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Houseboats:
Amsterdam Houseboat Rentals (Weekly and monthly accommodations in the center of the city)
Dream Building (Ebook about one family's adventures building and cruising their own houseboat)
Excursions Northwest (Houseboat rentals & sales, Priest Lake, Idaho)
The Hancock's Boat Restoration (Restorating a 1962 Terra Marina Amphibious Cruiser)
The Houseboat Building Mailing List
Houseboating Links
Houseboating World
Houseboat Magazine
Houseboats and Liveaboard Cruising UK (Forum for those living on houseboats or cruising boats in the UK)
The Houseboat Tsunami on Waiheke Island (For rent, New Zealand)
Joe McWilliams' Shantyboat Page
Merrell Watercraft (Houseboat designs for amateur builders)
Okanagan Houseboat Vacations (Penticton, British Columbia)
Palmland Tours (Kerala, India Houseboat tours)
River Rat Boatworks (Custom trailerable houseboats and shanty boats built on production aluminum jon boat and pontoon boat hulls, Irvine, Kentucky)
The Shanty Boat Mailing List

Hovercraft & Related Machines:
4wings' Hovercraft Linkpage
Aeromobile Inc. (Pioneer maker of amphibious and automated gimbal fan hovercraft)
Aks-Invest (Manufacturer of the Mars 7.5 meter cargo hovercraft, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)
ALMAZ Shipbuilding (Military and civilian hovercraft, Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Amphibious Marine Technology (Custom build hovercraft, Anacortes, Washington)
The Australian Hovercraft Federation
Australian Hovercraft Pty. Ltd. (Design and manufacture of open ocean, high speed hovercraft and surface effect craft for commercial, military, coast guard patrol and personal and corporate luxury transportation, Perth)
Barry Palmer's Sevtec Sev Surface Skimmer Program
The Center of Ekranoplan Technologies ALSIN (Maker of the Aquaglide small dynamic air cushion vehicle, Moscow)
Goldstein Hovercraft (Manufacturer of Model Hovercraft Kits)
The Hover-Cloub-Ro Mailing List (For hovercraft fans)
Hoverclub of America
Hovercraft Concepts, Inc. (Aerocruiser® hovercraft)
The Hovercraft Club of Great Britain
The Hovercraft Homepage
Hovercrafters (Craig Wilkins builds a UH-13P 2 man hovecraft designed by Universal Hovercraft)
The Hovercrafters Resource (Lots of links to other hovercraft sites, more)
Hovercrafting in Chicago
The Hovercraft Museum Trust (Including an online encyclopedia describing the history of hovercraft, Gosport, England)
Hovercraft Scotland (hovercraft rides and hovercrafting experiences, Strathaven Airfield)
The Hovercraft Webring (Hovercraft, air cushion vehicles, SEV's or anything related)
Hoverdril Inc. (Builder of hoverbarges for moving equipment into wetlands and over soft ground)
Hoverhawk Corporation (Kits for wing-in-surface-effect (WIGE or WISE) Aircraft/hovercraft hybrids)
Hoverspeed (Hovercraft and catamaran fast ferries, UK-Europe)
Hoverwork Ltd. (Commercial hovercraft operators, UK)
Neoteric Hovercraft (Manufacturer)
Neoteric Hovercraft, Italy
Ocean Hover Ltd.
