishing Boats & Gear (Online magazine)
Fishing for Information (A hypertext guide to Internet resources in aquatic science)
Fishing in New Jersey
Fishing? - It Was a Way of Life (Dedicated to Nova Scotia fishermen and mariners lost at sea, their families and survivors)
The Fishing Net (Commercial fishing home page)
Fishing News Books (Publisher specialising in fisheries and aquaculture)
Fish Internet Services (Information from around the world on topics related to the fishing industry, aquaculture and seafood)
Fish Tales ("From fishing history to contemporary fishery issues, it's all here!")
The Fish Ticker (News for anglers and commercial fishermen)
Gadus Associates: Science Serving the Fisheries (Information and support in marine fisheries science, Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia)
The Great Lakes Fishery Commission
The Gulf of Georgia Cannery (A pictorial history)
Havbruk Magazine (Online magazine for the Norwegian fishing industry)
Heads Up! (A collaborative project of Oregon Sea Grant and the Women's Coalition for Pacific Fisheries providing timely, updated information for the West Coast fishing industry)
The High North Alliance (Defending the right of coastal communities to utilize marine mammals sustainably)
Humber Maritime (Photographs of fishing boats)
The Iceland Directorate of Fisheries
The Iceland Directorate of Fisheries' Links
Institute for Fisheries Resources
Libby Island Trap Co. (Fold-up lobster & shrimp traps)
Luna Sea Products (Yachats, Oregon)
Maretec Consulting Ltd (Sale & purchase of fishing vessels, project development, negotiation & contracting of new vessels & conversions, Faroe Islands)
M. Ben-Yami's PC FISHelp (Multipurpose fishing technology program)
Mechaweld Maritime Fishing Trawlers for Sale (South Africa)
National Fisherman
The National Fisherman Mariner's Library, Links
National Marine Fisheries Service
National Marine Fisheries Service Northeast Fisheries Science Center (Woods Hole, Massachusetts)
The NMFS Album at the NOAA Central Library Historical Image Collection
NMFS Pacific Salmon Information
NOAA Fisheries (National Marine Fisheries Service, NMFS)
North Atlantic Fisheries College (Port Arthur, Scalloway, Shetland)
The North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries
The Northeast Fisheries Science Center Historical Photo Collection (National Marine Fisheries Service)
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
The Oregon Extension Sea Grant
Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations (PCFFA)
Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC)
The Pat Hathaway Historical Photo Collection (Views of Monterey, Cannery Row, the sardine fishing industry)
Quentin's Trawler Page
Seafood Oregon
Seattle Marine & Fishing Supply Co.
The Shetland Fishermen's Association (With links to other Shetlland fishing organizations)
The Shetland Fishing News (The journal of Shetland's fishing industries)
Shetland Fishing News' Fisheries Links
Skipamiðlunin Bátar & Kvóti Ltd. (Fishing vessel sales, Reykjavik, Iceland, iceland fisheries links)
South West Nets (Fishing nets, Newlyn, South West of England)
That F****ing Swede's Commercial Fishing Page
The Westcoast Fisherman (Western Canada commercial fishing magazine)
Wood Carvings by Nova Scotia Carver Clifton Sears (Humorous carvings of lobsterman)
Yankee Whaling Company (Nantucket consortium planning to hunt grey whales off California. For real??)
