New or Changed Links
Anchor Express (Online retailer of marine electronics and GPS equipment, Quincy, Massachusetts)
Any-Port (Wireless broadband for yachts)
Aqua-Vu (Tiny remote underwater video cameras)
At Sea Electronics, Inc. (US and international distributor for marine radio/tv entertainment antenna systems manufactured by Naval Electronics AB of Malmo, Sweden)
AutoNav Marine Systems Inc. (Marine computers, network instruments, autopilots)
Bethel Marine Electronics Inc. (A Florida based retail and wholesale marine electronics dealer for all major brands of equipment)
BlackWatch Marine (Online sales of gauges and instruments)
BlueRay Marine Boating Security Systems
Bluewater Books & Charts (Navigation instruments)
Brunei Bay Radio (HF radio and HF e-mail services for recreation vessels in Asia, the NW Pacific, and Indian Ocean)
Celestaire Marine and Air Navigation Instruments (Navigation computers)
Centroid Products (Maker of computerized tank gauges)
Cape Compass (Complete magnetic compass service, West Falmouth, Massachusetts)
CruzPro Electronic Boat Instruments, Alarms and Monitors
Dave's Marine Electronics (Online store)
Dockyard Electrics (Sales of electronics and accessories, Chaguaramas, Trinidad)
exoMarine (Online sales of gauges and instruments)
Faria Instruments (Engine monitoring gauges and meters)
Ferriello Sales LLC (Exclusive distributor for New Providence Marine Systems Profile Series tank monitors, Ivins, UT)
FindAnyManual.com (PDF copies of manuals for marine electronics)
FloScan Instrument Company, Inc. (Manufacturer of fuel flow instrumentation for diesel and gasoline engines, Seattle)
Furuno USA, Inc. (Radar, fish finders, radios, etc.)
Global Wireless (HF radio maritime communications service provider)
Glomex (Radio, TV & GPS antennas, cables and accessories, Italy)
GPS Receiver Manufacturers, System Integrators, Equipment Suppliers, and Service Providers (Listing provided by the Canadian Space Geodesy Forum and the University of New Brunswick)
Guardian Instruments (Line tension and payout monitors, crane load monitoring instruments)
Hamilton Global Management (Navigation equipment wholesaler, Latvia)
H. F. Radio On Board (Equipment for marine SSB, HAM, satellite, e-mail)
Humminbird (Manufacturer of fishfinders, GPS, radios and accessories)
Information Management Consultants Ltd. (IMC, maritime data communications, satellite communications & software, internet connections)
Inmarsat (Global mobile satellite communications)
J & H Products (Marine electronics sales)
JTH Electronics (Specializing in the sales of marine electronics, New Jersey)
Klein Associates Inc. (Manufacturer of side scan sonar systems, sub-bottom profilers and related instruments and accessories, Salem, New Hampshire)
Knotstick Sailboat Speedometers (Simple, inexpensive strain measuring chip logs)
Landfall Navigation (Navigation equipment)
Litton Guidance & Control Systems (G&CS, a developer and producer of inertial navigation systems for military applications)
Lowrance Electronics, Inc. (Sonar, GPS, and aviation electronics)
Magellan Systems (GPSs)
Marble Marine Electronics (Manufacturer of electronic equipment for commercial ships, the Netherlands)
Marine Computing International Ltd. (Navigation software and hardware)
The Marine Electronics Homepage (A Guide to marine electronics companies, sites and information around the world)
The Marine Electronics Webring
MarineNet (Radio to internet high speed marine messaging services)
MarinersXchange (Marine consignment store, Steveston, British Columbia)
Marine Sonic Technology, Ltd. (Side scan sonar systems)
Maritec (AIS products & technology, Pretoria, South Africa)
Maritime Mobile Service Network (Amateur radio third party communications network)
The Maritime Radio Historical Society
Moor Electronics (Sailing & trolling instruments)
National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA)
Naval Marine TV Antennas (Marine TV antenna systems for Navy, merchant shipping, work boats and fine yachts)
Nest Wireless (Wireless internet systems, Guernsy)
NorCross Marine Products (Maker of portable fish finders and depth sounders)
North Sea Navigator, Inc. (Magnetic compasses, compass adjusting service, clocks, barometers, sextants, plotting tools, charts, binoculars, radar reflectors, etc.)