P-960 KNM Skjold (High speed Norwegian Navy SES missile torpedo boat)
The Radio Controlled Model Hovercraft Mailing List
Scat® Hovercraft (Recreational, commercial & military hovercraft, Singapore)
The StarCruiser Home Page (Weber Hovercrafts)
The Tesla Hovercraft Series (Proposed construction of hovercraft powered by Tesla turbine engines)
Universal Hovercraft (Plans for all season Hovercrafts and air cushion vehicles)

Icebreakers:
The Glacier Society ("Uniting polar interest around the globe through restoration and operation of the USS/USCGC Glacier")
The Icebreakers Page at the National Ice Center
Murmansk Shipping Company (Year round Arctic shipping using nuclear and diesel icebreakers)
Peter Sobolev's Photos of the 1916 Russian Icebreaker Krassin (Preserved at St. Petersburg)
The Provincial Museum of Kymenlaakso (The 1907 icebreaker Tarmo, Kotka, Finland)
Quark Expeditions (Polar cruises aboard Russian icebreakers)
The Steam Icebreaker Stettin (1933, preserved and operating out of Hamburg)
The Swedish Maritime Administration Icebreaker Oden (First non-nuclear ship to reach the north pole)
The Unofficial Site of the Argentine Icebreaker ARA Almirante Irizar
The USCGC Mackinaw (Great Lakes icebreaker)
The US Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea (The world's most powerful non-nuclear icebreaker)
The US Coast Guard Cutter Westwind Virtual Museum and Reunion Hall

Insurance:
Alan Jervis & Associates (Commercial marine insurance consultant and specialist, Brampton, Ontario)
Global Marine Insurance Agency (Boat, yacht, jetski & commercial marine insurance)
Leisureboat Insurance Services (Scotland)
The Marine Insurance Megasite ("Everything on the Internet for marine insurance professionals")
Markel American Insurance Company
Noble Marine Insurance (Insurance for most types of pleasure craft, UK)
Old United Insurance (Marine insurance)
P & I (Protecting and Indemnity, maritime insurance correspondents and surveyors, South Africa)
Recloans.com (Boat loans and insurance)
R. J. Mellusi & Co. (Marine License Insurance)
Smithwick and Clarke Marine Insurance (Commercial and private marine insurance)
The UK P&I Club (A protection and indemnity mutual insurance club)
United Marine Underwriters (Pleasure boat insurance to boatowners and agents, LaGrange, Kentucky)
Voyager Marine Insurance
W. R. Hodgens Yacht Insurance Company (Yacht insurance specialists)
Yachtmaster Insurance Services (Cherished Yacht Insurance, Woodbridge, UK)

Interesting Vessels:
4WD Amphibious Vehicles (Hobbycar, Dutton Mariner, Amphi-Ranger, miltary vehicles)
Aks-Invest (Manufacturer of cargo hovercraft, waterjet cargo and passenger boats and seagoing hydrofoils, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)
The Albert Strange Association (Tracing and preserving the designs and little ships of Albert Strange and making a permanent record of his life and work)
The Amateur Yacht Research Society (AYRS)
Amphicar.net
The Antarctic Research Vessel Hero (Open for tours in Newport, Oregon)
Aorere (1898 Australian racing sloop)
The Apostle Islands Windsled and Aviation Museum (A hybrid motor boat/sled for use on unstable ice, La Pointe, Wisconsin)
The Arctic Ant Aeroboat (Amphibious tetramaran airboat for Arctic conditions, "Don't let the Arctic conditions stop you from doing what the Titanic couldn't, there are no weather conditions unaccessible for the Arctic Ant")
Autocanoe Company (Plans for a pedal powered amphibious recumbent tricycle and a roadable pedal canoe, Port Townsend, Washington)
Båt, Seil, Rigg (Builders of nordlandseeboots, Norway)
Badtz Maru (Retired Royal Air Force coastal patrol boat)
Building Sewn Boat Replicas (At the Museum of Foteviken, Sweden)
Catboat ("Small boat sailing for fun")
The Catboat Association
Cedric Savineau's Speed Sailing Page
A Celebration of Atkin Schooners
Le Char à Cerf-Volant (French landsailing page)
Chinese Junks & Battened Lugsails (With an extensive bilbliography, at Craig O'Donnell's Cheap Pages)
The Classicboat Mailing List (Classic design, sailplans, construction methods, naval architects, history, etc.)
Classic-Boating.co.uk
Cool Amphibious Manufacturers International (Amphibious and specialty vehicles, Bluffton, South Carolina)
Cosmic Muffin (A Boeing 307 Stratoliner that's now a boat)
CoutaNet ("Everything Couta online")
Cranks with Planks (Sampans & yulohs)
Cutwater Enterprise's Woodies on the Web (Antique & classic speedboats)
Dave Culp Speedsailing (Kite sailing)
Dave Lords Kite, Kite Buggy and Land Yacht Page ("The only buggy pilot on Medicare")
The Duck Hunter's Boat Page (DHBP, dedicated to the boats utilized by waterfowlers)
The Edmund Fitzgerald Bell Restoration Project
Experimental Boating Fun (Small catamaran with a trolling motor, and kites too!)
