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Resources

Useful Sailing Sites

  • Seven Seas Cruising Association and SSCA Forum
  • NoonSite (Jimmy Cornell)
  • Soggy Paws
  • Beth Leonard and Evans Starzinger
  • Lin and Larry Pardey
  • Cruiser’s Wiki
  • Cruiser’s Log
  • Ocean Cruising Club
  • Yachts in Transit
  • YOTREPS boat tracking
  • Facebook Groups: Sewing on Boats, Bluewater Sailing and Cruising, Pacific Sailing and Cruising, SSCA, Cooking on Boats, Pressure Cooking on Boats
  • Hawaiian Voyaging Traditions for Traditional Navigation information

Crowd-Sourced Marine Science Projects

  • Sail and Whale
  • Sechi Disk Project
  • Birding Aboard
  • other projects listed by Cornell

Sewing / Material Sites

  • SailRite
  • Sailmaker’s Supply
  • Strap Works
  • Rochford Marine Supply
  • Seattle Fabrics
  • ShadeTree Fabric Shelters (tent poles for awnings)
  • Perfect Fit
  • Sailrite Videos
    • Cap-Spring-Hook-Needle-Bar-Driver-Timing-for-Ultrafeed
    • Presser-Foot-Correlated-with-Feed-Dog-Movement
    • Proper-Cam-Position-on-Ultrafeed
    • Walking-Foot-Adjustment-Up-Down-Fore-Aft

Data / Records

  • Search for Maritime Nets by name
  • Download Sailing Directions
  • John Stevenson s/v Sarah (wonderful spreadsheets w/ macros for all kinds of logs)

Books

Choosing a Boat

  • Understanding Boat Design, Ted Brewer
  • Desirable and Undesirable Characteristics of Offshore Yachts, edited by John Rousmaniere
  • any of the “Handbooks” under Basic Cruising.

Maintenance / Boat Work

  • Boatowner’s Mechanical and Electrical Manual or anything else by Nigel Calder;
  • This Old Boat, Second Edition: Completely Revised and Expanded or anything else by Don Casey;
  • The 12-Volt Bible for Boats, Brotherton and Sherman

Basic Cruising

  • Lin and Larry Pardey: any but especially
    • The Capable Cruiser
    • Self-Sufficient Sailor
    • Cruising in Seraffyn
  • The Voyager’s Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising, Beth Leonard
  • How to Sail Around the World : Advice and Ideas for Voyaging Under Sail, Hal Roth
  • The circumnavigator’s handbook, Dashew/Dashew
  • Nigel Calder’s Cruising Handbook: A Compendium for Coastal and Offshore Sailors, Calder
  • Tropical Cruising Handbook, Smaalders and des Rochers
  • Handbook of Offshore Cruising, Jim Howard
  • Offshore Sailing: 200 Essential Passagemaking Tips, Bill Seifert

Galley / Storage / Provisioning

  • any of the Basic Cruising books above
  • Sail Away!: A Guide to Outfitting and Provisioning for Cruising, Paul Shard
  • The Essential Galley Companion, Amanda Swan Neil
  • Online Galley Advice from 18 cruisers
  • The Boat Galley Blog

Canvaswork / Sewing

  • Sailmaker’s Apprentice, Emiliano Marino
  • The Big Book of Boat Canvas: A Complete Guide to Fabric Work on Boats, Karen Lipe
  • Complete Canvasworker’s Guide, Jim Grant
  • SailRite canvas and sewing supply website
  • Canvas for Cruisers – Julie Gifford

Weather

  • Adlard Coles’ Heavy Weather Sailing, Sixth Edition, Coles
  • Understanding Weatherfax, Mike Harris
  • Heavy Weather Avoidance and Route Design, Lee Chesneau on interpreting 500mb charts
  • Weather Resources Page on SailingPhoenix

Navigation

  • World Cruising Routes, Cornell
  • The Complete On-Board Celestial Navigator, 2007-2011, Bennett
  • The Lo-Tech Navigator, Tony Crowley
  • Boat Navigation for the Rest of Us, Captain Bill Brogdon

Stories and Experiences

  • Once is Enough, Miles and Beryl Smeeton
  • There Be No Dragons: How to Cross a Big Ocean in a Small Sailboat, Reese Palley
  • The Circumnavigators: small boat voyagers of modern times, Don Holm
  • John Guzwell, Bernard Moitessier, Tania Aebi, Robin Knox-Johnston, lots more

Cruising Blogs

(contact me if you want to be added here)

  • Mike Hopper (WXTide software) and Horizon
  • Sailing Totem (Behan Gifford)

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