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Blackbeard Lives! (The adventure continues...); Blackbeard's Homepage (The king of pirates); Cap'n Ron's Pirate Links; L'Esprit des Pirates; The Lives of Mary Reade and Anne Bonny (From A General History of the Pyrates by by Captain Charles son); The New England Pirate Museum (Salem, Massachusetts); No Quarter Given (An online pirate magazine); The Piracy Museum (At Morro Castle of Santiago de Cuba); Pirates at the City Art Centre (Edinburgh); Pirate's Cove (The world of The Pirate King); The Pirate Image Archive; The Pirate Poetry Bibliography (At the New England Pirate Museum); Pirates of the Caribbean ("Shiver me timbers..."); Pirates of the Spanish Main; The Pride of Many (Adventures aboard a modern-day pirate ship); Teach's Hole (Blackbeard exhibit and pyrate specialty shoppe, Ocracoke, North Carolina)
Rigging & Sails:: The American Group (Manufacturer of rope and cordage products for the heavy marine, commercial fishing, and recreational marine markets); Arborline Ropes; Banks Sails (Racing and cruising sails, one design sails); The Benze Smart Sail ("Like having a sailboat with an automatic transmission..."); Brion Toss Rigging (Including the Brion Toss Rigging Forum); Building a Canoe Sailing Rig (By Larry Zuk & Bob Halsey); Building a Mast From Epoxy and Glass-Roving (By Jeroen Hoekstra); Cast-Aways Used Sail Loft; Chinese Junks & Battened Lugsails (With an extensive bilbliography, at Craig O'Donnell's Cheap Pages); Conrad Blocks (Traditional wooden shelled blocks); The Cordage Institute (Develops standards & promotes the safe use of rope); Doyle Bouzaid Sails New Zealand, Ltd.; Doyle Sailmakers; The Dwyer Aluminum Mast Company (Masts and rigging hardware); The DynaWing Project (A self-tacking asymmetrical wingsail); E-Z-JAX Sail Control Systems (Patent retracting lazy jacks); Fawcett Boat Supplies (Sailboat hardware and cordage); Frank Hagan's Bird's Mouth Tapered Mast Proof of Concept Test; Garhauer Marine Hardware (Sailboat hardware); Green Sails (Denmark); Gregg Carlson's SailForm (Freeware 3-D sail visualization and design program); Hall Spars (Carbon fiber spars); Harken Yacht Equipment; Hogin Sails (Cruising-comercial-traditional sails but also familiar with modern types, Alameda, California); Hollowood Exotic Plywood Tubing; Hood Annapolis (Sails, canvas, and rigging supplies)
Jacques Mertens on the Sprit Rig: Jeckells Quality Sailmakers (UK); J. M. Reineck & Son (Manufacturers of classic bronze yacht blocks with modern ball bearings); son Sails, Inc. (Sails, spars, rigging); Kappa Sails (Racing, cruising sailmakers, sail repairs, Westbook, Connecticut); Kemp Sails (Custom made sails for yachts of all sizes, UK); Layline Sailboat Racing Equipment; Leech & Rudiger (New and used sails); The Lug Sail Association (Venice, Italy); Making the Tyvek Sail (By Bill Wallace); Marlow Ropes; Mast Building for Beginners (Building carbon masts. from the Cherub class page); Mast & Sail in Europe & Asia (By H. Warington Smyth, 1906); Meissner Winches; Metalmast Marine (Spars and fittings); Neil Pryde Sails (New and used sails); New England Ropes; Norseman Marine USA (Mast Builders, fittings and hardware, specialists in aluminum, stainless steel and wire rigging); North Sails New Jersey (Racing and cruising sails, repairs); The Nova Scotia Junk Rig Association; Nukin-O Sails (San Antonio, Texas); Odd Sails From Polytarp (At Craig O'Donnell's Cheap Pages); Offshore Spars (Carbon fiber and aluminum mast systems); Optimum Rigging (Mail order rigging services and hardware); Optiparts Marine Equipment (Manufacturer of spars and accessories for the Optimist dinghy); Performance Yacht Systems (Internet catalog of high-performance sailing gear); Pineapple Sails' Educational and Enlightening Articles; Pineapple Sails Sailmaker; PolySail (White polytarp sail kits); PolySail's How to Make Polytarp Sails Article; Quantum Sail Design Group; Reefing Gear (How to rig reefing gear for batwing sails and other battened canoe sail rigs, from Canoe Handling by C. B. Vaux, 1885); Rigging Only (Sailboat hardware and rigging); Rig-Rite Inc. (Spars, rigging & hardware for sailboats); Ropetec (Industrial rope, rigging, South Africa); Rushton Canoe Sails (Rushton Improved Bailey batwing canoe sails); Sailcut (Sail design and plotting program from Robert Lainé, free evaluation copies); SailFlow Sail Performance Prediction Software; Sailrite (sail kits)
Scandinavian Sprit Rig Tips (By Stefan Lindberg): Shop and Building Tips (Cold-molded PVC-core spar building, homemade blocks, more); Shore Sails Northwest (One-design sails, Seattle); Spinlock (Sailboat deck hardware); Squeteague Sailmakers; Stateline Braiding (Ropes for yachting, South Africa); Tom Speer's Theoretical Boat Design Page (Airfoils, rigid rigs); Tom's SpeedSail (the Aeroskimmer wing sail); UK Sailmakers; Ulta Sail (Cross laminated polyethylene film sail kits for small boats); US Army Field Manual FM 5-125 - Rigging Techniques, Procedures, and Applications; VER Sales Cable Rigging & Supply; WB-Sails Ltd. Oy (High-tech sailmakers, Finland); WB-Sails News (Articles about sail aerodynamics, etc.); Weekend'R Products (Sail ties, spinnaker guys); Windjammer Sails (Chandlery and sailmaker, Ontario); Windwing Designs (Windsurfer sails); Wingmast Aerodynamics; Wipika - The Marine Wing (Kite sail for surfboards, boats, buggies, etc.); The Wooden Boatshop (Wooden spars, blocks); (See also Hardware & Equipment for chandleries)
Rowing & Human-Powered Boating:: The Adirondack Guideboat Resource Guide; Adirondack Rowing (New and used guideboats, shells and sculls, Latanzo rowing shell parts); The American Pearl (All woman team competing in the Atlantic Rowing Race); The Athenian Trireme Olympias (Operating full-size reconstruction); Atlantic Challenge (International rowing/sailing/seamanship contest using replicas of the French "Bantry Bay" gig); The Atlantic Rowing Race; Barkley Sound Oar and Paddle Ltd. (Spruce oars and paddles, rowlocks. British Columbia); Chesapeake Rowing (Alden rowing shells and rowing accessories); Club de l'Aviron Toulonnais (Competition rowing club, Toulon)
Cranks with Planks (Sampans & yulohs): Decavitator (Record-breaking 18.5 knot human-powered hydrofoil); Durham Boat Company, Inc. (High performance rowing and sculling equipment and instruction); Empacher Rowing Shells; Fabriquez vos Avirons (An online program to calculate the proper proportions for homemade oars); The Henley-on-Thames Home Page; The Houston Rowing Club; Hydro Bikes (Pedal powered catamarans); The International Human Powered Vehicle Association (IHPVA); The Key West Rowing Club; Max Mosig's pedal boat; The National Rowing Foundation; Northwest Legends Rowing (Rowing association, articles, links, Snohomish County, Washington); Open Water Rowing ("The publication for rowers who are really going somewhere"); Pogofoil Page (Human powered hydroplanes); The Portland Boat Club
Project weROWus Inc. (The only US entry in the October 2001 Trans-Atlantic rowing race): Rachel Quarrell's Rowing Service (Rowing information and links); Rowable Classics (A "not-for-profit collaboration among people committed to preserving, restoring, building, owning, rowing or displaying wooden, sliding-seat rowing boats"); SeaCycles (Pedal powered catamarans); The Sea Republics Regatta (Italian rowing competition between Amalfi, Genoa, Pisa and Venice); Trampbåtsföreningen af Chapman (The Swedish waterbike association); The Trampofoil® Homepage (Human-powered hydrofoil with flapping wing propulsion); River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames (UK); Shaw & Tenney Inc. (Oars and Paddles); The Venetian Rowing Technique; The WaveBike (A long, thin pedal powered monohull with an active stabilization system); Wayland Marine - For Those Moved By Oars (Alden Shells, boat kits, Bellingham, Washington); (See also Canoes & Kayaks)