The Fireboat Duwamish (Seattle fireboat preserved by the Shipping & Railway Heritage Trust)
The Fireboat John J. Harvey (Preserved in New York)
Fireboats of the Los Angeles Fire Department
Freedom - A Community On The Sea (Giant 3000+', tax-free, world-roaming floating condominium)
Gaffrig-Making Maritime History (Specialist video production company that makes and sells videos about New Zealand's classic boats)
Gary Powell's Swampscott Dory Page
The German Association for Classic Yachts (FKY)
Giles Whittaker's Foil Stabilised Sail Craft (FSSC)
Gommoni & Gommonauti (An Italian site for inflatable boats and their lovers)
The Great Cardboard Boat Regatta (GCBR)
Hospital Ship International (HSI)
Howell Upchurch's 25' Replica of an American Civil War Richmond Class Ironclad
The Ice Flyer
The Inflatable Boat Network
The International Amphicar Owners Club
The International DN Ice Yacht Racing Association
The International Hydrofoil Society
The James River Batteau Festival (June 15-16, 2007, Virginia)
Jester (The single-handed trans-Atlantic racer and her modern namesake)
KiteShip Corporation (Wind power for ships and yachts)
The Kiteski pages (Water skiing and kite flying combined in a truly weird way)
Kokusai Cable Ship Co., Ltd. (KCS)
The Light Schooner Home Page (The popular Phil Bolger design)
Mast & Sail in Europe & Asia (By H. Warington Smyth, 1906)
Meitheal Mara (Researchers and builders of the Irish currach)
The Microship Project
The Mini-Tugboat Homepage
Misha Naimark's Sewn Boats (Northwest Russian sewn plank boat reconstructions)
Le Monde des Megayachts
Mr. Smith's Amazing Sailboats (The high-speed hydrofoil and multihull designs of Bernard Smith: Aerohydrofoils, Monomarans, Fliptackers and Sailloons)
The Mullins Boat Club of Salem, Ohio (W. H. Mullins pressed steel boats)
Neal Elosge's Marine & Nuclear Engineering Page (Dedicated to the engineering and design of the Nuclear Ship Savannah)
The New York Fire Department Marine Companies
The North American Land Sailing Association (NALSA)
The Ohope Beach Sand Sailors (New Zealand "dirt boaters")
The Old Gaffers Association (Preserving interest in and encouraging development of the gaff rig)
The Personal Sub Home Page
Phoenix World City ("The American Flagship" proposed mammoth cruise ship, to be largest passenger ship ever built)
Porta-Bote Folding Boats
Pterosail™ Trike Systems (Sail/electric tricycles)
Puntgunner (Punt gunning and hunting punts, UK)
The Queen Elizabeth 2 Home Page
Ramon Jackson's US Navy Survey and Cable Ships Page
The Replica 46' 1810 Danish Gunboat Øster Riisøer III
The Research Vessel Triton (British trimaran demonstrator, the largest powered trimaran in the world)
Sailing Old Colchester Essex Oyster Smacks
The Sailrocket World Record Speed Sailing Attempt (A British hydrofoil proa)
Salamander (An original land/watercraft designed by Richard Trojan)
The Santana (Sailing yacht owned by many stars, most famously Bogart)
The Scavenger 2000 Pollution Control and Water Maintenance Vessel
Sea Breeze (H. W. Tilman's Bristol pilot cutter 1899-1972)
The Seaside Bateau of Sinepuxent Bay (The "Sinepuxent Skiff")
The Six Wheeled Amphibian Page
The Skymaran (A kite-powered triscaph)
Song of the Whale (The International Fund for Animal Welfare's research vessel)
Son of Town Hall (First scrap raft to cross the North Atlantic)
Stormy Weather (History, sailing and restoration of the 1933 S&S ocean racing yawl)
The Story of the Australian Couta Boats
Strange Watercraft (As in rare, unusual, noteworthy and thought provoking)
The Superyacht Mari-Cha III (Big, fast, luxurious, expensive)
Team Hydroski ("Defining, then executing the next transportation paradigm shift")
Thames Barge Links
The Thames Sailing Barge Page
The Thames Sailing Barge Paintings of Michael Land (Plus photos of surviving barges, history of Thames barges)
The Thames Vintage Boat Club
Thomas Lukawski's Crabclaw Tacking Proa (Studying the effectiveness of the crablaw and comparing it to jungada, elliptic, Bermudan, gaff and huari rigs; testing the efficiency and the performance of different floats, foils and ngalawa skis; plus, some other boats in the olden style)
TradBoat - The UK Traditional Boat Site (Something sensible on every topic concerning traditional boats and classic yachts)
TUBS Marine (Steel framed bamboo fishing boats, Angeles City, Philippines)
US Submarines (Submarines, manned submersibles, tourist submarines, underwater habitats)
World Pilot Gig Resources
The World Sailing Speed Record Council
The WW I Floating Crane Langer Heinrich (Now working in Genoa)