Cruises & Chartering:
Aegean Sailing Chartering
Alcyone & Sanctuary Charters (Cayuga Lake, New York)
American Pride Tallship Charters and Educational Programs (Three-masted schooner, Long Beach, California)
American Sailing Yachts (Sailing yacht chartering)
Argo Yachting (A Greek yacht chartering company)
Authentic Yacht Charters (Caribbean, Belize, Mexico, Hawaii, and both coasts of the United States and Mexico)
Baja Seafaris (Sail boat charters, La Paz, Mexico)
Balearic Yacht Charter (Baleares, Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza, Formentera)
Balmy Days Cruises (Coastal cruises in Boothbay harbor, Maine)
Baltic Sea Charters Aboard the Three-masted Schooner Linden
Bareboat Depot (Bareboat charters of sailboats and motoryachts)
Bay & Delta Charters (San Francisco Bay charters abord the 70' motoryacht Avalon)
Bay Island Yacht Charters (Penobscot Bay, Maine)
The Blue Heron Co. (Glass-bottom tour boats, Fathom Five National Park, Georgian Bay, Lake Huron)
Blue Water Charter Ltd (Luxury crewed charters aboard the sailing yacht Pegasi, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia)
Bovenmaas Charters (Amsterdam Noord, Holland)
The Brigantine Jean de la Lune (Cruises in Western Isles of Scotland and the Canaries)
The Brigantine Søren Larsen (South seas and New Zealand cruises)
Caledonian Discovery Activity Holidays (Cruise the Great Glen and Caledonia Canal aboard the the motor barge Fingal of Caledonia)
Cap'n Dave's (Morgan 28 for charter, New York, New Jersey)
Caribbean Yacht Charters (Virgin Islands)
Castlemain (Crewed yacht charters, Fort Lauderdale, Florida)
CGN (Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le Lac Léman, lake cruise ships, Switzerland)
Charter 2000 (Charter a luxury yacht to ring in the new millennium)
charternet.com® (Over 30,000 charter listings worldwide)
Charter the International Folkboat Ellen (In the Baltic)
Chesapeake Bay Cruises Aboard the Schooner Patricia Divine (Out of Annapolis)
Chesapeake Bay Sail Training and Captained Charters Aboard the Sailing Vessel Seanchai
Cielo e Mar Charter Service (New York harbor tours and charters)
Clipper Cruise Line (Relatively small cruise ships)
Collar City Charters (Canal boat charters on the New York state canals, Hudson River and Florida Intracoastal Waterway)
Colvin Charters (Bareboat powerboat charters, San Francisco Bay area)
The Crewed Charter Trimaran Le Go II (Sailing and diving in the Caribbean)
The Crewed Charter Yacht Vacations Catalogue
Cross Eagle Yacht Charters (Sailing charters in Greece and the Greek Islands)
Cunard Line
CYOA Yacht Charters (Virgin Islands)
Delta Queen Steamboat Co. (Mississippi River system steamboat cruises)
Diamond Jack's River Tours (Sightseeing tours, private charters and special cruises, Detroit)
Discovery Charters (Skippered and bareboat charters in and around Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia)
Dixie Sailing (Charters aboard the sailing yacht Dixie, Stockholms skärgärd, Sweden)
Eastern Edge Outfitters Newfoundland (Newfoundland sea kayaking)
ECC Yacht Charting (Tenerife, Canary Islands)
Ed Hamilton & Co. (Independent booking agency for Caribbean charters, bareboat and crewed, power and sail)
Eileen II A Sailing Lady for Charter! (Oslo Fjord and surrounding area day cruises aboard a 92' ketch, longer charters)
El Dorado Yacht Charters (Sail or power, Mazatlan, Mexico)
Ever Onward Inc. (Yacht charters worldwide, European barge excursions)
Fielding Travel's CruiseFinder®
The Flower of Caithness (Schooner for charter, Scotland, Baltic)
Frank Schoenstedt's Cruise Ship and Ferry Pages
Freighter Cruises Inc. (Freighter cruise travel agency)
Frisia Yacht Charter (Holland)
The Great Lakes Schooner Company
Hamilton - The Sail of Your Life (The Swan 86 Hamilton, UK and Caribbean charters)
H & H Narrowboat Hotels (Operating the purpose built hotelboats Hind & Hart on the canals of Britain)
Hideaway Holidays: Sailing Holidays in Tonga (Charters)
Holland America Line Westours
Hornblower Dining Yachts and Monte Carlo Cruises (California, Wayne's Wild Goose, San Francisco harbor tours, more)
The Houseboating Page (A guide to houseboat rentals)
Intercat (Multihull charters in the Seychelles)
International Yachts (Yacht charters, local, Med, Caribbbean, etc. Falmouth, Cornwall, UK)
The Internet Guide to Freighter Travel
Iolair Yacht Charter (Bareboat and skippered charters, Scotland's west coast)
Ionian Sea Charters Aboard the Motorsailer Silver Cat Too
Irrawaddy Flotilla Company (Paddlewheeler cruises on the Irrawaddy River, Myanmar)