Ockam Instruments (For racing sailboats)
PartMiner (An open resource for researching electronic components and devices)
Pinpoint Systems International (Navigation hardware and software)
Quest Telecom International (Satellite communications systems)
Richard Paul Russell Limited (Pocket anemometers)
SailMail (Email services for yachts via marine HF SSB radio)
Saint Brendan's Isle (Mail, message and chandlery service to cruising clients who are living and traveling aboard their boats)
Satellite Radio Review (Reviews and receiver sales)
Scantron Ltd. (Seascan and Echoplus ground discrimination systems that interface with existing echosounders and plotters)
Servicios Nauticos SRL (Raytheon, Garmin, Shakespeare dealer, Colonia, Uruguay)
Shakespeare Composites & Electronics (Radios, fiberglass reinforced composite antennas)
Simrad AS (Manufacturer of Simrad, Shipmate, Robertson and Navico Marine electronics
Snake River Electronics (Maker of Acugage tank level monitoring systems)
Speedtech Instruments (Windspeed, waterspeed and depth gauges)
Star Marine Depot (Online sales of marine electronics)
Stratos (Marine satellite services, mobile satellite communications)
Telson Communications (GPS navigation equipment)
Thomas Distributing (NiMH batteries, chargers, etc.)
Transas (Maker of navigation systems)
Trimble Navigation Limited ("The GPS Solution")
The University of Rhode Island Foundation (Marine electronics and other miscellaneous equipment for sale)
US Coast Guard Maritime Telecommunications Information
Waterman Services ("Suppliers of computer solutions for the mariner", Vancouver, BC)
Waypoint (Computers, navigation equipment)
The Wireless Watchman (An onboard monitoring software security system based on GPS that tracks a boat twenty four hours a day seven days a week)
www.measureANYTHING.com (Online sales of instruments to measure anything - flow, temperature, pressure, voltage, gas, more)
Xantic (Satellite communications service provider)
The 2009 IFDS World Blind Sailing Championships (March 12-21, Lake Rotorua, New Zealand)
The Alcan Dragon Boat Festival (Vancouver, British Columbia, June 21-22, 2008)
The Antique Outboard Motor Club Upcoming Events Schedule
The Australian Offshore Challenge (A motorboat navigational rally from Hobart to Melbourne, February 21-March 2, 2008)
The Australian Wooden Boat Festival (February in odd-numbered years, Hobart, Tasmania)
The Baltimore Wooden Boat Festival (The last weekend in May, County Cork, Ireland)
The Big Lagoon Messabout (May 10-11, 2008, Humboldt County, California)
The Billy Creel Gulf Coast Wooden Boat Show (Every May, Biloxi, Mississippi)
BoatsAfloat.com (An online boat show and maritime event directory)
The Boston Antique & Classic Boat Festival (Every August, Salem, Massachusetts)
The Brentwood Bay Open Boat Festival (September 18-20, 2009, Vancouver Island, British Columbia)
Canoe-Info (Northwest native canoe journey & paddle event news, schedules, announcements, and more)
The Columbia 150 (A boating/camping event for small boats, Beacon Rock to Cape Disappointment, August 10-14, 2009)
The Columbia River Summer Solstice Messabout (June 19-21, 2009, Caterpillar Island, near Vancouver, Washington)
Coniston Power Boat Records Week (Early November, Coniston Water, England)
The Cowichan Bay Boat Festival (Third Saturday in June, British Columbia)
The Crinan Classic Boat Festival (July 2-5, 2009, Argyll, Scotland)
