Rocko Delray Likes to Sail, Explore and Travel

HOORAY!!!!

I finally saved enough money to get my little Tiger hauled and painted.








I found some damage from when Blewtooth and I decided to kiss a rock in the Savannah River one day. As I recall it had happened on my first trip back out to Tybee Roads and there was almost zero wind. We had turned around with the tide at the mouth of the Savannah and made it a liesurely sail back up the river when the wind died completely. I was feeling too lazy to crank the motor up yet so, because it was such a calm day I let my guard down and started chatting with my guest on board as I let Blewtooth just drift along. I'd had a drink or two and after spending so much time outside I had become stupidly relaxed. Suddenly I heard an ever so slight THUNK! I jumped up and looked up to see the "WARNING...Rocks" sign looming above the bimini. We were next to the Elba Island Cut which crosses the Savannah and then jogs just a little to become Fields Cut going north. I was glad my guest weren't paying too much attention and didn't realize that I could have just holed the boat if we had been going any faster. Because I didn't feel much and or it wasn't too loud I felt like the damage if any would be slight (except to my pride) and I was right. However, "slight" winds up being over a hundred bucks when you are in the yard!




It hasbeen over 4 years! But at last she is clean and painted with two coats of Pettite Trinidad.



I don't like ablative paint because of the bad experience I had with Pettite Ultima on Narenba.





Well, after all of that hauling and expensive yard bill, she was put back in the water and I was ready to motor her back up the creeks and through the bridges to her dock on Whitemarsh and wouldn't you know it; the Tohatsu 9.8 finally decided to take a huge crap! I shouldn't complain too much because it has been a very faithful little engine up until the last couple of months. I think it might be because of this ethanol in the gas. I had to clean the carberator in the spring after it stalled out and there was allot of jellified gunk in it.

At any rate, I have taken it to the shop and they say it will be at least two weeks, maybe three before they can order the parts needed ie..water pump kit and probably another carb kit and install them. I am just replacing the water pump because I think I should after five years of service but am concerned that there might be allot of corrosion in the water jacket because of all of the years it was left mounted on the back of the boat with very few freshwater flushings.

I am now going to have to pay for her docking at the boatyard/marina docks as well...ouch!! but at least I will be able to hang out on her and do some cleaning. Also will be nice to tie up next to cruisers and their boats again for a change.

I have done little sailing and am worried about this hurricane season as every boater on the SE coast is. We have been lucky so far and am praying our luck holds yet another season.

Not much else is new.....but ....OH by the way, I did manage to get my Coast Guard Captain's license while rotting here in port. So, with Blewtooth with her new bottom and reworked engine I hope to get back out there again soon!

All the best and happy sailing,
Rocko

Here are a few more links:

USGS Georgia Water Science Center

I recently read the new book about Wanderer by Eric Colonius
Interviews with Wanderer and Clotilde survivors

Archive boat data from Yachtsnet Ltd. online UK yacht brokers - yacht brokerage and boat sales

Small boats, long distances... sailFar.net

Savannah’s Port is the fastest growing port in the USA at the moment. Container ship after container ship constantly comes in and goes out of Tybee Roads. It generates over sixty five billion dollars a year in revenue……That’s right…..SIXTY FIVE BILLION!
It appears the dredge of globalization has put allot of cash in the State’s and Federal Governments pockets.

Just imagine, our comparatively small little river; the Savannah River which when General Oglethorpe and the original Georgia colonist arrived in 1733, was only nine feet deep in some places and averaged about eighteen feet, now accommodates huge container ships and LNG ships that have drafts of well over forty feet. The Savannah has of course been dredged many times; so much so, that the silt that has been pulled from it’s bottom has created allot of high ground on the South Carolina side and the State of South Carolina is now planning to use it for it’s southern most port. It is presently being used as a bird sanctuary. I guess they are just going to squeeze the birds over a little.

Savannah Harbor Expansion Project, problems with river deepening

But there seems to be a problem looming on the horizon. There is apparently, a new. even bigger container ship now plying the waters of the world that has a draft of almost fifty feet. The fear I imagine of the Port of Savannah is that these newer, faster and bigger and deeper ships will become dominant and eventually replace the ones who are using our river now and therefore the Georgia and the new South Carolina ports will loose the business to the deeper harbors of the country so they are planning to dredge the river again to at least fifty feet..