The Yacht Research Homepage (Articles, links and projects)

Knots & Marlinespike Seamanship:
The Alaska Museum of Fancy Knots
American Hemp (Hungarian hemp twine, cord, yarn and webbing)
André van der Salm's Knots Page (How to tie them and their purpose, plus pictures)
Animated Knots by Grog
Basic Netmaking
The Blue Ridge Mountain Rescue Group Knot Primer
Books on Knots and Tall Ships and a Few Cords and Thimbles (Martin Combs)
Boy Scout Troop 9's Animated Knots
The Cheap Pages' Animated Knots (Several useful knots)
C. S. Osborne (Marlingspikes)
Dave Does Knot Work! (Turksheads, covered decanters, flat matts, tables and lamps. instructional materials, knot templates, videos and other nautical products)
Get Knotted! (Animated knots for scouts)
Hought Tack's Leather Braiding Instructions
The International Guild of Knot Tyers (IGKT)
The International Guild of Knot Tyers (North American Branch)
The International Guild of Knot Tyers (Pacific Americas Branch)
Klabautermann Seglerseite (Matthias Böving's animated knot page)
The Knot Guy (Lindsey Philpott)
Knots and Fishing Knots (Animated knot tying programs for Windows)
Knots Made Easy (A video decorative knots tutorial)
Knots on the Web
The Knotted Line (Custom traditional marlinspike art)
The Knotting Dictionary of Kännet (Scouting knots illustrated, Sweden)
The Knot Tyers Mailing List
Maristany (Knot boards)
Marlinespike.com (Handmade bellropes, sea chest beckets, marlinespike seamanship, fancy knotwork)
Marlinspike Knots (Customized knot displays)
Marlinespike Seamanship (Animated knots from the Dundalk Power Squadron)
Martin Combs' Knotting Links Page
Memphis Net & Twine (Nylon, cotton, manila, polyester and polypropylene braided and twisted rope and twine)
Myerchin Knives (Rigging knives and marlingspikes)
New England Rope's Online Splicing Guides
The Notable Knot Index
The rec.crafts.knots FAQ
Roper's Knot Links
Roper's Knots Page
Ropeworks (A book of knots, hitches, splicing, lashing and rope making)
Samson Rope's Splicing Instructions
The Scouting Resources Knot Pages (Including the A to Z of Knots)
Shooting Star's Marlinspike Page ("Knowing your knots")
TM Technologies (Marlingspikes, but they use them for pounding tin!)
U-Braid-It Braiding Supply Co. (Materials and tools for making custom tack)
US Army Field Manual FM 5-125 - Rigging Techniques, Procedures, and Applications (PDF)

Law:
The Admiralty and Maritime Law Guide (Annotated links to admiralty law resources, and a database of admiralty case digests and opinions, arbitration award abstracts and international maritime conventions)
Bufete Nassar (International maritime and aeronautical law firm based in Costa Rican and Nicaragua)
Carreira Pitti PC Attorneys (Maritime litigation at the panama canal and related to panamanian registered vessels)
Countryman & McDaniel (Cargo law)
David M. Spotts, Esq. (Proctor of admiralty, attorney-at-law, specializing in USCG license defense, Ashtabula, Ohio)
George d'Angelo, Esq. (US & International Law)
Harris & Moure, Pllc. (International maritime law firm, focusing on international fishing law)
International Maritime Advocates (Admiralty and shipping law, Port-Said, Egypt)
John Gates' Maritime And Business Services (Shipping lawyer and maritime consultant, Australia)
The Jones Act & Maritime Lawyers (A seaman's guide to the Jones Act, maritime injury, and admiralty law from Arnold & Itkin, attorneys at law)
The Jones Act Web (Maritime law information including the complete text of the Jones Act)
Jurist's Admiralty & Maritime Law Page (Links to maritime law information and firms)
Latti & Anderson LLP (A maritime law firm representing injured seamen and fishermen worldwide)
The Maritime Law and Admiralty Law Page (Free, legally substantive information on marine law, admiralty law, insurance, mortgages and priorities, wreck salvage and injury, offshore oil and gas, oil pollution and other topics)
Maritime Legal Resources (Admiralty maritime and transportation lawyers who specialize in representing maritime workers worldwide)
McGill Griffin (Admiralty and aviation injury attorneys)
Miami Maritime Law (A resource website and group of experts containing lawyers, maritime and marine science experts, investigators, consultants, and policy makers)
Nabil Farag Law Firm (All aspects of business, maritime and financial affairs, Port Said, Egypt)
Tort Liability in the USA for Negligent Weather Forecasts (An essay by Dr. Robert B. Standler)

Lighthouses & Lightships:
The Admiralty Marine Model Gallery (Miniature lighthouses)