The Deer Harbor Wooden Boat Rendezvous (Tuesday to Thursday after Labor Day, Orcas Island, Washington)
The Depoe Bay Wooden Boat Festival and Crab Feed (April 18-19, 2009, Depoe Bay, Oregon)
The Dinghy Cruising Association Holy Island (Lindisfarne) Rally (At the end of every May, Northeast England)
The Eastern Messabout (June 27-29, 2008, Kingston, New York)
The Fern Ridge Lake Spring Small Boat Messabout (An informal gathering of sail, human, electric and low powered boats and those who love them, the weekend before Memorial Day, near Eugene, Oregon)
The Fisher Poets Gathering (Poetry readings by fishing industry-related men and women, February 27-March 1, 2009, Astoria, Oregon)
Fish Expo WorkBoat Atlantic (Industry trade show, April 9-10, 2008, Providence, Rhode Island)
The Florida 120 (Adventure/raid/expedition along the Florida coast, May 14-17, 2009)
The Gas Engine and Antique Reproduction Show (GEARS, an exhibition of model engineering and home machining, September 22-23, Portland, Oregon)
The Georgetown Wooden Boat Show (Georgetown, South Carolina, every October)
The Georgian Bay, Parry Sound Tugfest (The last weekend in August, Ontario)
The Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race (October 15-18, 2008)
The Great Lakes Scale Model Boat Show (July, Toledo, Ohio)
The Greenport Maritime Festival (Every September, Greenport, New York)
Hanse Sail (Sailing ship gathering in Rostock, Germany, every August)
International Talk Like A Pirate Day (September 19)
The International WorkBoat Show (Starts the last Friday in November, New Orleans)
The James River Batteau Festival (June 15-16, 2007, Virginia)
A Kayak & Canoe Race Calendar for California
The Kingston, Ontario Amateur Boat Messabout
Klassiker Regatten Laboe (Classic boat race, every August in the Firth of Kiel, Germany)
The Koh Samui International Regatta (Every May, Koh Samui, Thailand)
The Lake Conroe Messabouts (At the Conroe Yacht Club, near Houston, Texas)
The Lake Pepin Messabout (Minnesota, June 5-7, 2009)
The Lake Powell Messabout Mailing List (Plotting a September get-together)
The Lake Rotoiti Parade of the Wooden Boats (Every February, North Island, New Zealand)
The Langesund International Shantyfestival (The first weekend in June, Langesund, Norway)
The McKenzie River Wooden Boat Festival (Vida, Oregon)
The Madisonville Wooden Boat Festival (October 21-22, 2006, Madisonville, Louisiana)
The Mahone Bay Classic Boat Festival (The end of July, Nova Scotia)
The Maine Boatbuilders Show (Every March, Portland)
Marintec China (Biennial maritime conference and exhibition, late November or early December, odd years, Shanghai)
The Mercer Island ArtBoat Festival & Picnic (A public fine art exhibition of functional boats as sculpture, July 11, 2009)
The Merrimac Memorial Regatta (May, Portsmouth, Virginia)
The Mobility Cup (Canadian regatta for disabled sailors, August 25-29, 2008, Montreal)
The Montague Harbour Small Boat Rendezvous (May 29-31, 2009, Galiano Island, British Columbia)
The Northwest Steam Society Annual Meet (August 9-11, 2009, Blaine, Washington)
Olympia Harbor Days (Tug boat races, every Labor Day weekend)
The Open Boat Festival at Brentwood Bay (British Columbia, September)
Pacific Marine Expo (November 15-17, 2007, Seattle)
Paddle Oregon (August 17-21, 2009, Willamette River, Oregon)
The Pirates Cove Wood Boat Festival (Every May, Josephine, Alabama)
The Port of Toledo Wooden Boat Show (August 15-16, 2009, Toledo, Oregon)
The Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival (The weekend after Labor Day, Washington)
The Puget Sound Traditional Small Craft Society Events Calendar
Raid Finland (A long distance race for classic small open boats without the assistance of motors, July)
Sail Boston 2009 (Sailing ship visitation, Massachusetts, July 8-13)
Sail Caledonia (An annual expedition or "raid" across the Scottish Highlands for boats powered by sail and oars, May 24-31, 2008)
The Scottish Islands Peaks Sailing and Fell Running Race (A combined running and sailing race for seagoing yachts and fell runners, every May)
The Scottish Traditional Boat Festival (Portsoy, July 2-5, 2009)
Semaine du Golfe (Traditional boat festivals in 15 different places on and around the Gulf of Morbihan, Brittany, May)
The Shipyard School Raid (A sailing and rowing race from Gabriola Island, British Columbia to Desolation Sound, July 11-18/19, 2009)
The Shipmate Classic Yacht Regatta (SCYR, Hellevoetsluis, the Netherlands, July 22-26, 2009)
The SNAME Maritime Technology Conference & Expo (SMTC&E, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, November 15-16, 2007)
Some Snapshots Taken at the 2000 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival
Some Snapshots Taken at the 2001 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival
Some Snapshots Taken at the 2003 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival
Some Snapshots Taken at the 2004 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival
The Small Boat Forum Events Calendar
The South Australian Wooden Boat Festival (Goolwa, March 7-9, 2009)
The Stan Rogers Folk Festival (Every July, Canso, Nova Scotia)
The Sucia Island Small Boat Rendezvous (July 10-13, 2009, in the San Juan Islands)
Summer Sailstice (An annual global celebration of sailing on the solstice)
The Tall Stacks Paddlewheeler Festival (Cincinnati, Ohio)
The Texas 200 (Adventure/raid/expedition along the Texas coast, June 8-12, 2009)
The Thames Traditional Boat Rally (Every July, Fawley Meadows, Henley-on-Thames, England)
TradBoat's Directory of Traditonal Boat and Classic yacht Events
The UK Messabout Mailing List (News of messabouts for home boatbuilders in the UK)
The US Maritime Security Expo & Conference
The Vancouver Wooden Boat Festival (August 26-29, 2009, Granville Island, British Columbia)
The Victoria Classic Boat Festival (Labour Day weekend, British Columbia)
The Waterford Tugboat Roundup (The weekend after Labor Day, Waterford, New York)
The Western Oregon Messabout Mailing List (Plotting small boat gatherings in western Oregon)
Willamette Falls Lock Fest (September 19, 2009, West Linn, Oregon)
The Wooden Canoe Spring Rendezvous (The first weekend in May, Lake Samamish, Bellingham, Washington)

The Working Waterfront Festival (Celebrating commercial fishing, September, New Bedford, Massachusetts)
The Wye Island Electric Boat Marathon (October 5-6, 2007, St. Michaels, Maryland)
Afai Ships Ltd. (Builder of aluminum fast catamaran ferries, Hong Kong)
Alaska Marine Highway Ferry System
Alaska's Inter-Island Ferry Authority
Austal Group (Builder of aluminium fast ferries, Henderson, Western Australia)
Caledonian MacBrayne (Hebridean & Clyde ferries)
The Cape May-Lewes Ferry (Delaware Bay)
The Carferries of Ludington (Lake Michigan)
Casco Bay Lines (Maine island ferries)
The Coho Ferry (Port Angeles, Washington - Victoria, BC)
Color Line (Ferries between Norwegian, German, Danish and Swedish ports)