Common Ground - Conservation Partnerships - Savannah River Basin

This has generated allot of concern from environmentalist. The Savannah has the greatest number of native fish species (108) of any river draining into the Atlantic (that info taken from the above link). They say the silt that will be stirred up will do bad things to the fish in the area and I have a friend who is concerned about what it will do to the aquifer. As I understand it, the City of Savannah and surrounding area’s water needs are in large part, fulfilled by an aquifer that stretches all the way up from Florida. My parents own well pulls from it. Theirs goes down eighty feet and the land is about twelve feet above sea level. If their well goes down only eighty feet and they are only twelve or so feet above sea level and just a mile or so from the Savannah river, won’t dredging that originally nine foot river further to almost fifty feet bring us dangerously close to hitting that aquifer?

Floridan Aquifer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

One could only imagine the terrible things that could happen if twenty miles of river was dredged right into an aquifer that supplied some of the drinking water needs for three states (Florida, Georgia and South Carolina)!





Also I wonder about Tybee Roads. This is the area extending several miles off shore that has to be dredged as well and kept dredged or the giant new ships will not even be able to get to the mouth of the Savannah. If you look at the above map those soundings you see are suppose to be in feet, not fathoms! How are they going to keep that area dredged and just how far out will they have to go to accommodate these new leviathans? Will they have to race through only on a certain tide?

There is also concern about the loss of beach sand from Tybee Island. Dredging may worsen this problem.

DrBeach.Org

Well, I’m sure that bigger minds than mine are considering this problem so perhaps I should just go back to sleep. Yawn….

So here are some more sailing links.

Good Sailing,
Rocko

Here's a way to look up some of the Maersk shipping going and coming from a harbor that you might be leaving or entering. Could this possibly come in handy? Especially since these ships are now booming along at twenty plus knots nowadays it might be a good idea to get an idea of what's coming your way just out of radar range.
Maersk Line shipping containers worldwide

I like their idea of a virtual ship:
The Marine Society & Sea Cadets


Yikes! another broken keel:
Hooligan V - full report.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Salvatore has created another website for his Tiger. I think he loves his Tiger as much as I do mine:
westerly.tiger - Westerly Tiger - Dudùdue

Looks like fun....wish I had the bucks:
MAXI YACHT ROLEX CUP 2007

Download the manual for your Tohatsu!
Tohatsu Outboard Technical Information

Looks like unsinkable boats have been around for a long time!
Abora 3 - Sind Sie dabei?

YouTube - Franck Desboyaux tracté par un trimaran

Now this is interesting! Imagine the possibilities for yacht designers. They will be able to put the power plants anywhere in the boat they like and possibly sink that electric motor and prop deeper than any old engine attached to a prop shaft. No more props spinning wildly when the boat comes out of the water in the rough?
Diesel-electric marine propulsion systems and accessories.Diesel-electric marine propulsion systems and accessories.

Ahh! the wonderful and interesting things we like to drop in our own bathtubs:
The Tybee Bomb---Is it a real danger or is the Tybee Island Nuclear Bomb a figment of our government's imagination?

From NOOA:

HURRICANE FELIX FORECAST/ADVISORY NUMBER  12
AT 5 AM EDT...0900 UTC...THE GOVERNMENT OF HONDURAS HAS ISSUED A
HURRICANE WARNING FROM LIMON HONDURAS EASTWARD TO THE
HONDURAS/NICARAGUA BORDER...AND A HURRICANE WATCH FROM WEST OF
LIMON WESTWARD TO THE HONDURAS/GUATEMALA BORDER.
THE WESTERN CARIBBEAN SEA SHOULD CLOSELY
MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF THIS POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC HURRICANE.
HURRICANE CENTER LOCATED NEAR 14.1N  75.9W AT 03/0900Z
PRESENT MOVEMENT TOWARD THE WEST OR 280 DEGREES AT  18 KT

Very little sailing or boating except once to explore the Bull River bridge area. Anchored and rowed the dinghy under the bridge to the Bull River Marina and tied up long enough to walk to a convenience store. It was on the way back that we experienced engine trouble. The current was pushing us home so I decided to use an oar to help. Just like the last time I had motor trouble several boaters in runabouts immediately motored up to offer a tow when they saw me with the oar. I declined the first offer but when we got to a back eddie in the current and were proceeding very slowly I changed my mind and the next time I was offered a tow I took it. They towed us just a half mile or so until we could get well past the eddies and then we continued with the main and oar. It was a slow but languid sail down the creek.

