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 blog host. It has some free features that we really need, especially the ability to post blog entries via e-mail.
- 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.
- Sail Mail – The service that allows us to send e-mail via our SSB radio.
- Skype – Call us over the Internet. For computer-to-computer calls, it's free.
- Cruising:
- Books and guides:
- Jimmy Cornell's World Cruising Routes
provides essential information for planning passages and arriving at foreign ports.
- Reed's various almanacs
- Changing Course: A Woman's Guide to Choosing the Cruising Life
- Mexico Boating Guide
- Waggoner Cruising Guide 2011: The Complete Boating Reference
. 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)
- Aquila
- Avocette of Portsmouth
- BeBe
- Beyond Reason
- Brick House
- Dessert First
- Islay Mist
- Jammin
- Jinja (Hebrew with a Google translate button)
- Jovietal
- Juno
- Kloosh
- Magenta
- Saeta
- sans clés
- Spectacle
- Squander
- Ti Corail (French)
- Miscellaneous:
- Flag Identifier, a handy flag identification tool
- Free World Maps Online
- ShipTrak—Enter our call sign (WDC6176) to plot our Yotreps position reports on the map of the world.
- Travel Health Online
- 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
- NPR, National Public Radio
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- 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