Competitive Concepts (Europe) Ltd. (Designers of high-speed ferries)
Dan Youra's Ferry Travel Guide (Washington and worldwide)
Dart Line Freight Services (Freight ferries, England-Europe)
DFDS Seaways (Ferry service between Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Holland, and Great Britain)
Downeast Windjammer Cruises (Maine day cruises aboard the 1923 ferry Chippewa)
El Salam Maritime Transport (Egyptian ferry company)
EvergreenFleet.com (Washington State Ferries history and fleet list)
Fast Ferry International Magazine Online ("Complete information service for those working within the commercial high speed marine craft sector")
The Ferries2 Mailing List (Pictures and news about ferries anywhere in the world)
The Ferries of British Columbia Discussion Board
The Ferries of Canada Mailing List
The Ferries of Northern Europe Mailing List (News and views on the ferries and ferries and ferry services of Northern Europe)
The Ferries of Southern Europe Mailing List (News and views on the ferries and ferries and ferry services of Southern Europe)
The Ferries Outside Europe Mailing List (News and views on the ferries and ferry services based outside Europe)
FerryCam.net (Live pictures of the Anacortes, Washington ferry dock)
Ferryguide (Information, facts, news about the ferries in northern Europe)
The Ferry Terminal (Ferries of British Columbia)
The Ferry Traveler (Schedules and detailed info on all ferries operating in British Columbia, Alaska & Washington)
The Former San Francisco Bay Ferry San Mateo (Picture only)
Frank Schoenstedt's Cruise Ship and Ferry Pages
Gold Coast Ferries (Fast catamaran ferry operator on Queensland's Gold Coast)
Hoverspeed (Hovercraft and catamaran fast ferries, UK-Europe)
Incat Australia (Builder of wave piercing and conventional catamaran ferries)
International Broking Services (Marine brokers & consultants specialising in the sale and charter of high speed passenger ferries as well as passenger/vehicle ferries)
Irish Ferries (Operating ferries between Ireland and Britain and Ireland and France)
The Kalakala Foundation (Rescuing the 1935 art-deco streamlined Washington ferry, Seattle)
Kanangra (1912 Sydney inner harbour ferry, Sydney, Australia)
The King Harry Ferry (Chain ferry across the River Fal between Feock and Philleigh, Cornwall)
Lake Express (High speed ferry service between Muskegon, Michigan and Milwaukee)
Loggen Magazine (A magazine about shipping in general but mostly about passenger ferries, Sweden)
The Madeline Island Ferry Line (Operates between Madeline Island and mainland Bayfield, Wisconsin)
Markus Rücker's Baltic Ferries Page (Photos and ship information)
The Monhegan-Thomaston Boat Line (Maine)
North Carolina Department of Transportation Ferries
Northumberland Ferries Ltd. & Bay Ferries Ltd. (Maine-Nova Scotia, New Brunswick-Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia-Prince Edward Island)
Philip Baxter's Ships Photo Archive (Images of Great Lakes and English Channel ferries drawn from family archives)
The Pierce County Ferry System (Washington)
The Plimmerton Classic & Wooden Boat Festival (February 17-19, 2006, New Zealand)
The Plover Ferry (Connecting Blaine, Washington to Semiahmoo Spit)
Puget Sound Express (Passenger ferry service to the San Juan Islands from Port Townsend, Washington)
The Rail-Marine Information Group (Railroad car ferries, carfloats, tugs, railroad marine terminals, etc.)