The Alexander Parris Digital Project (Searchable digital archive of materials concerning this 19th century designer of many New England lighthouses)
Beacon & Eggs (A travel guide to inns and B&Bs in lighthouses, or near them)
Bill's Lighthouse Getaway
Bird Island Lighthouse (Marion, Massachusetts)
Canadian Lighthouses (Information and links)
A Celebration of Lights (The lighthouses of the Chesapeake Bay)
The Commissioners of Irish Lights
The Corporation of Trinity House
The Danish Lighthouse Society
The Door County Maritime Museum & Lighthouse Preservation Society (Cana Island Lighthouse, Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin)
Fairport Harbor Lighthouse (Ohio)
Fotosearch® Stock Photos of Lighthouses
GPM (Paper lighthouse models, Poland)
Grant and Tracey's Lighthouse Page (Australia)
Great Lakes Aerial Photos (Lighthouses photos by Don Coles)
Gulf Coast Lighthouses (Lighthouses of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico)
HarbourLights.com (Information about harbour lights, lighthouses and anchor bay ships, lighthouse collectibles)
Jack's Lighthouse Links
Keepers of the Light (Tales from two West Coast lighthouse lovers)
Keep the Lights Shining (Lighthouse photos, histories and links)
Kenilworth Press (Cardstock lighthouse model kits)
Lighthouse Friends (Photographs, descriptions, travel directions, and GPS coordinates for lighthouses in the United States)
Lighthouse Heritage (Index to National Maritime Initiative lighthouse sites)
Lighthouses (Pharology, pilotage and seamarks)
The Lighthouse Society of Great Britain ("The leading source of information for world Lighthouses")
Lighthouses of Australia
The Lighthouses of British Columbia
Lighthouses of Greece
Lighthouses of Lake Superior
The Lightship Port (Devoted to the history and lore of lightships and lighthouse tenders)
The Lightship Swiftsure ex Relief #83 (Preserved in Seattle)
Linda's Lighthouse Page (With links to many other lighthouse sites)
Lit Lamps of the World (Tales of lighthouses and lightships)
The Long Beach Bar Lighthouse ("The Bug Light," Peconic Bay, Long Island, New York)
Maritime Man (Jerry Radloff's pages dedicated to the saving and restoration of lightships)
Mike's Lighthouse Pages (California and Oregon)
The Montauk Point Lighthouse Museum (Long Island, New York)
Muckle Flugga (Northernmost rocks and lighthouse in the British Isles)
The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses (Fraserburgh)
National Lighthouse Center and Museum (Featuring the lighthouses of New York harbor, Staten Island, New York)
Neist Point Lighthouse (Isle of Skye, cottages for rent)
New England Lighthouses: A Virtual Guide
New Zealand Lighthouse Stamps
Nightbeacon (A picture tour of lighthouses on Great Lakes & in Maine)
The North Light Fund (Trying to save a Block Island, Rhode Island light)
The Norwegian Lighthouse Association
The Nova Scotia Lighthouse Preservation Society
The Official Finnish Lighthouses Page
Old Point Loma Lighthouse (San Diego, California)
The Outer Banks Lighthouse Society (Volunteer group advocating for North Carolina lightouses)
Pab's Miniature Lighthouses Made of Salvaged Wood from Old Boats that Cannot Be Saved
Paradise Cay Publications (Lighthouse prints)
The Pat Hathaway Historical Photo Collection (Views of California lighthouses)
Pete's Lantern Room (About 350 original images of Lighthouses from all over the world)
Philip Plisson's Photographic Inventory of the Lighthouses of the "Atlantic Arc" (Ireland, England, Scotland & Western France, Spain and Portugal)
The Point Amour Lighthouse (Labrador)
The Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse (Florida)
Postcards Ocean Liners (Antique & collectible lighthouse postcards for sale, Zurich)
The Range Light Keepers (Custodians of the Kennebec River range lights and Fiddlers Reach fog bell tower, Maine)
Rod's Lighthouse Photos
The Saint Augustine Lighthouse and Museum (Florida)
The Selkirk Lighthouse (Salmon River at Lake Ontario, New York)
Ships Which Never Arrive (Dutch and European lightships)
Shore Village Museum - Maine's Lighthouse Museum (Rockland)
Sonoma Gifts and Collectibles (Lefton Lighthouse sculptures)
Steve Vanden Bosch's Great Lakes Lighthouse Photos
The Swedish Lighthouse Society
The US Coast Guard Historian's Office Lighthouses, Lightships & Aids to Navigation Page
The US Coast Guard Lightship Sailors' Association (Preserving the traditions and history of an era that spanned 1820 to 1983)
World-Wide Web Virtual Library: The World's Lighthouses, Lightships & Lifesaving Stations



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