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)