I had just the main up with only a five knot breeze and because the tidal creeks meander this way and that it was sometimes working for me and sometimes not. Blewtooth is around six thousand pounds with all the junk I have in her so basically this idea to move or "maneuver" is certainly doable but not without reservations. Joshua Slocum describes using a sweep in his book and he was on a forty footer with no motor so of course it is a practical idea but one I have had trouble implementing due in large part to not having a long enough oar or "sweep".

I bought an eight foot oar which I have realized is about four feet too short. I paddled with it at first off of the bow, basically changing my direction by simply making enough of a splash to push/pull the bow which ever way but I found it much easier to sit in the cockpit and use sweeping motions. It appears the rudder still had some effect in spite of the fact the current was keeping almost no water flow over it. Or, perhaps it is just the way Blewtooth is balanced and the way she sits in the water that gives better control.

So, my plan now is to buy a twelve foot oar and try it again. Also considering a yulow but I think it would be too difficult to stow. It will be hard enough with an oar.

It will provide something to use for emergency steering as well as auxlillary power. Another good reason for not having too large a boat. The more I know Blewtooth will be able to move whether the motor is running or not will add to my overall confidence and embolden me to sail to more places.

Here are more links I have been collecting:

I'd like to have one made specifically for a Westerly Tiger but would probably be too expensive?
Welcome to Sawyer Paddles and Oars

http://www.brownellboat.com/stands.htm

Bateaux autour du monde - Sail The World - L'Univers de la grande croisière en voilier - STW

Welcome to AIWA

Not trying to be sarcastic in showing this one but it just seems to reveal the contrast between two worlds:
YouTube - The Love Boat

NOAA Graphical Forecast for CONUS Area

Six garçons dans le vent !

Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before, by Tony Horwitz

I wonder if my back would be able to handle one of these? Just looks like so much fun:
Olimpic Sailing 470 Class Video

Funny! What a classic:
YouTube - What About Bob Clip 3

Greatest Blunders In Boating, Yachting, Shipping, Sailing. Video

Labels: sailing

Atlantic, Carribean and Gulf of Mexico Tropical Weather Outlook There are no Tropical Cyclones at this time

picture from Wikapedia
Homeland Security has been on the job again, capturing this menacing looking craft in New York harbour.

I'm sure the headlines will be stupendous on Fox news. "Terrorist Attack once again foiled!" or something like that!

News - Mystery Submarine Causes Security Scare - AOL News

Turns out the guy is an artist and has spent a great deal of time and effort recreating Robert Fulton's submarine the "Turtle"

No. 304: Fulton's Submarine

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...........................................Anchored PGA Blvd Northend of Lake Worth




So, here are a few more links today. Not much boat/sailing surfing for me lately because I have been studying for a tour guide test! Passed it!!!
Good Old Boat: Classified ads

Been musing about Trimarans lately:
Astus 20.1 Trimaran Overview

What an idea!
harryproa/elementarry

Bio of Yacht Designer Carl Alberg
History


Off to work

Good Sailing

Rocko

                           Found:  One small sea serpent

ABNT20 KNHC 300205
TWOAT
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
1030 PM EDT SUN JUL 29 2007

FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...

A BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE...CENTERED ROUGHLY 300 MILES
WEST-SOUTHWEST OF BERMUDA...CONTINUES TO PRODUCE DISORGANIZED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WESTERN ATLANTIC OCEAN. 
ALTHOUGH UPPER-LEVEL WINDS ARE NOT PARTICULARLY FAVORABLE FOR
FURTHER ORGANIZATION TONIGHT...THIS SYSTEM STILL HAS SOME
POTENTIAL FOR TROPICAL OR SUBTROPICAL DEVELOPMENT OVER THE NEXT
COUPLE OF DAYS AS IT MOVES NORTH-NORTHEASTWARD AT 10 TO 15 MPH.
HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM COULD OVERSPREAD BERMUDA
OVERNIGHT.  PLEASE SEE PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR LOCAL WEATHER
SERVICE OFFICE FOR MORE DETAILS.
ELSEWHERE...TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED DURING THE
NEXT 48 HOURS.
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FORECASTER BLAKE

Could be moving into the Chesapeake or further north?