Sailboat Racing & Classes:: The 1792 Sports Boat (New Irish one-design racer); A 1984 Olympic Yachting Retrospective
The 1999-2000 America's Cup Regatta in Cartoons: 5000 Times (The Laser 5000 racing dinghy page); The Albacore Home Page; AmericaOne Challenging for America's Cup™ XXX in Auckland, New Zealand; America's Cup 2000 (News and views on the Cup in New Zealand)
The America's Cup™ 2000 Official Site: The America's Cup™ Free Press; The America's Cup Global Information Service (ACGIS); Anders Ansar's Tactical Compasses for Sail Boats; Angelo Mascaro's Illustrated Sailboat Class Directory; Around Alone 1998-1999 (Charleston-Charleston, South Carolina, starts September 1998); Atlantic Challenge (International rowing/sailing/seamanship contest using replicas of the French "Bantry Bay" gig); The Australian NS14 Sailing Dinghy; The Australian Yachting Federation; The Banshee Class Page; The Barmouth To Fort William Three Peaks Yacht Race; The Battle of Amsterdam (Aug. 30 - Sep. 1 Put the world and Olympic champion sailors in one-design mini-yachts on a canal right in the middle of Amsterdam and switch on a bunch of high powered wind generators! To be cybercast); The Brazilian Daysailer Class Association; The Cal Sailing Club Reference Library; The Canadian Albacore Association; Canadian Dart Association (18' catamaran); The Canadian Olympic-Training Regatta (CORK, Kingston, Ontario); The Canadian Yachting Association; The Canadian Yachting Association Disabled Racing Calendar; The Canterbury R Class Skiff Squadron (New Zealand); The Cape Cod Frosty Class Association; The Catalina 25/250 National Association; The Catalina 320 National Association; Chas's Scottish Racing Page; The Chesapeake Bay Alberg 30 One-Design Association; The CHIUU-Team Page; The Chrysler Buccaneer 18 Class Association; The Classic and Vintage Racing Dinghy Association; The Classic Moth Boat Association (CMBA); Comet Fleet #40 (Annapolis, Maryland); The Cortez Racing Association (Sailboat racing, San Diego); Course Croisière EDHEC (French race)
CoutaNet ("Everything Couta online): Dan's Unofficial Laser 2 site; The Daysailer Association National Web Site; The Daysailer Home Page (O'Day and otherwise); The Deal Island Skipjack Races (Maryland); The Detroit Regional Yacht-Racing Association (DRYA); The Dinghy Database of Racing Classes; The Dutch Laser Class Association; The Dutch NACRA Catamaran Pages; Eastern M-Scow District News; The Fishing Bay Yacht Club Laser Fleet (Deltaville, Virginia); The Flying Scot Page; The Flying Scot Sailing Association; The Gentry's Chrysler Sailing Page (Dedicated to Chrysler sailboats and sailors); The German Dragon Association; The Hampton One Design Sailing Association; The Harwich High School Sailing Team (Cape Cod, Massachusetts); Hayling Island Sailing Club RS200s (UK); High performance skiff Sailing; Hobie Cat Fleet 100 (North Carolina); Hobie Cat Fleet 281 (Santa Rosa, California); Hobie Cat Fleet 295 (Rochester, New York, with links to other Hobie pages); IC Life in Canada (Official site of the Canadian Canoe Sailing Association); ICYRA Home Page (Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Assoc. of North America); The International 14 '97 Worlds Photos; The International 14 World Server; The International 2.4 Meter Class Association (Single handed sit-down development class); The International 49er Homepage; The International 505 North American Web Site; The International Canoe Swedish Homepage; The International Catalina 27 Association; The International Catalina 30 Association; The International Contender Association (Catamaran); The International Dragon Association; The International Eight Meter Association; The International Europe Dinghy; The International Finn Association; The International Fireball; The International FJ US Homepage; The International Flying Dutchman Class; The International Laser Class Association; The International Laser Class Association, North American Region; The International Lightning Class Association; The International Lightning Class, Finland District; The International Moth Class Association of Germany; The International Nonsuch Association; The International OK Dinghy; The International Optimist Dinghy Association
The International Penguin Class Dinghy Association: The International Thunderbird Class Association; The Irish Laser 2 Class Association; The IYRU (World governing authority for sailing); The IYRU List of International Class Associations; The J/35 Class Association; The J80 Sailing Page with Tons of Photos; The Jet-14 Homepage; F. Kennedy's Star Class Sailboat Flash II (His first and favorite sailboat); The son 18 Class Association; Jussi Laaksonen's Nordic Folkboat Page; The Kenwood Cup Official Website; Key West Race Week 1999; Lake Michigan Sailboat Racing Information; Layline Sailboat Racing Equipment; Links to One Design Pages; The Macgregor/Venture Sailing Discussion Group; Mark Wiltz's 1998 Pacific Cup Experience; The Mini Transat "Classe Mini" Open 6m50 Pages (General information about the boats, designs and more); The Moore 24 Home Page; The Mooredale Sailing Club Hobie Clinic; The Mumm 30 Class Association; The National Pintail Class Association; The National Triton Association; The New England Beetle Cat Association; The New South Wales Sabot Associations; The Next Challenge (A wingsailed trimaran fitted for use by the severely handicapped to race in the 'Round Britain race); The Nordic Folkboat International Association (NFIA); The North American Fireball Homepage; Ockam Instruments (For racing sailboats); O'Day Sailboat Pages; Offshore Challenges (Short-handed sailboat racing); The Olson 30 Association; The Ontario Fireball Association; The Ontario Sailing Association; Optiparts Marine Equipment (Manufacturer of spars and accessories for the Optimist dinghy); The Paralympic Sailing Regatta (Sydney Harbour, October 18-29 2000); Passion Voile Champagne Mumm (Yacht racing sponsor)
The Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Association (PICYA, Northern California)
The Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Association Regatta Committee (PICYA): The Precision Sailboat Owners Page; Racing Basics (A beginner's sailboat racing manual); Regatta Schedule Index; The Restoration of Cindy Lou the A-Scow; Robin Davie (BOC 'round the world racer); The Round The Island Yacht Race (Isle of Wight); The Royal Dutch Yachting Union (KNWV); Royal Naval Sailing Association Singlehanded Race (Vancouver to Nanaimo, BC June 1-2); The Royal Ocean Racing Club; The Royal Yacht Association (RYA. The national governing body for pleasure boating in the United Kingdom); The RS Class Association (RS600, RS400, RS300, RS200, B14, 49er); The S2 6.9 Owners Page; The Sailing Information Centre (For all sailors who race centreboard yachts); The Sailing Source's List of One Design Associations (Just about all of them); Sailing World Magazine; The Sailor's Sourcebook Boat Index (Information and profile drawings of one design boats); SailPro.com (Sailboat racing links); SailWeb Sailboat Racing Page; The San Juan 21 Class Association; The San Juan 23 Home Page; The Santa Clara Racing Association (San Diego); The Santana 20 Class Association; The Santana 525 Home Page; Scuttlebutt (Online newsletter by Tom Leweck, an "irregularly distributed, irreverent collection of news, commentary, gossip, typos, opinions and dock talk"); SF BayRacer Boardsailers' Racing Forum; SF Sailing Home (The home of the San Francisco Bay Racing Crew List); Seahorse Magazine (Official publication of the Royal Ocean Racing Club); Shark Bytes (Home Page of the Canadian and International Shark Class Associations); Shields Talk; Small Craft Advisories (New and used parts for racing dinghies, Naples Sabot and Laser parts); the Snipe Class International Racing Association; The Snipe Class WWW Information Server; The Soling Class Homepage; La Solitaire Le Figaro (Solo one-design offshore race); The Solo Racing Trimaran Primagaz; The South Bay Yacht Racing Club (Marina del Rey, California); The Sunfish Class Home Page; Svenska IF-båtförbundet (The Swedish International Folkboat Union ); The Swedish Dragon Association; The Swedish West Coast Square Metre Yacht Society; The Swiftsure International Yacht Race; The Sydney-Hobart Race (Tasmanian site); The Tanzer 16 Page; The Tanzer 22 Class Association; Teacher's Round Britain Challenge; Texas Sailing News (Online sailing magazine for the Southwest); Things to Do for a Laser (Articles on all sorts of things that people have done or built for their Lasers); The Thistle Class Association; The TransPac 97 Official Homepage; The Triton One Design Class of San Francisco Bay (Racing the Pearson Triton); The UK Cherub Class
UK Dinghy Racing (Gofaster tips, free ads, readers comments, links to all UK sailing clubs and class associations): The UK Fireball News; The UK International Optimist Class Association; The UK Wayfarer Association; Unofficial BOC 'Round the World Race Page; The Unofficial Coronado Sailboat Page; The Unofficial Melonseed Skiff Home Page; The Unofficial Tanzer 26 Page; The Ursa Major Challenge Foundation (A Canadian America's Cup challenge); The US 10 Square Meter International Canoe Home Page; The US 2.4 Meter Class Association; The US Etchells Association; The US Finn Association; US Independence Cup/North American Challenge Cup; The US Mariner Class Association; The US Optimist Dinghy Association; The Vendee Globe Around the World Race; The Victorian 125 Association; The Victory 21 Homepage; The Wayfarer Sailing Dinghy; The W Class (76' sloop); The Whitbread Round The World Race; The Windmill Racing Dinghy Homepage ("Catch a plane, race a Windmill"); The Wind of Change Challenge (A Russian and an American race two identical racing sailboats built in Russia solo 'round the world, 1998-99); The Winning Formula (Jonathan Ho's sailboat racing resources); The Women's Yacht Racing Fleet of San Diego; The Wooden Hull Yacht Club of Southern California (Promoting cruising and racing among wooden hull auxiliary sailboats); WorldVoyager Racing World (The Official Hawaiian Grand Prix and World Class Ocean Racing Web Sites); The World Wide Web Yacht Racing Club; Yachting World Diamond Class; Yacht Racing Rules; Young America (The New York Yacht Club America's Cup challenge)
Sailing & Boating Schools:: The Academy of Sail (Adelaide, South Australia); Adams School of Sailing (Correspondence courses); Bay Island Sailing School (Penobscot Bay, Maine); Belmont Yachtmaster Academy (Seamanship courses, Email correspondence courses. UK); Blue Water Sailing School (ASA bareboat certifications, Fort Lauderdale, Florida); Boating Instruction on the Internet (A link list); Boat Safe (Online boating courses); Bow to Stern Sailing School (ASA Certifications, Marco Island, Florida); Britannia RYA Sea School; Capt Roy's, Inc. (Home study captain's license training); Captain Steven E. Mink (Private sailing lessons, Philadelphia); The CFAIR Sailing School (Citizens For An Improved Rockland free sailing school on Penobscot Bay, Maine); The Chapman School of Seamanship; Charter Captains Courses (Cambridge, Maryland); Chesapeake Bay Sail Training Cruises Aboard the Sailing Vessel Seanchai; Dave and Doris Colgate's Offshore Sailing School (Fort Meyers, Florida); The Dundalk Power Squadron's Basic and Advanced Boating Classes (Maryland); The Elliott Bay Yachting Academy (International Sail & Power Association certification, Seattle); Escuela de Vela Socaire (El Mer Menor, Spain); The Falmouth Centre for Marine Studies (Boat handling classes, Cornwall); Full Sail Sailing School (British Virgin Islands)
Glenans Irish Sailing Club (A non-profit, volunteer organised sailing school teaching cruising, dinghy sailing, catamarans and windsurfing, Baltimore & Collanmore, Ireland): HERIZEN™ Sailing School for Women (British Columbia); The International Sailing Center (Learn-to-sail training in both monohulls and multihulls, Key Largo, Florida); Krista's Sailing School (Basic/intermediate sailing lessons, all women or coed classes, Santa Cruz, California); Land's End Marine Adventure (Sailing instruction, British Columbia); The Liberty Sailing School of Philadelphia; The Mariner Sailing School (Alexandria, Virginia); Martin's Sailing School (Sacramento, California); The Maryland School of Sailing & Seamanship; Mumbles Sailing School (RYA certification classes, Swansea Bay, Wales); Mumbles' Worldwide Sailing Schools Directory; Newport Sailing School (Jersey City, New Jersey); The New York Sailing Center Sailing School; The New York Sailing School; Ocean Masters Sailing Academy (Florida Keys, Bahamas or the Virgin Islands); The Orange Coast College Sailing Center (Sail training adventures, sailing classes, power boat training, Newport Beach, California); The Ottawa Sailing School; Outward Bound Sabah, Malaysia; Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory (Sailing classes in traditional boats); ProCAPTAINS (Sailing instruction); Roy Lawson'S Sea Skippers Academy (Powerboat courses, sailing courses & skippers tickets, South Africa); RYA Yachmaster Course Overhead Projector Slides
Sail and Stay (ASA sailing classes, central Florida): The Sail Away Sailing School (Belgium); Sail Caribbean (Teenage sailing programs); Sailing Alternatives, Inc. ("Providing the instruction, environment and support for disabled and able-bodied individuals to experience the thrills of sailing"); SBI Sailing School; The School of Ocean Sailing (Maine); Seahorse Sailing Inc. (Learn while cruising); Sea School (Charterboat captain's license courses); Sistership Sailing School (Sailing program for women, British Virgin Islands)
The South East Cruising School (Sail training from Wicklow, Ireland to all corners of the Irish Sea and beyond): TopCat Cruising School (Learn to sail in a catamaran); Vacation Yachts Sailing School; Vieux Port Yachting School (Québec); Westbound Adventures (Learn to sail on the West Coast of Scotland)
