SeaKayakTrainingReferences

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

Navigation

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

http://www.64thseascouts.org.uk/html/rules.htm#collision

Collision Avoidance at Night

http://www.64thseascouts.org.uk/html/rules.htm#colnight

Navigation Lights

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

http://www.64thseascouts.org.uk/html/rules.htm#fog

Some practice tests on the above

http://www.usboating.com/

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