Well, yes I have been doing some avid beachcombing lately.  To me it  is better
than yoga for relaxation.  Gives great exercise and you can find interesting things
(interesting things to me anyway)  Yeah that's right, I am easily entertained. 
A piece of rope in the sand, shells with strange shapes and colors....that's all
I need man to amuse myself for a while.

More Links:

Search and Find a Boat, Yacht or Ship

The Hurricane Watch Net

Ultra-Lightweight Lithium Batteries

Welcome to Capitan Ashton Web Page (World Circumnavigation Voyage)

More stuff I found by waking up way too early and not trying to go back to sleep. 
When am I gonna learn!

Good Sailing,
Rocko

Atlantic - Caribbean Sea - Gulf of Mexico
There are no tropical cyclones at this time
Eastern Pacific (out to 140°W)
Tropical Storm DALILA
National Hurricane Center

Luddite!

What an awful sounding name for someone who doesn't like engines!

Luddite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And now "Neo Luddiism"!
Luddism

But they keep saying "hatred of NEW technology" in their description. Well what then describes me? I don't hate new technology; I embrace it. I love the new solar, wind and electric motor technology. It's the old crap that I hate. Gas and deisel engines and especially those without polution controls which the boat builders along with Home Depot and Wallmart (lawn care equipment) are selling with wild abandon.

What brought all of this on this morning was my glancing at the BBC news headlines and finding the below article:

BBC NEWS | Health | Diesel pollution 'clogs arteries'


Planet Ark : Diesel fuel exhaust likely to cause cancer - US EPA

And so getting back to the subject of sailing, how many of us love the idea of sailing along our coast; wheather it be east, west, south or north; trying to get from port A to port B when the wind is contrary and we have to turn on the engine and start our motor sailing routine? Usually no deisel or gas fumes to worry about with the wind off any points on our bow but every time we tack or what have you we will be getting a little wiff here and there of that good old deisel smell. That smell usually brings a feeling of adventure in me. I guess just associating it with "going somewhere" and the general excitment of traveling. But when we drop the sails and motor our way through the inlet and are calling the marina on the radio we all start to smell it. Then we breath those fumes as they waft around us from our transoms and we don't even notice it. It's mixed with all of that fresh air from the sea. Then the rest of the times motoring up the ICW or rivers, canals and byways; waiting for the bridge to open and so on; motoring into the marinas.

Just how much of it are we picking up?

And of course for those of us with outboards and A4s:

Gasoline fumes have 1000 times the concentration recommended by NIOSH. ... It causes liver cancer, with a latency period is 15 to 40 years. ...
consumerlawpage.com/article/cancer.shtml - 21k -
The Cancer War Needs An Informed Public: Known Carcinogens To Be Avoided

None of our engines have any type of pollution control that I know of. I guess we all just think "Hey it's a sailboat for crying out loud!" but it's really not. It is an "Auxillary" sailboat that 99% of us are on. Neither does our lawn equipment, generators etc.


Lawn mowers, Weed Eaters, Leaf Blowers
"Another source claims that operating a gas mower for one hour will produce the same pollution as driving a car 1300 miles. (Note 4)"
Lawn Mower Pollution


I don't know how else to describe my views though. I am just really getting tired of people's attitudes (especially young people's) about technology. I know that it is completely impractical to hope that we will all stop wanting the most powerfull car, motorcycle or boat. But jeez! When is everyone going to realize that we could solve so much of our pollution problems just by cutting back a little bit. We could become so much more powerful in bargaining for energy from all of the oil producing countries if we weren't such energy addicts.