Sailing Ships:: The 103 Year Old Clipper Sailing Barge Zuid-Holland; The American Sail Training Association (ASTA); Amigos de la Fragata Libertad (The Argentine full-rigged training ship); Amistad America, Inc. (Project to build a reconstruction of a slaver); Andrew Draskóy's Traditional Sail Links; L'Armada du Siècle (Sailing ship rendezvous, Rouen, France, July 1999); The Arctic Schooner Bowdoin; The Barque Jeanie ston (Recreation of a 19th century Irish emigrant ship, being built at Blennerville, Kerry); The Barquentine Amorina (1934, "Queen of the Red Sea"); Batavia (Dutch East Indiaman reproduction); The Batavia Shipyard (Builder of the reconstructions Batavia and Zeven Provinciën; Bluenose II Preservation Trust Page; Brest '96Marine Extravaganza; The Brigantine Jean de la Lune (Cruises in Western Isles of Scotland and the Canaries); The Brigantine Romance (Captain Arthur M. Kimberly and his wife Gloria's charter boat, now sunk); The Brigantine Søren Larsen (South seas and New Zealand cruises); The Brig Niagara (reproduction of Perry's War of 1812 flagship); Bytown Brigantine Inc. (The sail training brigantines Fair Jean and Black Jack); Californian (Re-creation of the 1848 vintage revenue cutter C. W. Lawrence, sails out of California ports); Clearwater (Hudson River sloop used for education and conservation); Clipper City (120' steel topsail schooner, Baltimore); The Clipper Stad Amsterdam (A 78 meter steel sailing ship under construction in Amsterdam); Crewing aboard the Swift of Ipswich (An account of three weeks aboard the Swift); The Delaware Bay Schooner Project (Educational and conservation program using the 1928 oyster dredgeboat A. J. Meerwald); The Dutch 3-Masted Schooner Eendracht; The Duyfken 1606 Replica Foundation (Recreating the 17th century Dutch ship known to be the first European contact with Australia); The East Indiaman Götheborg III Project (Building a reproduction in Sweden); Elissa: An Iron Barque of 1877 (Galveston); The Flower of Caithness (Scottish schooner); Föreningen StockholmsBriggen (Building a ship based on the Swedish naval brig Gladan in the heart of Stockholm); The Four-Masted Auxiliary Schooner La Merced (Picture of hulk only)
Gazela (Former Portuguese codfishing barkentine, Philadelphia): The German Barque Alexander von Humboldt; The Golden Hinde (A reconstruction of Sir Francis Drake's flagship); Grand-Voilier.com (Building a reproduction of the 5,800 ton steel five-masted bark France II); The Gray's Harbor Historical Seaport Lady Washington Page; Gwendal's Info on the Robertson II and Pacific Swift and what sailing them is like (Unofficial SALTS page); The Half Moon (Reproduction of Henry Hudson's ship); Hanse Sail '98 (Rostock, August 6-9); The Hermione Project (A reconstruction of the frigate that took Lafayette to America, Rochefort, France); HM Bark Endeavour Foundation (reproduction of Cook's ship on his first voyage. Sydney, Australia); HMS Bounty (The 1962 MGM reproduction); The Image Archive at the Åland Islands Maritime Museum
The Iron Barque James Craig (Sydney, Australia): The Jubilee Sailing Trust (Sail training for disabled and able bodied aboard the barque Lord Nelson); Jubilee Sailing Trust's New Wooden 3-Masted Barque (Under construction); The Kalmar Nyckel Foundation (A reproduction of the ship that brought the first settlers to Delaware); Kenn Anderson's HM Bark Endeavour Voyage 98; Kenn Anderson's HM Bark Endeavour Voyage 99; The Ketch Angelique (Maine dude ketch); Lady Love (The Lady Washington Homepage); The Lewis R. French (The oldest schooner in Maine's windjammer fleet); The Log of the Picton Castle (179 ft. steel barque currently sailing 'round the world); The Mail-Yacht Skutan (reproduction of a 17th century mail vessel, Vaasa, Finland); The Maine Windjammer Association; Maine Windjammer Cruises (Schooners Grace Bailey, Mercantile & Mistress); Martin Combs' Books on Knots and "Tall Ships" For Sale; The Maryland Dove (A reproduction of a square-rigged merchant carrier of the first half of the 17th century); Mayflower 2000 (reproduction to be built in the summer of '96 in Southwark, England); MBV Training Ships (Swedish sail training); North End Shipyard Schooners (Maine dude schooners Heritage, American Eagle and Isaac H. Evans); The Northwest Schooner Society (Zodiac and Martha); OMF Ontario (19th century topsail schooner recreation, Oswego, New York)
OpSail2000 (Operation Sail 2000, multiple East Coast US ports, May 25 through July 31, 2000)
Opsail2000CT (Operation Sail 2000, New London, connecticut, July 12-15, 2000): Ostindiefararen Götheborg III (Reconstruction of a Swedish East Indiaman, under construction); The Pamir Memorial Page (Devoted to the memory of the German four-masted barque Pamir); The PhotoJournal.com (Photos of New England sailing ships); Pilgrim of Newport (A replica 1770s topsail schooner based in Long Beach, California); The Polish Research Vessel Oceania (Polish Academy of Sciences); The Polish Training Ship Dar Mlodziezy; The Portsmouth Project (reproduction of the mid 18th century US sloop-of-war Portsmouth); Pride of Baltimore II; The Pride of Many (Adventures aboard a modern-day pirate ship); Project Shtandart (Building a replica Peter the Great's frigate of 1703, St. Petersburg, Russia); Rattlesnake (reproduction of a 1780 American ship-rigged privateer, Florida); The Sailing Ships Page (Much information, mostly about large square-riggers); Sail Osaka '97 (Sailing ship race from Hong Kong to Osaka to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the modern Port of Osaka); Sail Training Association (Southampton & Salisbury branch,UK); The Sail Training Brig Astrid (UK); Sail Training of Finland; The Schooner Adventure (1926 Gloucester fishing schooner); The Schooner Adventuress (Picture only); The Schooner Adventuress; The Schooner Alcyone; The Schooner Alcyone (Picture only); The Schooner Bonnie Lynn (Steel, 57', custom charters, Maine); The Schooner Ernestina (Former New England fisherman, Cape Verde packet); The Schooner Flying Fish (Maine dude schooner); 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 Patricia Divine (Cruise boat out of Annapolis, Maryland); 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; The Schooner Yacht Wendameen (Day trips, Maine); Schooner Zodiac (127' 1924 William Hand design, based in Seattle); Sea Dragon Studio's Schooner Links; The Shining Sea Foundation ("A new clipper for America", Boston); Sloop Providence Unofficial Page (Recreation of J. P. Jones' first US Navy Command); Star of India ("world's oldest active tall ship"); The Staysail Schooner Helena (127' Finnish sail training ship); The Staysail Schooner Shearwater; The Sultana Log Mailing List (Logbook entries from the colonial schooner HMS Sultana - 1770 and later images of the replica building project, and notes from a volunteer's viewpoint); The Sultana Project (Building a reproduction of a colonial era American schooner); A "Tall Ship" for Salem Massachusetts (Proposed reproduction of 1792 342 ton Salem East Indiaman Friendship); "Tall Ships" 1997; The "Tall Ship" Sail Training Forum; The Tall Ships Calendar (Photography by Thad Koza); Tall Ships International ("The magazine of ocean adventures"); The "Tall Ships" Page at Discovery Bay (On-line database); The Three-Masted Schooner Alexandria; The Three-Masted Schooner American Pride; The Three-Masted German Schooner Grossherzogin Elisabeth (1909); The Three-masted Schooner Linden; The Three-Masted Schooner Victory Chimes (Maine dude schooner); The Three-Masted Steel Schooner Kathryn B (Maine dude schooner); The Topsail Ketch Hawaiian Chieftain; The Topsail Schooner Alvei (92' former Scottish herring drifter); The Topsail Schooner Gypsy Rover (Daytime and sunset cruises, Galesville, Maryland); The Topsail schooner Swift of Ipswich; Toronto Brigantine Inc. (The small training brigantines Playfair and Pathfinder); The Toshiba Tallships Festival; The Training Ship Danmark; Travels with the Rose ("HMS" Rose); Tweemastklipper Hollandia (30 meter ketch for charter, Holland); The US Brig Niagara; US Coast Guard Barque Eagle (WIX-327); Veleiros Portugueses (Portuguese sailing ships); Victory Chimes (Maine dude schooner); The Virtual Endeavour Experiment (At the Natural History Museum, UK); Wander Bird (Warwick Tompkins' Elbe pilot boat); The Windship Way (A guide to windjammer and "tall ship" travel); The Wisconsin Lake Schooner Education Association (Constructing a traditional Great Lakes Schooner, Milwaukee); The World Of the Stephen Taber (Maine dude schooner); The Schooner Zodiac (Picture only)
