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Here are some links we've found useful or interesting.

Astronomy:
Sun & Moon Rise/Set
Almanac Online
British Columbia links
Computer stuff:
Blogger.com – Google's free blog hosting. This is our new blog host. It has some free features that we really needed.

Bravenet – Free websites and web tools. This is our guest book host.

Browser updates: Get the latest and greatest Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox.

Go Daddy is our web hosting service.

SailBlogs – Sailing blog hosting. Basic blogs are free, but the really cool features cost a little. If we didn't already have a website and host, we probably would have stayed with this blog host.

Skype – Call us over the Internet. For computer-to-computer calls, it's free.
Cruising:
SSCA logo
Books and guides:
Jimmy Cornell's books—World Cruising Routes and World Cruising Handbook—provide essential information for planning passages and arriving at foreign ports.

Reed's various almanacs are crucial references for tides, currents, communications, lights, and such.

Changing Course: A Woman's Guide to Choosing the Cruising Life. When sailing guys ask us how to convince their women to go cruising, this is the book we have them start with.

Cruising Ports: the Central American Route. After visiting Mexico with Captain Rains's help, we continued on through Central America, the Panama Canal, and on to Florida. Be sure to use their website to check for updates.

Mexico Boating Guide. The Rains Guide got us down the Pacific coast of Mexico in safety.

Waggoner Cruising Guide, Annual Guide to Northwest Boating. This was our bible for two years of cruising in Puget Sound and British Columbia. We wish they could cover the whole world.
Discussion boards:
Cruisers Forum
SSCA Discussion Board
Other cruisers:
Anaconda (Dutch)
BeBe
Beyond Reason
Brick House
Dessert First
Indigo
Jammin
Jovietal
Kloosh
Magenta
Saeta
san clés
Spectacle
Ti Corail (French)
Miscellaneous:
Free World Maps Online
Onpassage.com— a one-stop resource for cruising yachts worldwide; it provides information for the experienced blue water sailor as well as for those who are planning their first passage.
ShipTrak—Enter our call sign (WDC6176) to plot our Yotreps position reports on the map of the world.
Travel Health Online
Weekly Piracy Report
World Clock
People and companies:
Pete McGonagle and Cindy Metler at Swiftsure Yachts
Jeff and Heather Rouse at Sceptre Marine
Andrew Roth, who sold our house so that we could sail away!
Cree, Julie, and crew at Berkeley Marine Center
Pineapple Sails made our new main sail.
Staaf Sails made our new jib sail.
All the people who waited on us at Svendsens
Jeff and Laura at Offshore Emergency Medical training
Our snail mail forwarding service is St. Brendan's Isle. If you decide to use them too because you found them here, please tell them we referred you so that we can get a month free.
Politics:
Crooks and Liars
Fivethirtyeight.com
Huffington Post
Mudflats, an anti-Palin blog from Alaska
Radio:
KBPS – Portland's all classical radio station – This is Shirlee's favorite classical radio station in the world, so far. If you like it too, please become a member.
Maritime Mobile Radio Nets
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Sail Mail
Rallys:
Baja Ha-Ha
Atlantic Rally to Europe
Classic Malts Cruise
East Mediterranean Yacht Rally
Weather:
Buoyweather
All West Coast NOAA Forecasts
National Data Bouy Center
Ocean Prediction Center
US Navy Meteorology
Solstice logo