Most Powerful Diesel Passenger Car

The pollution from internal combustion engines is choking us to death. I hate the fact that the grass on every consumer's lawn needs to be cut constantly in the summer with one of the worlds most effiecient pollution machines; the lawn mower which has no catalitic converter, nor does the weed eater or leaf blower which also throws up as much dust as possible into our air and of course it is the dust that is full of the latest fertilizers and pesticides that have been scattered on the ground. So that along with all of the pollen finds it's way into our lungs as we dart from our air conditioned cars to our air conditioned homes that all are becoming hermitically sealed against the "outside" air with new weather stripping and heavy insullation and such.

UMU.Asthma.7.21.02.PDF (application/pdf Object)


Then we can't understand why our kids are all comming down with asthma. Just sad to know how non carring the western consumer is. Now wait a minute...I'm not trying to compare the western consumer to anyone else in the world. God knows what anyone else in Africa or some small village in the hinterlands of India thinks or cares about it. It's just that we are supposed to be the enlightened ones and instead we are acting like someone who is completely non caring....sacrificing the future of our children for our immediate creature comfort needs.

Well, ......................................I'll shut up and quit whinning......

And on a lighter note here is some more evidence of my aimless clicking on sailing stuff and a travel blog sent to me by a friend:

Boat Shows Coast To Coast : Boat Show Calendar and Directory

I always liked the looks of a San Juan
San Juan Sailboat Photo Gallery

A Sailing Cruise to Florida's Panhandle

Couple says the were not lost at sea
Latitude 38 - Northern California's Premier Sailing and Marine Magazine

Travel blog page
Emerald Bay

Good Sailing and Traveling
Rocko

Monday July 9th 2007

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
530 AM EDT MON JUL 9 2007
FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...
TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS.
FORECASTER BLAKE

HATING HOLIDAYS!



OK, Hating holidays? What I mean by holidays, of course is the spots that were left accidentally un-painted in any painting project. My old Navy chiefs used to growl at us new swabs that any holidays would not be looked upon favorably (to paraphrase).

So, I have been staring at one particular holiday for quite a while as I lay on my back on the settee in Blewtooth's main cabin. For two years now it has been taunting me. It has been there to greet me when I opened my eyes on countless mornings and countless naps.

Yesterday afternoon I had finally had it. I jumped up with a start and steeled myself to go after it. So here is the blow by blow of the battle which ensued:

In my haste and desperation I have used the cheapest glossy white spray paint that Walmart has to offer. $1.20 I wonder how long it will be before it comes back to haunt me?





Looking at glacier white glossy paint to me is somehow very satisfying; especially as the day began to heat up.

Finished project above:

But my painting blood was still up! I looked around for some other holiday that had been antagonizing me for so many years and then I remembered:

THE TOP OF THE TOPLESS DANCER POLE!


And at last haaaaaaaa!!!
No more embarrassing sloppy paint jobs.

No more embarrassing the dancers by having to swing on a badly painted pole!










They have been complaining about that for a while now.
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Also, since I have been painting I have been musing over the idea of putting headliners back in the cabin. I have had such bad experiences with them over the years that I have always shied away from it.

However I just found this suggestion for a good headliner material on the Westerly forum:

Welcome! - Quality Marine Upholstery - Toomer & Hayter, Quality Marine Upholstery

And here is some examples of the material they offer:
Mystic Marine Headlining Material - Toomer & Hayter, Quality Marine Upholstery
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Here is another offer for chart readers found on one of the forums:

Free Boating Charts





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Sunday, July 8th 2007

OK, Does this sail look like it has a good shape?

Comments welcome

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
1030 PM EDT SAT JUL 7 2007
FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...
TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS.
FORECASTER BLAKE

Getting a hankering to go fishing again. Purchased some tackle last evening from WalMart and have been fixing my two rod and reels up. New twenty pound test on my small rod and fifty on the Penn Beachmaster.

Building your own oars:
How to make your own oars

Oars, homebuilt and cheap


Viking Boats!
Viking Boats - Traditional Viking boat builders in Ullapool

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SATURDAY, JULY 7TH 2007

Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook: NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 530 AM EDT SAT JUL 7 2007 FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH A TROPICAL WAVE WILL MOVE INTO THE SOUTHERN WINDWARD ISLANDS THIS MORNING. THE WAVE IS MOVING W AT 15 TO 20 MPH. TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS.