Seamanship & Safety:: The Agate Pass Power Squadron (North Kitsap and East Jefferson counties, Washington); Approved Personal Flotation Devices; ArgusMarine (The Wheelhouse Companion: A Guide to the Collision Regulations and Safety on the Water); The Art Of Sailing; Atlantic Challenge (International rowing/sailing/seamanship contest using replicas of the French "Bantry Bay" gig); The Australian Maritime Safety Authority; Auxiliary Sail Vessel Operations (Book by Andy Chase of MMA); Boat Docking (Book about close quarters maneuvering for small craft); Boating Safety Information (Seamanship, weather & tides data, the latest local notices to mariners); Boat Safe (Boating safety information and online boating courses); The Cal Sailing Club Reference Library; The Canadian Coast Guard Office of Boating Safety; The Clark County Sheriff's Office Marine Patrol ("A place for everyone to learn more about boating & water safety"); Commander Bob's Boating Safety Notebook ("The Boating Safety Page on the WWW"); Definitions and Mnemonics for Sailors and Powerboaters; Disaster Recovery How-To; Drogue Information from Mid-Ocean Marine Sciences Pty. Ltd.; The Dundalk Power Squadron (Maryland); The Encyclopedia of Sails; The Foundation for Safe Boating and Marine Information; Guide to Sailing; A Guide to Signal Flag Systems; The International Maritime Organization (IMO, the UN agency responsible for improving maritime safety); International Marine Signal Flag Images; The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea 1972 (Complete COLREGS, in hypertext, as amended, and applying on the Rivers Wye and Lugg); Jeppesen Marine (RVO seamanship training software); Keep The Rules Enterprises (Skippa's Mate boating safety products, Australia); Landfall Navigation (Offshore safety equipment); The Land of Lincoln Power Squadron (Central Illinois); Liferaft Systems Australia (Liferafts and evacuation systems); Macneil's Seamanship Examiner (A PC CD-ROM Based study aid for mariners from cadet through to master); Marine Medical International (Medical equipment and supplies for offshore vessels and offshore medical training for professional crews); Marine Medical Systems; The Navigation Rules Q and A Page (DOT navigation rules interpretations); The Newfoundland and Labrador Branch of the Lifesaving Society; The Official NavRules for Windows Home Page (Training program for learning the "rules of the road"); PWC Laws, Responsibilities, Image, and Impact; Questions for Young Officers; RBBI's Open Water Rescue Procedures & Equipment; Reefing Gear (How to rig reefing gear for batwing sails and other battened canoe sail rigs, from Canoe Handling by C. B. Vaux, 1885); The Royal New Zealand Coast Guard's Safety Page; The Saginaw Bay Power Squadron (Michigan); Sartech Engineering Ltd (EPIRB servicing and test equipment); Sea Doc Tips (Medical information for the marine environment); Shorebird's Safe Boating Page; Stentec Software (Sail Simulator sailing simulator); United States Inland Navigation Regulations; The United States Power Squadron; United States Power Squadrons® District 27 (USPS, "The Mother of All Boating Safety Pages"); US Army Field Manual FM 55-501-2 - Harbor Craft Crewman's Handbook; US Army Field Manual FM 55-502 - Army Watercraft Safety; The US Coast Guard Marine Safety Office Boston; The US Coast Guard Marine Safety Office Portland, Oregon; US Coast Guard Maritime Telecommunications Information; Virtual Passages (Cruising sailing simulator combined with actual historical weather data for the globe, route planner and weather router); Water Safety New Zealand; Water Wise: Safety for the Recreational Boater (Book from Alaska Sea Grant); The Winston Salem Power Squadron (WSPS); Wooden Boat Foundation Educational Programs
Sea Scouts & Sea Cadets:: 1st Balmoral Sea Scout Group (Sydney, Australia. With links to other Australian Sea Scout pages); 1st Pelican Point Sea Scout Group (Perth, Western Australia); 3rd Athens Sea Scout Group of Greece (3 OAN); The BSA Sea Explorer Home Page; Mariners Log Vessel Management Software (Donated to the Dana Point Sea Scouts as a fundraiser); The Netherlands Sea Cadet Corps; The Royal Canadian Sea Cadets; The Sea Cadet Training Ship Sheffield (Sheffield, England); Sea Scouting Homepage of Naantalin Siniset (Finland); Sea Scouting in the Netherlands; Sea Scouts, Haifa (Israel); Sea Scout Ship 294 Felisi (San Diego); Sea Scout Ship 601 City of Roses (Portland, Oregon); Sea Scout Ship 936, Mariner (Dana Point, California); Sea Scout Ships Corsair (22) and Viking (100) (San Francisco)
The US Naval Sea Cadet Corps
Software:: The 21st Century Sailing Simulator (Interactive 3D sailing simulator); The Cap'n,Marine Technologies (Electronic charting and navigation software); Easy Track Boating and Yachting Maintenance and Trip Log Software; Eldridge TideWare (Real-time tide, current and coastal map software); Force Ten Software (OnBoard Yacht Management Software™ for Windows); Global Navigation Software Co. (PC chart plotter, GPS, celestial, ARPA, Free-ware demo chart plotter for the navigator who can find his/her way around using a sextant and compass); Great Lakes Marine Specialties (Computer software, NMEA interfaces, power conditioners); Gregg Carlson's SailForm (Freeware 3-D sail visualization and design program); ICAN (Electronic charting software, electronic charting systems); Jeppesen Marine (Electronic charting software, training software); Linden Software (Navigation and tide prediction software); Macneil's Seamanship Examiner (A PC CD-ROM Based study aid for mariners from cadet through to master); Marine Software Limited (Maintenance, stock control, purchasing, dry-dock specifications, cost control systems and bespoke programming); Maptech (Digitized charts and navigation software)
Marine Computing International Ltd. (Boat managenent, navigation, weather, communications software, games): Nautical Software, Inc. (Tides and currents on electronic charts); NavAid™ Software for Mariners (Software package which simulates the light flashing sequences of all major buoys and lightstations); Navigator Light (Navigation software, online almanac, celestial navigation fundamentals); Nobeltec Corporation (Marine navigation software); Pinpoint Systems International (Electronic charting products); ProMar Software (Waypoint for Windows navigation software); Sailcut (Sail design and plotting program from Robert Lainé, free evaluation copies); SailFlow Sail Performance Prediction Software; SailPlan (Navigation software); SeaClear (Freeware PC navigation software); Sea Information Systems & Thomas Gunn Navigation Services (Navigation software, charts, Admiralty Notices to Mariners. UK); Sea Innovations (Mariners Log vessel management software); Shipsoftware.com (Navigation & piloting software); Starpath School of Navigation (Classroom and home study, software, books, Seattle); Stentec Software (Sail Simulator sailing simulator); S_tide, A Tide Prediction Program (Shareware); Stormy Weather SoftWare (Tide, Morse code, race results shareware); Virtual Sailor ("The virtual sailing simulator"); Waterman Services ("Suppliers of computer solutions for the mariner", Vancouver, BC); Waypoint (Navigation software); (See also Boat Design Software)
