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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clove_hitch | *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clove_hitch | ||
*http://www.cgate.co.il/eng/Seamanship/knots.htm | *http://www.cgate.co.il/eng/Seamanship/knots.htm | ||
| + | ===PC based programs==== | ||
| + | Wiley's free Tide stream calculator is a free download and provides lots of information about tides, ports, navigation, and much more. | ||
| + | [http://www.wileynautical.com/view/0/almanac.html http://www.wileynautical.com/view/0/almanac.html] | ||
Revision as of 20:52, 29 October 2009
Contents
introducionary materials
rule of thirds one was of approximating/simplifying the speed of tidal flow. There is also the 50 90 rule.
Rule of 12s a way of approximating/simplifying the high of the tide
Tide
- Tide Tables for Leisure Users (Monthly Port of London Tide Tables for Walton-on-the-Naze, Margate, Southend-on-Sea, Croyton, Tilbury, North Woolwich and London Bridge).
- http://www.sailtrain.co.uk/navigation/tidal.htm
- http://www.sailtrain.co.uk/navigation/tidal.htm
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide_table
- http://easytide.ukho.gov.uk/EasyTide/EasyTide/index.aspx
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast/tides/index.shtml
Weather
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast/
- http://www.eurometeo.com/english/forecast
- http://www.sailtrain.co.uk/navigation/tidal.htm
- http://www.sailtrain.co.uk/navigation/charts.htm
- http://www.sailtrain.co.uk/navigation/latlong.htm
- http://www.sailtrain.co.uk/navigation/tools.htm
- http://www.sailtrain.co.uk/navigation/bearings.htm
- http://www.sailtrain.co.uk/navigation/distance.htm
- http://www.sailtrain.co.uk/navigation/variation.htm
- http://www.sailtrain.co.uk/navigation/positionplots.htm
- http://www.sailtrain.co.uk/navigation/fixes.htm
- http://www.sailtrain.co.uk/navigation/handbearing.htm
- http://www.sailtrain.co.uk/navigation/sog.htm
- http://www.sailtrain.co.uk/navigation/leeway.htm
- http://www.sailtrain.co.uk/navigation/cts.htm
- http://www.sailtrain.co.uk/navigation/planning.htm
- http://www.sailtrain.co.uk/navigation/passage_making.htm
Lighthouses
- http://www.cgate.co.il/eng/Seamanship/light_house.htm
- http://www.cgate.co.il/eng/Seamanship/quiz_light.htm
Lights/Buoys
- http://www.cgate.co.il/eng/Seamanship/iala_a.htm
- http://www.cgate.co.il/eng/Seamanship/buoy_cardinal.htm
Collision Avoidance
Collision Avoidance at Night
- http://www.64thseascouts.org.uk/html/nav_lights.htm
- http://www.dpi.wa.gov.au/imarine/recboating/1186.asp
- http://www.boat-ed.com/al/handbook/lights.htm
Sound Signals
- http://www.64thseascouts.org.uk/html/rules.htm#sound
- http://paul.readinglitho.co.uk/midshipman/pages/colmnemss.html
Fog Signals
Some practice tests on the above
Knots
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowline
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure-of-eight_knot
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure-of-eight_follow_through
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_turn_and_two_half-hitches
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clove_hitch
- http://www.cgate.co.il/eng/Seamanship/knots.htm
PC based programs=
Wiley's free Tide stream calculator is a free download and provides lots of information about tides, ports, navigation, and much more. http://www.wileynautical.com/view/0/almanac.html