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AT LAST! I have a name for my Walker Bay Dinghy:
"Baby Tooth"
What do you think?
(You see the mother ship is named "Blewtooth")














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OK; it's time to start worrying a little about Huricanes. Here is the site I will be checking everyday from now until November:

National Hurricane Center


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IN BAD NEED OF A HAUL OUT
The problem is the yards around Savannah all want well over a grand to haul out, pressure wash and paint with THEIR paint instead of Trinidad. If I want Trinidad it will cost me extra!
In the mean time, now that the water is warm again I am swimming around Blewtooth and attacking what growth I can get to with a garden hoe (works well and has allot of reach). Few barnicles but awful jelly like, marble shaped things that are filled with some mucousy substance are growing like crazy on her bottom. Easy to knock off but just damn yucky!

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FANTASTIC FINNISH!!!!
What a great America's Cup....not that I am a super racing afficianodo but this AC was highly entertaining. I understood most all of it. The great play by play/graphics was informative and kept it exciting throughout the whole race. I am now dreaming about a trip to Spain in four years to join the spectator fleet to watch the Swiss defend. I wonder if they will be racing Alinghi again?

Nice Edited Video of Final Race
YouTube - The Final Race - Alinghi Vs Emirates Team New Zealand

32nd America's Cup Official Website - Alinghi wins the 32nd America's Cup...by one second!

32nd America's Cup Official Website

AmericasCupAnywhere by Alcatel-Lucent - Live Sailing (Internet)

Valencia, Spain by Jorge Pellicer - Google 3D Warehouse

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MORE LINKS:

NOAA's Free Chart Readers
Office of Coast Survey - Electronic Navigational Charts, Resources

Torqueedo Electric Outboards
TQ_katalog_2006_engl.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Weather where you sail
SailFlow.com - CA- los angeles Wind Data

SDCOOS: San Diego Coastal Ocean Observing System

FNMOC WXMAP

The Sailing Life On The Río Dulce

Rigging repair at-sea - SailNet Community

Discount Marine and Boat Supplies - Inflatable Sales - Defender

The Rescue Channel

The Rescue Channel: Atlantic Fury

Robin Storm: May 31, 2007

4sailors.com - NEWS MAIN - Missing Sailors - Flying Colours

Eugene Kashpureff family boats on Kashpureff.ORG

EarthNC Marine Charts for Google Earth | EarthNC Inc

Celestaire, Inc.: Sky Scout

Welcome to The Cyber Slip of Cape Dory 28 TANTALUS

RED DIESEL ISSUES IN EUROPE
RYA - www.rya.org.uk - Using UK purchased red diesel in other EU states

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Introducing another Westerly Tiger owner today!
Salvatore Di Rosa and his blog about:
Dudùdue his Tiger.
She looks really great Salvatore. The Mediterranean must be a fantastic sea to sail!
I know you are going to have many great days of fun on her.

Also, Salvatore is trying to get us Tiger owners to talk to each other. There are only four of us so far. Hopefully we will get more of us creating blogs or web pages about our boats.
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New site and video link shown by Latitude 38:

Scuttlebutt Video: French sailing

I wish this video was shown on American TV. Just think how much sailing you could promote if the kids got fed a diet of this every day instead of watching the same lame car commercials. Our world would start to be a cleaner place. Just imagine kids salivating over kite boards instead of rice burners. Pot bellied old baby boomers thumbing through catalogues for the latest sailing/rowing dinghies instead of Harleys ATVS and SUVs. Twenty somethings dreaming about impressing their girls with one of those new catamarans instead of a Hummer.

Oh Well, maybe one day

Rocko
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MORE SAILING LINKS:



YouTube - Ronstan sailing video

BERMUDA NEWS THE ROYAL GAZETTE

State Of Maryland Tide Finder

Guy Shoots Himself In The Head With Flare Gun Video

Nautical Woman - Shop nautical cargo, live the coastal boating lifestyle - live the life, live the love

Marine Diesels - detailed technical information.