Red Funnel (Isle of Wight ferries)
Rjukanbanen (A partly private foundation preserving the two remaining rail ferrries on lake Tinnsjøen in Norway, the 1929 steam ferry Ammonia & the 1956 motor ferry Storegut)
The Sailing Ferry Replica Weatherwax (19th century Lake Champlain ferry)
Seatruck Ferries (Freight only Irish ferry operator sailing between Heysham and Warrenpoint)
SeaView (Reference guide to ferries and cruise lines)
The Seawind Line (Turku-Stockholm ferry line)
ShipPax Information (Ferry and cruise ship information, Sweden)
Shipspotters.com (Ferry photos)
Smaller Ferries in Europe (Norwegian and Danish domestic ferries, German and western-European riverferries)
SS Badger (Carferry running across Lake Michigan, Manitowoc, Wisconsin - Ludington, Michigan)
The SS Catalina Preservation Association (Los Angeles-Santa Catalina Island steam ferry)
The Three Forts Ferry Service (Fort Mott, New Jersey - Fort Delaware State Park on Pea Patch Island - Delaware City, Delaware)
The Washington Island Ferry (Door County, Wisconsin)
The Web Site of Ships (Information on all Japanese ferries and cruise ships)
Wightlink Isle of Wight Ferries
The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket Steamship Authority (Year-round ferry service to the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket)
Black Cats (US Navy PBY Catalinas fighting in the Pacific during WW II)
The Catalina Group of New Zealand (The only air worthy PBY-5A in Australasia)
Flying Boats of the World (A photographic reference)
Flying Tankers, Inc. (Forest fire fighting Martin Mars flying boats)
PBY.com (For PBY enthusiasts and researchers)
The Seaplane Pilots' Association
The WIG Page (Wing In Ground effect vehicles, not quite seaplanes)
The 1901 Census for England & Wales Online
The American Family Immigration History Center (Ellis Island records)
Ancestors on Board (Passenger lists for voyages leaving the British Isles from 1890-1960)
The British Public Record Office (PRO)
The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)
Channel Islands Maritime Miscellany (Crew and ship lists, letters of Marque)
Cimorelli Immigration Manifests Online (CIMO)
Convicts to Australia ... Convict Ships
The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Online (By ship name)
The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Online (Partial, sorted by ship type)
Great Lakes Maritime Personnel Online Database
Lou Alfano's Immigrant Ship Information (Ship Descriptions from various Internet mailing lists list and from direct submissions)
Magellan - The Ships Encyclopedia (Ship histories, pictures, manifests, recorded voyages)
The Mariners-L Mailing list (Dedicated to research into the mariners of the merchant marine and the world's navies)
The National Maritime Museum Passenger Research Guide
PearlsPad of New Zealand Genealogy
Ships of our Ancestors (A list of ships for which a photograph is available in the book Ships of our Ancestors)
TheShipsList-L (Discussing the ships our ancestors migrated on)
(See also History)
Alan Hartley's Maritime Language Page
Berg Business Research's Maritime Glossary
Definitions and Mnemonics for Sailors and Powerboaters
A Glossary of Nautical Terms (Circa 1814)
A Guide for the Perplexed (Translations of all "non-English" phrases in Patrick O'Brian's sea-tales)
Igor Votava's Shipmodeling Vocabulary
An Illustrated Glossary of Square Rigger Terminology
A Jerriais-English Maritime Vocabulary
A Jerriais-French-English Fishermen's Vocabulary
Jim Stein's Nautical Dictionary
Julian Dixon's Polylingual Translating Dictionary and Glossary for Viking Ships and Other Ancient Sailing Craft (To and from English and various languages, dead and living)
Ken Turner's English-French Dictionary of Sailing Terms
Links to Online Nautical Dictionaries (Compiled by the International Conference on Maritime Terminology)
Maritime Etymology (Online Dutch, German, French, Swedish and English glossaries and dictionaries)
The Modern Mariner Glossary (Also the Classic Sea Terms and Shipping Terms glossaries)
Nautical Phrases and the Origins of Some Present Day Expressions
A New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (The 1815 edition of Falconer's marine Dictionary, scanned images online)
Parliamo Scots? Ships and the Sea (Colloquial Scots terms)
Peter D. Green's Nautical Words and Terminology Page
A Portuguese-Spanish-English-French Nautical Dictionary
Schooner Man's Schooner Vocabulary
SeaTalk ("The dictionary of the English nautical language")
Ship-Masonry from Betina: Etymological Vocabulary of Traditional Terminology (A Croatian shipbuilding vocabulary)
TerraX.org's Glossary of Boating Terms
A United States Merchant Marine Glossary of Maritime Terms and Definitions (Circa 1944)
William Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine (1780 edition)
Wisconsin Sea Grant's Glossary of Nautical Terms
A Yachting Dictionary of General Information (From the 1913 edition of Dixon Kemp's Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing and Architecture)