Sport Fishing:: Adventure Sea Activities (Diving and Fishing, Singapore, Western Pacific); Alaska Fishing with Jakes Alaska (Salmon camp); The Anadromous Page; Antique Lures (A gallery of antique fishing lures); The Bay Area Regional Fishermen (BARF, "Dedicated to saltwater fishing and saltwater fishing boats of the San Francisco Bay area"); Betty Kay Charters (Bottom fishing out of Charleston, Oregon); Big Fish Fishing Tackle On-Line Super Store; The Blue Marlin Chronicles (Salt water fishing information); Boating.NET ("The internet boating and fishing guide for southeast Texas"); The British Columbia Sport Fishing Page; CalFish ("The premiere California sportfishing page"); The Cal/North Boating-Fishing-Diving Directory (Sources and suppliers, public service & government agencies and clubs, for Northern & Central California & Western Nevada); Captain Badia's Snook Fishing Tips; Capt'n Mike's Tackle Towne (Online fishing tackle store); Centennial Publications (Publisher of specialty books related to classic tackle and fly fishing); Champion Bass Guide Services (Central Florida); Chicago Area Paddling/Fishing Pages ("Places to sail, kayak, canoe, fish, or just relax in Chicago"); CIELO (A Japanese lure shop specifically oriented for black bass fishing); Classic Alaska Charters (Guided saltwater light-tackle, freshwater flyfishing & spin fishing, crabbing, shrimping, southeast Alaska); Confederação Brasileira de Pesca e Desportos Subaquáticos (The Brazilian agency managing fishing and diving); The Deep Sea Directory (A UK directory of professional angling (charter) boats); Dougs' Fishing Extravaganza (Fisherman's almanac for Hampton Roads, Virginia); Dream Catcher Sportfishing (San Diego fishing charters); Estate and Country Sports Equipment Ltd (Flies)
Fish 4 Fun (Florida fishing reports, tournaments, classified ads, chat, knots and more): The Fisherman's Headquarters (Info on saltwater and freshwater fishing); The FisherNet ("An internet magazine, database, and commercial directory for folks who take their fishing seriously"); Fishing Australia (Australia fishing tackle, reels, rods, lures, etc.); Fishing The Net; Fishing with Rangerrob and Friends (Western Washington & vicinity); The FishSearch.com Search Engine ("The search engine for all fishing related topics"); The Fish Ticker (News for anglers and commercial fishermen); The Florida Game & Fresh Water Fish Commission's Division of Fisheries; The Fly and Streamer Shop (Florida. Saltwater flies); Flyfish North Carolina with Gordon Churchill; The Gainesville Offshore Fishing Club (Florida); Georgia Fishing and Boating Permits Online; The Granville Island Sport Fishing Museum (British Columbia); The Great Lakes Sport Fishing Council; The Gulf Coast Angler's Association (Gulf coast saltwater fishing); Hale Aikane's Hawaii Sportfishing Adventures; HollyB SportFishing (San Pedro, California headboat); Jack and Dino's Fishing Show (Public catch and release angling show); Jeff Spira's Southern California Ocean Fishing Page; JimmyJo Meeker's Fishing Other Sports Links; Joe Kelly's Fly Fishing Western North Carolina; Joe's Favorite Texas Fishing Links & Striper Bass Page; Joe Slater's Ultimate Fishing & Saltwater Frisbee World; Just One More Sport Fishing Charters (Sandy Hook and Raritan Bay, New Jersey); Kevin Modera Saltwater Fishing (Flyfishing, camping and snorkeling guide services in Placencia, Belize); King of the Hill Fly Fishing Co.; Libby Island Trap Co. (Recreational lobster traps); Long Island, New York Fishing Charters Aboard Seamist II; Lou Bignami's Fine Fishing Magazine; Louisiana Fishing Magazine; Luhr Jensen & Sons, Inc. (Fishing tackle and fishing accessories manufacturing); Marlin Tug Copolymer Monofilament Fishing Line ("The Saltwater Tournament Fishing Line"); Mid-Atlantic Marine's North Carolina Fishing Reports (Cape Hatteras to Harkers Island); Mike's Guide Service (Fayette County, Texas); Montauk Sportfishing (New York); NautBob's Florida Outdoors; NauticalNet's New Jersey Fishing Reports; New England Surfcaster ("Dedicated to the preservation and sport of fishing!"); New York Worms (Growers of superworms, red wigglers, tropical and European nightcrawlers); Oceanic Bluewater Fishing Tackle; Oklahoma Fishing- The Ultimate Fishing Notebook (Including Oklahoma fishing links); Ol' Paw's Fishin' Page (Links to lots of sport fishing sites); Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife; Penobscot Bay Charter Fishing Trips with Captain Bob Pratt (Maine); The Phat Fish Website; Priest Lake Guide Service (Northern Idaho); Queens Creek Reel and Downrigger Sales and Service (Virginia)
Rederij Vrolijk (Sportfishing charters, Scheveningen, Netherlands): Reel Colors (Custom reel services, stand up rods); Reel Easy Sport Fishing (Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico); Rigs, Reefs & Wrecks, Inc. (Louisiana fishing); Riptide Sportfishing (Salmon & rock fish charters, San Francisco, San Mateo, California); San Diego Sportfishing on Captain Ward's My Fair Lady; Sandy Pittendrigh's Montana Fishing Reports; The Scottish Angling Homepage; Scott Plastics Ltd. (Downriggers); Sea Tours (New Zealand fishing charters and information); Somethin' Fishy Fishing Site (New Jersey); Sonia's Fishing Lures (Worm harness rigs); Spike's Fishing Singapore!; Tackleman (Online saltwater tackle dealer); Tacklemania.com (An online fishing tackle shop); Tampa VII (Sport fishing charters, Point Pleasant, New Jersey); Texas Parks and Wildlife; Tight-Line (East Texas fishing newsletter, fishing links); Tim Currie's Coastal Georgia Fishing Page; Tradewinds Charters (Salmon, halibut, tuna and bottom fishing, Depoe Bay, Oregon); The Troller's Connection ("Your source for Inland Northwest fishing information and hotspots"); Toy Soldier/Sportfishing (Deep sea canyon fishing in the Northeast, unofficial Carolina sportfishing boat site); The Urban Angler Ltd. (New York City fly fishing supplier); The Utah Fish Finder; Walleye Central; The Weekly Chesapeake Bay Fishing Report; The Where to Fish Directory (Information covering fishing locations in the UK and abroad); William B. Arnold's Fishing Page (Fishing the lower Chesapeake Bay)
Steamboats, Steamships & Old Power Vessels:: Al Dunlop's Steam Launch and Boiler; The American Victory Ship Mariners Memorial and Museum (Tampa, Florida); Bart Smaalder's Steam Launch Otter; Benson Mountain Company (Manufacturers of ASME code S boilers, boiler kits, boiler maintenance manual); The Carferries of Ludington (Lake Michigan, includes info and illustrations of Skinner and triple expansion engines); Cheddar Models Limited (Steam launch boilers); Classic Steam Ltd. (Manufacturers of steam equipment for freshwater and marine use, UK); Delta Queen Steamboat Co. (Mississippi River system steamboat cruises); DS Skibladner (The world's oldest paddle steamer, Lake Mjøsa, Norway); The Elliott Bay Steam Launch Company (Technically and historically correct hulls, engines, boilers, propellers, and accessories from the 1870s-1900 era); Finnish Steamboats (And other steam powered vehicles and machinery); The Former San Francisco Bay Ferry San Mateo (Picture only); Freja af Fryken (1865 Swedish steamboat, in swedish); Fun Riverboat Links; Help Save The Paddle-Steamer Patria (Lake Como, Italy); The Hobby Steamboaters Web Ring; Homecoming (A one hour video documentary of the WW II Liberty ship Jeremiah O'Brien); The International Steamship Register; The Island Queen: Cincinnati's Excursion Steamer (Book); Jussi Karlgren's Steamships of Stockholm page; The Legend of Steamboatin' (Riverboats); The Medway Queen Preservation Society (1924 paddle excursion steamer, Kent, England); The Minnesota Transportation Museum Steamboat Division (The "Streetcar Steamboat" Minnehaha, restored and operating after 50 years at the bottom of a lake); MS Gustaf Wasa (1876 Swedish lake passenger ship, cruises on Lake Siljan); The New England Steamship Foundation ( SS Nobska, America's last coastal steamship); The Northwest Steam Society Club; Norwegian Veteran Ship Club ("Preserving the Norwegian maritime heritage"); The Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle (Coal-fired excursion boat, Chatham, Kent)