Jim Ouellette's Northeast Yacht Charters (Marblehead, Beverly and Cape Cod)
The Ketch Angelique (Maine dude ketch)
Koffen Af Hansø (Charters out of Crete aboard a classic Norwegian sailboat)
L'Acadie en Voile (A bi-lingual sailing ship cruise along the Canadian Atlantic coast to experience the the Acadian heritage)
The Lewis R. French (The oldest schooner in Maine's windjammer fleet)
Lighthall Charters (Sailboat day cruises, Santa Cruz, California)
Lindblad Special Expeditions (Cruises and expeditions to the far corners of the world)
Lobster Tales, Inc. (Lobstering excursions and a pirate adventures from Plymouth, Massachusetts)
The Maine Windjammer Association
Maine Windjammer Cruises (Schooners Grace Bailey, Mercantile & Mistress)
Maine Windjammer Vacations Aboard the The Schooner Flying Fish
The Maldives: the Last Paradise on Earth (Charters)
Maritime Matters (Ocean Liner history and cruise ship news)
Midcoast Charters (Day cruises, aboard The Motor Vessel Monhegan, Rockland, Maine)
Mid-Lakes Navigation (New York state canal and lake cruises)
The Mini Tug Julius N. (Harbor cruises, private charters, whale watching, San Diego)
The Motoryacht Capricorn Lady (71' Trumpy for Caribbean charter)
The Motor Yacht Matazz (Turkey & Ionian Sea charters)
Nautilus Yachting (Mediterranean, Caribbean and South Pacific charters)
NAVTOURS (St. Lawrence, Lake Champlain, Bahamas, Caribbean, Turkey & Polynesia bareboat & crewed charters)
Netherlands Charters Aboard the Clipper Sailing Barge Zuid-Holland
New York, Long Island Sound and Virgin Island Charters Aboard the 1929 Staysail Schooner Shearwater
The New Zealand Kayak School (Guided whitewater trips, Murchison, South Island)
Nicholson Yachts (Crewed sailboat charters)
Nigel James Yacht Charter (Bareboat and crewed charters, Mediterranean, Caribbean, South Pacific and Indian Ocean)
The Norfolk Heritage Fleet Trust (Hire classic sailboats to cruise the Norfolk Broads)
North End Shipyard Schooners (Maine dude schooners Heritage, American Eagle and Isaac H. Evans)
Northern Shipping Limited (Scandinavian and Baltic charters)
North Huron Charters (Sailboat rentals and excursions, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario)
Out on the Salty Seas (Charter sailing in Greece)
The Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle (Coal-fired excursion boat, Chatham, Kent)
The Paddle Steamer Waverley (Cruises 'round the coasts of the United Kingdom)
Palmland Tours (Kerala, India Houseboat tours)
Paradise Connections (Caribbean crewed yacht charters)
Peconic Sailing Company (Sailing charters, north fork of Long Island)
Pera Yachting (Charters, day cruises, diving tours, Turkey)
Picot's New Zealand Charter Boat Guide
Pittwater Yacht Charters (Sydney, Australia)
Rendezvous Charters (78' brigantine, SF)
Riptide Sportfishing (Whale watching & nature trips, San Francisco, San Mateo, California)
The RMS St. Helena (Cargo liner cruises to St. Helena, Asencion, Tristan da Cunha)
Sackett's Sailing Center (Charters, Clear Lake, Texas)
The Sail Away Group (Charters, cruising club, sailing school, Belgium)
SailAway Yacht Charter Consultants (Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida & Keys, Mediterranean, crewed charters, power and sail)
Sail More Life (Tampa Bay's gay sailboat charter)
Salt Island Adventures (Dining cruises, sightseeing tours and private charters, Great Salt Lake, Utah)
Salty Seas Yacht Charter (Sailboat chartering around the world)
ScandiMarine (Stockholm)
Scandinavian Charter Yachts (Crewed yacht charters in Scandinavia and the Caribbean)
The Schooner Bonnie Lynn (Steel, 57', custom charters, Maine)
The Schooner Isaac H. Evans (1886 Penobscot Bay dude schooner)
The Schooner J. & E. Riggin (Maine dude schooner)
The Schooner Mary Day (Maine dude schooner)
The Schooner Nathaniel Bowditch (Maine dude schooner)
The Schooner North Wind (57', Penobscot Bay, Maine)
The Schooner Roseway (Retired New England fishing boat)
The Schooner Thomas E. Lannon (65' 1997 Essex-built schooner sailing out of Gloucester, Massachusetts)
The Schooner Woodwind (Chesapeake Bay charters)
The Schooner Yacht Wendameen (Day trips, Maine)
Seahorse Yacht Charters (Power and sailing yachts, Spain)
SeaView ("The service that brings you news and information about the passenger ships that travel the great oceans and waterways of the world")
Sailing Charters Aboard the Sloop Pteropod with Captain Bob Pratt (Penobscot Bay, Maine)
Ship Aficionado Magazine ("Reviewing great liners and cruise ships of yesterday and today")