Cargo Ship Collision With Bridge


The Wally A.k.a. Boat Of Awesome Video

----FORT JACKSON SAVANNAH-----


Runaway Sea Sounds and Imagination
Rocko Delray


An account of a grounding (Morgan 46) in the Keys
From the log of the yacht Flying Pig

VIDEO
Boost wifi range for laptop
Funny

Georgia Marshland wins a 25' battle

The Cruising Club of America


Trailor Sailor Forum (Very friendly and good for smaller sailboat crowd) http://bbs.trailersailor.com/forums/trailersailor/index.cgi

SSCA - Seven Seas Cruising Association - The Largest Cruising Organization In The World

VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuRvujRFsjY
Sailing in the Surf Hobie Tigers surfing.

The Cruising Club of America Seamanship Page




HEADING FOR THE GULFSTREAM FL



Abandoned Wrecks
http://www.opacity.us/gallery87_wrecks.htm


Frequencies, Nets, WX Schedules and Tables (updated July 2006)


Battery Types
http://www.vonwentzel.net/Battery/01.Type/index.html


Lake Champlain Canal Boats and Wrecks
http://ina.tamu.edu/LCcanalboats.htm


Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7LTubYoSBY&NR
Extreme 505

New One Hundred Dollar Laptop for 3rd World...Maybe for cruisers too someday?

Army Boat Grounding $80,000 bill for captain
http://www.ptreyeslight.com/stories/may19_05/shipwreck.html

Very Interesting Duo Gen Water / Wind Generator Combo
http://www.duogen.co.uk/video.htm

Denys_Rayner Founder of Westerly Yachts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denys_Rayner

Ampair.com Wind, Solar, Water Power
http://www.ampair.com/ampair/



Boat Crash
http://www.seeitornot.faketrix.com/crash-pictures-78-boat-wreck-two-water-craft-crash.htm


VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcIBlkz7f10
Chris Columbus video with Rod Stewart tune I am Sailing From zgqzgq


Emarine Inc Wind Generators Solar Panels and other parts and supplies
http://www.emarineinc.com/













WesterlyOwnersForum
http://www.westerly-owners.co.uk/woabb/viewforum.php?f=1&sid=3b4f5aaf964cc16c16616445eada23c1


Cruising Sailors Bulletin Board
http://www.cs-bb.com/forums/CSBB/index.cgi


aboutsailing.com
http://sailing.about.com/

VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKvhPxLpeQs
Nacra F18 Sailing

South West Wind Power Air X Marine Wind Generator
http://www.emarineinc.com/products/wind_generators/airxmarine.html


Great Pictorial of different sailing ships
http://www.njscuba.net/artifacts/ship_sailing_ship.html

Wrecks and shipfinds in Norway
http://www.abc.se/~pa/uwa/wreck-no.htm

Coast Guard Float Plan
http://floatplan.uscgaux.info

Whale slams into sailboat
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/3164413.stm


VIDEO
Beach Day very windy


Air X Marine Wind Generator as sold by Northern Tool
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_200326891_200326891


The last stand of the Tin Can Sailors
http://www.tincansailorsbook.com/


Tides Page
http://www.tidesonline.com/station.php?stationname=SavannahRiverEnt

Yacht Crews Wanted
http://www.crewseekers.net/


Sun Rise and Sunset page
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html?n=623

VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OYV0chVUUU
Moth Sailing Dinghy-Great Britain- Moth Foilers

The Sailing Crew
http://www.apparent-wind.com/sailing-crew.html


NOAAs Buoy Data Site
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/


VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-yQpwht1bY&NR
more yacht racing From lesterjohnson

ApparentWind.Com
http://www.apparent-wind.com/

---------------------ANCHORED RIVIERA BEACH


Sail Timer Tacking Software
http://www.theoriginalsailtimer.com/

Many Large Sailing Ships links
http://www.apparent-wind.com/sailing-page.html


Weather Site with Gulfstream Maps (Very Good)
http://www.wxadvantage.com/

San Francisco Sailing.com
http://www.sfsailing.com/


Morse Code site and good training software
http://www.cq2k.com/

Morse Code translater (Very cool!)
http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html

Cruiser Log Forum
http://www.cruiserlog.com/forums/


VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4BCSKTbB98
Trimarans - Lunatic Sailing From LiveSailDie



Marine Jobs offshore employment
http://www.marinejobs1.com/

Donna Lange (Intrepid Solo Sailor just round Horn)
http://www.donnalange.com/home.html

VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-PpU8MUbHE
this is yacht racing From lesterjohnson


Salinity Test
http://www.qacps.k12.md.us/cms/sci/testsal.htm#test

Bird Identification Page
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/

VIDEO
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/273363/windrave_sailboat/

Raster Charts from NOAA (Very important)
http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/Raster/resources.htm



Free Cruising Log
http://www.cruiser.co.za/host.asp

Ships of the Sea Museum in Savannah GA

Cruiser's Companion AKA Float Plan Page

Lectronic Latitude

Maritime Mobile Service Network
Bosun's Supplies (rigging and hardware)

VIDEO
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/283770/seacart_30_two_handed_sailing/

Single Handed Sailing Society (racing)

VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o9golmHmo4&NR
49er Sailing

Oar Club Forum

VIDEO
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/217918/sailing_strait_dealer/

Cruising Guide for the Thorney Path from Carribean Compas


VIDEO
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/307379/wild_and_wet_model_sailing/


Compas (The Carribean's Monthly Marine Magazine)

VIDEO
Cape Disappointment USCG
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/358144/wild_boatride/



ONLINE STORE
PYACHT.NET

http://www.bethandevans.com/
http://www.bethandevans.com/links.htm (Even more links from their site!)

http://www.sailingbreezes.com/
Sailboatowners.com

Video

http://www.teesships.freeuk.com/index.htm
welcomes all ship enthusiasts

VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o9golmHmo4&NR
49R Sailing

Weather where you sail site
http://www.sailflow.com/


VIDEO
Anchored Jupiter Rocko Delray

http://www.sailsarana.com/Nav_Info/noonsite.htm
Navigation by noon site Very interesting site

http://www.marlinbree.com/



Local Notice to Mariners CG site Important!


USCG Light List (Important!)
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pubs/LightLists/LightLists.htm


VIDEO
Becalmed off of Canaveral..Rocko Delray



http://www.nlmoc.navy.mil/cgi-bin/main.pl?ocean
Gulfstream currents can be found on this page

Caro Coops another buoy data site
http://nautilus.baruch.sc.edu/carocoops_website/index.php


VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTQ02vI4xt4&NR
470 spinnaker drop



amazon.com/ Book about Stone Age Mariners
Wake of JOMO I haven't read it yet but looks good

VIDEO
SPAG Tower just off of Grays Reef almost there: Rocko Delray


amazon.com Book: A Speck on the Sea
Looks interesting


VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDToL593cmU
Racing Collection of funny moments in sailing.


AIS Overview Coast Guard Site
What is the Automatic Identification System (AIS)?


Selected Caribbean
Shortwave Weather Reports from Caribbean Compass


VIDEO
Sailing to Jupiter Rocko Delray


NavRules for Windows© home page
Excellent Site! The Official "NavRules for Windows" Home Page

Robert E White Marine Instruments

Integrated Publishing
Vector Charts and Ploters


Integrated Publishing
Excellent Site Chock full of stuff!

Grog's Rope Care Index
Animated Knots by Grog

Navy Surplus
Department of Defense Reutilization
And Marketing

Coastal Observation Lab at Rutgers University
Coastal Ocean Observation Lab - Rutgers University

Current Velocities of the Gulf Stream (DEOS)
DEOS: Current velocities of the Gulf Stream

Bellingham Chart Printers: Discounted Nautical Charts & Reproductions, Electronic Charts & Navigational Software

OceanGrafix

Bluewater Books and Charts

VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DSVYGHVCsk
RC Flying Boat AMAZING!


Bowditch Online
Bowditch -The American Practical Navigator

Free Compass Roses

NOAA Tides and Currents - Home

[World Tidal Site Selection]

Site Selection: U.S. Lower East Coast (North Carolina through Florida Keys)



Welcome to Bulwagga Marine Anchors

Sailing Magazine : Full

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTWIM25uycg&NR
Cargo Ship Heavy Weather


Cruising World Magazine

Anchoring info at Al's Software Sailing Page

Sailnet

Shiptalk

Aerial Photos and info of Marinas
Marinas.com

BoatOwners.com

MOB Stories (grim accounts)

Tide 28