The Paddle Steamer Picture Gallery (British excursion steamers): The Paddle Steamer Waverley ("The last sea-going paddle steamer in the world"); Project Liberty Ship (The W. Brown); Rainer Radow's Steamboat Page; Riverboat Paintings by Gary R. Lucy; Riverboats, Steamboats, Sternwheelers and Sidewheelers (Boat and captain directories)
Ron Ginger's Steam Launch Norman D.: Saving The Lake Passenger Steamship Pohjola (Tampere, Finland); Society for the Preservation of the SS City of Milwaukee
Souvenir d'Antan (1901 45' Victorian steam launch for sale): SS Badger (Lake Michigan carferry powered by a Skinner Unaflow steam engine); The SS Canadiana Preservation Society, Inc. (1910 Great Lakes passenger steamer. Buffalo, New York); SS Engelbrek (1866, Lake Siljan's first passenger steamer, in Swedish); SS Jeremiah O'Brien (WW II Liberty Ship); SS W. Brown (Liberty Ship); The SS Milwaukee Clipper Preservation Website; SS Shieldhall (Preserved steamship in Southampton, England. Last working coastal cargo steamer); SS Virginia V (Operating Wooden passenger steamer, Seattle); The Steam Boat Association (Great Britain); "Steamboat Ed" Haas (Steamboat Notes newsletter, more); Steamboating; Steamboating Magazine and the International Steamboat Society; Steamboating Online (Free email newsletter); The Steamboat Natchez (New Orleans day cruises); Steamboat Pictures and Information (At Hartford's page); The Steamboat Society, Göteborg Sweden (Maintaining the 1914 passenger steamer Bohuslän, the 1920 steam ferry Farjan 4 & the semi-diesel tugboat Stormprincess); The Steamer Columbia ("The Bob-Lo Boat", Detroit); The Steamer William G. Mather Museum; The Steam launch Artemis; The Steam Launch Lady Anne (Powered by a 1904 Stanley Steamer engine); The Steam Ship Explorer (Scottish fisheries research vessel); The Steamship Historical Society of America (SHSA, publisher of Steamboat Bill); The Steam Sternwheel Tugboat Portland; Strath Steam (Small marine steam engines and boilers built by Trak Pul Engineering, South Australia); Swedish Steamboats; The Tall Stacks Paddlewheeler Festival (Cincinnati, Ohio); Ullswater Motor Yachts (19th century former steamers cruising Ullswater, English Lake District); The University of Wisconsin - La Crosse Murphy Library (Source for 44,000 photos of inland river steamboats and river scenes); The Unofficial Page of the CGN (Swiss steamboats); The Windermere Steamboat Museum (Windermere, Cumbria, UK)
Tools:: 3M (Abrasives, etc.); The Candy Store for Woodworkers; Carlson Design's Plotter/Cutter Homepage; The Cheap Little Sucker (Build a $20 pump for vacuum bagging); Contec Germany (Mobile shot blasting machines); Delta (Power tools); The D&S Scary Sharp™ System (Sharpening plane irons and chisels with sandpaper); Ducktrap Woodworking (Traditional boatbuilding tools); Falcon-Wood (Old woodworking tools); Garrett Wade Company; Grizzly Industrial, Inc. (Imported woodworking and metalworking tools); Harbor Freight Tools (Cheap tools); Henderson Sewing Machine (New and used sewing machines, parts); Highland Hardware (Woodworking tools and tips); Hock Handmade Knives: Blades and More for Planes and Such (Plane irons and kits, more); The Japan Woodworker (Japanese hand tools); Jet Equipment & Tools; Klingspor (Sandpaper and abrasives); Laguna Tools (European woodworking equipment); Laser Engraving Machines; Lee Valley Tools & Veritas® Tools; Lie-Nielsen Toolworks, Inc. (Heirloom quality planes); McMaster-Carr Supply Company (Tool seller); Michael Engineering, LTD (Resin dispensing equipment); Newborn Brothers Co., Inc. (Caulking guns); Paddy O'Deen's Old Tools Page; Patrick's Blood & Gore (The Stanley plane page); Porter Cable Corp.; Rhino International Tools Ltd. (Manufacturer and distributor woodworking tools, UK); Robert Bosch GmbH (Power tools); The Robert Larson Company, Inc. (Hand tools); Rosewood and Brass (Antique tools); The Sewing Machine Super Store; ShopBot (WorkShop RoBot PC-controlled CNC system); Suffolk Machinery Corp. (Timberwolf® low tension bandsaw blades); The Superior Works (Antique, used and new hand tools); Table Saw Maintenance; TeachShave, Or How to Make a Spokeshave (By Gunterman); Tool Crib of the North (Power tools); Union Hill Antique Tools; Western Tool Supply (Tool dealer); William Alden Company; W. L. Fuller, Inc. (Countersinks, counterbores, plug cutters, taper point drills, brad point drills and step drills); Woodcraft Supply Corp.; Woodline Arizona, Inc. (Router bits and shaper cutters)
Tugboats:: The 1902 Steam Tug Waratah; The American Waterways Operators (AWO, national advocate for the tugboat, towboat, and barge industries)
As They Say On the River (A Dictionary of Western Rivers towing): The British Columbia Cannery Tug Delta (1889); Brown Towing and Salvage (Towing, chartering, and various marine contracting activities along the North Gulf of Mexico coast); Captain Jimmy's Mississippi River System (Database of towboats & operators); Captain Randy's River Pages (Mississippi River towboats); Crowley Maritime Corporation; The Detroit River International Tugboat Race 1998
Donjon Marine Co., Inc. (Marine salvage, hazardous material handling and pollution control, towing, floating derrick and barging services): The Dutch River Tugboat SPES; For the Love of Tugs! (Photos from the Olympia Harbor Days tugboat races); Hall Tugboat and Barge Brokerage (Specializing in US flag ocean tugboats and barges); The International Retired Tugboat Association (IRTA); Intership Ltd (Barge and tug services for the oil & gas offshore industry); Lekko ITES (Books, magazines and other services in the field of tugs, towage and salvage); Life on the River with Towboater Poncho Villa; Lower Columbia Riverboats (Pictures of Northwest tugs and other neat boats)
Marine Towing ("The one stop tugboat resource site"): The Mini Tug Julius N. (Commercial assistance towing, spill response, diving, salvage, and cruises, San Diego); The Mini Tug Julius N's Tug Links; Mormac Moran Towing; The National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors (Made up of the men and women who have served in the tugs and salvage ships of the United States Navy, Coast Guard and Army); New York City Area Railroad Tug Boats; Ocean Tug & Barge Engineering (Designers of articulated tug/barge units); Old River Bill's Home Page (Modeling the inland river towboat, towboat info); Olympia Harbor Days (Tug boat races, every Labor Day weekend); Paw Paw's Navy Days (Mostly in fleet tugs); The Pietro Micca (1895 Italian steam tug); Puffin Pete's RC Civil Model Boats (Tugboat models); Ron Burchett's Tugboat Modeling Page; The Russian Seagoing Steam Tug Rudokop (1958, now a floating demonstrator and testbed for Thordon Bearings); SS Robert (1866 Swedish steam tugboat); SS Styrbjörn (The last coal fired seagoing steam tug in Norway); The Steam Sternwheel Tugboat Portland; Swedish Tugboat/Bogserbåtar Pictures and Homeports; Tairona (Retired 1955 US Army LT); Towboat Joe's (Scratch-built models of river workboats, model plans, towboat info and pictures of cool old towboats); The Tugboat Laurindo Pitta (Brazilian veteran of WW I); The Tugboat Sand Man (Olympia, Washington based 1910 motor tug); Tugboats.COM; The USS Lipan ATF 85 Page (US Navy fleet tug, later transferred to the Coast Guard); Wildflower (1940 ex-Navy tug); Willie World (Columbia and Snake River towboats, Northwest tugboats); WorkBoat Magazine