ShipPax Information (Cruise ship and ferry information, Sweden)
Space Coast Sailing Center Inc. (Sailboat rentals, sail and stay vacation packages, captained charters, central Florida)
Spirit Of America Cruises (Public cruises and private charters aboard a 49 passenger sailing catamaran, Table Rock Lake, near Branson, Missouri)
Spirit Of Anegada (Daysails in the British Virgin Islands aboard a custom built 44' schooner daysailer)
Spirit of Peoria Illinois River Cruises (Diesel sternwheeler)
The Steamboat Natchez (New Orleans day cruises)
Sunsail Charters
Thorncrest Outfitters (Full outfitting and shuttle service, guided tours on the Saugeen River and Lake Huron)
The Three-Masted Schooner Victory Chimes (Maine dude schooner)
The Three-Masted Steel Schooner Kathryn B (Maine dude schooner)
Tomcat Charters (Motoryacht in the Florida Keys, Bahamas)
The Topsail Schooner Clipper City (Charters and day sails, Baltimore)
The Topsail Schooner Gypsy Rover (Daytime and sunset cruises, Galesville, Maryland)
TraveLtips Cruise & Freighter Travel Association
Tropic Bird Sailing Adventures (South Pacific charters, 50' steel cutter)
True Love Charters (40 foot sailing catamaran, Chesapeake and the Florida Keys)
Tweemastklipper Hollandia (30 meter ketch, Holland)
Ullswater Motor Yachts (19th century former steamers cruising Ullswater, English Lake District)
The Unofficial Holland America Line Home Page
USA Charters (Greek charters)
Vacation Yachts, Inc. (Yacht charters, Florida)
Vana of Cranborne (South East Asia cruises aboard a 120' motor yacht)
Victory Chimes (Maine dude schooner)
Viking Cruise AS (Norwegian Cruises aboard a 100' viking ship)
Walton Gould Yacht Charters (UK charter agent, bareboat and crewed, sailing and motor yachts)
Waterland Yacht Charter (Holland)
Waveline Cruisers (Cruising motorboat charters on the Shannon River, Ireland)
The Wheelhouse (A newsletter with unbiased information about cruising on cruise ships)
Whistling Man Schooner Company (Sailing cruises aboard the Friendship sloop Friendship on Lake Champlain from Burlington, Vermont)
Windjammer Barefoot Cruises (Caribbean sailing ship cruises)
Window on Cyprus (Eastern Mediterranean charters, bareboat and crewed)
The Windship Way (A guide to windjammer and "tall ship" travel)
The Wooden Yacht Fleet (Charters & excursions, 1/2 day to 1 week, San Diego)
The World Of the Stephen Taber (Maine dude schooner)
Yellow and Blue Boating Holidays (Worldwide yacht charter broker)
Cruises & Chartering in the Northwest:
58° 22' North Sailing Charters (Bareboat sailing charters, Southeast Alaska)
ABC Yacht Charters (Crewed, skippered and bareboat charters, Anacortes, Juneau and Seattle)
Alaska Bareboat Adventures (Southeast Alaska charters, 33 ft tri-cabin trawler)
Alaska Research Voyages
Alaska Yacht Charters Aboard Explorer (For groups of up to six people aboard a Norwegian built trawler yacht)
Argosy Cruises (Lake and harbor day cruises, private charters, Seattle)
Bosun's (Gulf and San Juan Islands powerboat & sailboat charters)
Camano Island Inn (Sea kayak rentals, Washington)
Charters Northwest (Friday Harbor, Washington)
Classic Alaska Charters (Southeast Alaska fishing and cruising aboard a 40’ motoryacht)
Coastal Spirits (Wilderness sea kayaking tours, day trips on Vancouver Island and Desolation Sound)
Commencement Maritime (Alaskan wilderness adventure charters aboard the converted 1926 purse seiner Commencement and the converted 1927 troller Mary Jane)
Deer Harbor Charters (Whale watching in the San Juan Islands)
Duenadventures.com (Inside Passage and Queen Charlotte Islands wildlife & cultural tours aboard the Norwegian built ketch Duen)
Excursions Northwest (Houseboat rentals, Priest Lake, Idaho)
Explore Charters (Sea kayak and sailing adventures based on the motorsailer mothership Rolano, Sooke, Vancouver Island, British Columbia)
Kayak Port Townsend (Sea kayak tours and rentals)
Marine Adventure Sailing Tours (Southeast Alaska)
Oceantrails Sailing Company (San Juan Islands and Gulf Islands charters on the 60' ketch Carita)
Otter Wilderness (Canoeing and wilderness Trips in Canada's Yukon)
Pacific Catalyst Expeditions (Southeast Alaska and Pacific Northwest adventures aboard the historic vessels Catalyst and Westward)
Rivers Path Travel (McKenzie and Deschutes River whitewater rafting trips)
Sailing BC Alaska (Wilderness sailing adventures on the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska aboard the 67' wooden sloop Ocean Light)
San Juan Excursions (Whale watching/wildlife tours, Friday Harbor, Washington)