Vikings:: Agnete (Replica of the Gedesby Ship, Denmark); The Blue Dragon Viking Long Boat (Diesel powered, leather upholstered, mahogany decked and for charter!); Embla (A Viking boatbuilding project in Uppsala, Sweden); Fotevikens Museum (Sweden); The Longship Company, Ltd. (Medieval reenactors operating two replica viking ships, Maryland); The Longship Company's Links List; Norseman, the Leif Ericson Vikingship (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); The Success of the Vikings; Viking Cruise AS (Norwegian Cruises aboard a 100' viking ship); The Viking Home Page (Sweden); The Viking Navy; The Vikings (Article By Arne Emil Christensen); Vikingship.com (Scale models of the Oseberg Viking ship); A Viking Ship Project for Östhammar, Sweden; The Viking Ship Replica Aifur (Sweden); The Viking Ship Replica Gaia (A copy of the Gokstad Ship, based in Sandefjord, Norway); The Viking Ship Replica Helge Ask (Roskilde, Denmark); The Viking Ship Replica Krampmacken (Gotland, Sweden); The Viking Times International Magazine; Viking Voyage 1000 (Hodding Carter and eleven others sail from Greenland to Newfoundland in a replica Viking ship); The World of Medieval Scandinavia; The World of the Vikings (A guide to Viking resources on the internet)
Warships:
The Aircraft Carrier Study Group (Enthusiasts who exchange articles and information about US aircraft carriers): Al Hines' USS Adroit MSO-509 Page (Ocean going minesweeper)
The Battle Cruiser Hood Association: Battleships Carriers And All Other Warships; The Beautiful Battles (Royal Navy destroyers); Black Snake Among Rabbits (War Times Journal article on the 1860 iron battleship HMS Warrior); The Canadian Tribal Association; Colin's HMAS Kanimbla Cruise (A short nostalgic voyage down the coast of Queensland & New South Wales as a guest of the Royal Australian Navy); The CSS Alabama Digital Collection at the University of Alabama; The CSS H. L. Hunley Page; Destroyers OnLine; The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Online (Partial); Don Shelton's Navy Pages (Submarines, more); Dutch Submarines (The submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy); Ed Allen's Warship Photo Gallery; La Escuadra Cantonal 1873-1874 (The ships of the short-lived Spanish Republic); The Fighting Lady (USS Yorktown CV-5/CVS-10); La Fragata Blindada Numancia (The first iron warship to sail around the world); A French CSS Alabama Page; The German Kriegsmarine Encyclopedia; La Historia del Arma Submarina Española (Spanish military submarines since 1888, and a few older ones too); The History of Military Naval Technologies (Focuses on the German navy and the evolution of naval technology from the beginning of the century to the end of WW II); The HMS Solebay Association (Those who served in the Battle class destroyer between 1945 and 1962); Kenn Anderson's Four Stacker Web Site (Devoted to US Navy WW I era destroyers); Knights of the Sea (Patrol torpedo boats of WW II); The LST 454 Home Page (WW II in the Pacific); Military Parade (The magazine of the Russian military industrial complex); The Military Site (Contemporary navy ship and submarine information); NATO Warship Visits to Halifax, Nova Scotia; NavSource ("Making detailed information about the history of the ships of the United States Navy available to everyone"); The NavSource US Surface Warship Photo Archives; NAVSURFPAC Ships; The Navy Snipe Page (A presentation of the Navy ships and stations served on as a Snipe from 1955 to 1975); The Old Steam Navy (Images of the men and ships of the US Navy in the late 1800s); Patrol Craft of WW II (A history of the ships and their crews by Wm. J. Veigele); Paul's Ship and Naval Pages (Thermopylae, Mauretania, HMS Eagle, mystery ship pictures); The PBR Forces Veterans Association (The Vietnam War era Patrol Boat River); The PT Boat Page; PT Boats Inc. (A non-profit historical and educational organization); Robs Navy Gallery (Naval aircraft pictures, most taken aboard the USS F. Kennedy); Ron Martini's Navy Submarine Base; Royal Navy Submarines; Royal Netherlands Navy Warships of WW II (An encyclopedia of the ships); The Russian Northern Fleet (Environmental threat, from the Bellona Foundation); Ryszard Kadow's Baltic Fleets Page (Fleets of the countries surrounding the Baltic); Sealion, Sturgeon's Submarine Journal (Online); Shipman's Naval Vessel Page; Sommergibili (Submarines of the Italian Navy); The Spanish-American War Centennial Website (With details of the naval fleets); Submarines in Long Island Waters ( Holland and America's first submarine base); The Surfacewarships List; Survivors (A WW II survival story of the U-Boat U-188 and two of her victims); Tammy Tunyavongs' Naval Vessels Page; Too Good to be Forgotten (The Patrol Craft Sailors Association, PCSA. an international, naval veterans organization dedicated to preserving the history of World War II and Korea-era Patrol Craft and their crews, and of the Cyclone-class Patrol Coastals of today's Navy); U-Boat Net; The United States Navy - Digital Images; The US Naval Vessel Registry (NVR); The US Navy Fact File; The US Navy Submarine Centennial; The USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72); The USS Cabot (Pictures of her at Port Isabel, Texas); The USS Charlotte (SSN 776); The USS Curtiss AV-4 Association (Seaplane tender, 1940-1957); The USS Drexler Page (DD 74, 1ost in battle near Okinawa, Japan on May 28, 1945); The USS Guardfish Home Page (SSN-612); The USS Iowa BB-61 Veteran's Association; The USS Lexington CV-2 Memorial Page; The USS Lipan ATF 85 Page (US Navy fleet tug, later transferred to the Coast Guard)
USS Midway Photos (Taken by J. McFarland during his 1953-54 tour aboard the ship): The USS Midway Reunion Association; The USS Pargo SSN 650 Homeport; The USS Pringle DD-477 Memorial Reconstruction Project; The USS Robert L Wilson DD-847); The US Submarine S-51 Accident; The USS Washington BB56 (WW II Battleship); The USS Wedderburn DD-684 (WW II destroyer); Warren's PT Boat Pages; Warship International Magazine; Warship Port Visits; Warships on the Web (A database of all warships on the web); (See also Navies, History & Museums)
Weather & Tides:: Alaska Report© (Weather for Alaska's commercial fisherman, wireless friendly); AutoTide4 (Free software for predicting the tide and tidal streams); The Beaufort Scale; Boating Safety Information (Seamanship, weather & tides data, the latest local notices to mariners); Bob Rice's Weather Window; The British Shipping Forecast; Canadian Hydrographic Service Tide Predictions; Cappy's Magic Weather Stone®; Catalina Internet Services' Tidal Information Page (Tide tables); Centre de Metéo Marine (France); Colorado State University Tropical Meteorology (Typhoons and hurricanes); Current Australian Weather and Tides; Current British Columbia Marine Forecast; Current Marine Data/Observations; Current Monterey, California Conditions (Ocean, weather and earthquakes!); Dooley SeaWeather Analysis, Inc. (Marine weather services, hard-to-find marine weather links); Durban, South Africa Tide Tables; Eldridge TideWare (Real-time tide, current and coastal map software); Environment Canada; Euro Weather (European and Mediterranean weather forecasts and meteorological resources); The Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (US Navy); Florida State Univ. Meteorology Department; Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, Washington Tides; GCW Weather Charts for the World's Ocean Re