The Mother of All Maritime Links: Page 37 of 47

The Mother of All Maritime Links
John's Nautical Links List
Page 37 of 47

Ships in harbor

New or Changed Links Hand pointing right

The $50, 5 Hour Canoe Sail Rig (Book by William C. Mantis, "A complete builder/user/experimenter/historical guide and philosophical treatise")

Adaptive Aerofoils (The Transition Rig, a foldable sail design based on a bird's wing)

AeroRig^® (Performance cruising rigs)

Aleksander Celarek (Traditional sails and rigging, Poland)

The American Group (Manufacturer of Samson ropes)

American Rope & Tar (Authentic Stockholm tar, tarred hemp marline and synthetic Manila rope)

An Antique Soft Wingsail

The Association of British Sailmakers

Atlantic Sail Traders (Used and new sails, sail broker, Sarasota, Florida)

The BadgerOwnerBuilders Mailing List (Fans of Jay Benford's sailing dory Badger who are plotting the conversion of the sailing world to the junk rig)

Bainbridge International (Global supplier of sailcloth and sail hardware)

The Balanced Rig^™ (A self-tacking, free standing, balanced lug rig)

Balogh Sail Designs (BSD Batwing^™ sail rigs, Boss^™ outriggers & other sailing equipment for kayaks and canoes)

Banks Sails (Racing and cruising sails, one design sails)

Banks Sails Tampa (One design and cruising sails, Florida)

Bartlett Sails and Canvas (Austin, Texas)

The Benze Smart Sail ("Like having a sailboat with an automatic transmission...")

Boatek Wingsails (The brainchild of Suffolk, England boat builder and inventor Bob Quinton)

Bosun Supplies (Stainless hardware)

Brion Toss Rigging (Including Spar talk, the Brion Toss Rigging Forum)

BSG Developments (SailPack sail design software)

Building a Canoe Sailing Rig (By Larry Zuk & Bob Halsey)

Building a Mast From Epoxy and Glass-Roving (By Jeroen Hoekstra)

Cable & Ropeworks (A trade wholesale business specialising in the supply of wire & fibre rope, rigging & lifting equipment, Westham, East Sussex)

Carbospars (Carbon masts for racing and cruising, UK)

Cast-Aways Used Sail Loft

CDI Cruising Design, Inc. (Maker of flexible furlers and reefing systems, Homer, New York)

Cheong Lee Sailmakers Ltd. (Lee Sails, custom sails, Hong Kong)

Chinese Junks & Battened Lugsails (With an extensive bilbliography, at Craig O'Donnell's Cheap Pages)

The Chinese Sail (Previously unpublished 1960 article on the junk rig by Brian Platt)

Clamcleats Limited (Clamcleat^® rope cleats for dinghies, sailboats, catamarans and windsurfers)

Collars (Wooden masts and spars, Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire)

Conrad Blocks (Traditional wooden shelled blocks, Woodend, Queensland)

Converting a Rowing Dinghy to Sail (1954 article by Percy W. Blandford)

The Cordage Institute (Develops standards & promotes the safe use of rope)

Cruising Direct (Sailmaker)

Dabbler Sails (Traditional and modern mall craft and custom cruising sails, Wicomico Church, Virgina)

Doyle Bouzaid Sails New Zealand, Ltd.

Doyle Fraser Sailmakers (Sydney, Australia)

Doyle Sailmakers (Marblehead, Massachusetts)

The Dwyer Aluminum Mast Company (Masts and rigging hardware)

Elliott Pattison Sailmakers (Custom racing and cruising sails, offshore cruising sails, multihull sails, online seminars and chat sessions)

The Encyclopedia of Sails

Erik Precourt's Modern Dead Eyes for Synthetic Rigging (Developed for the Farrier/Corsair trimaran rotating rig or other multihulls)

eSails Direct (Elliott Pattison cruising and recreational sails at discount prices)

The European Rally of the Junk Rig Association (Second one, Dieppe, France, photos only)

Ezirig (Winching system for raising and lowering masts)

E-Z-JAX Sail Control Systems (Patent retracting lazy jacks)

FaMet ReeFurl Sail Handling Systems

Fareast Sails (Lam Sails Hong Kong made cruising sails)

Fawcett Boat Supplies (Sailboat hardware and cordage)

Frank Hagan's Bird's Mouth Tapered Mast Proof of Concept Test

Frank Hagan's Gaff Rig Page (A repository of sources of information about gaff rigs)

FX Sails (Custom sails, Charleston, South Carolina)

Gambell and Hunter Sailmakers (Specializes in traditonal sails, Camden, Maine)

Garhauer Marine Hardware (Sailboat hardware)

Goacher Sails (Racing and cruising sails, Windermere, Cumbria)

Goodling Outdoor Products (Pure white DuPont Tyvek)

Green Sails (Denmark)

Gregg Carlson's SailForm (Freeware 3-D sail visualization and design program)

Haarstick Sailmakers, Inc. (Racing & cruising sails, repairs & sailing hardware)

Hall Spars (Carbon fiber spars)

Hanseatic Nets & Ropes (Factory direct online sails of Kremmin nets and ropes, Oldenburg, Germany)

Harken Yacht Equipment

Hathaway, Reiser and Raymond, Inc. (Sailmaker)

Hayn Enterprises (Manufacturer of rigging and lifeline hardware)

Hogin Sails (Cruising, commercial & traditional sails but also familiar with modern types, Alameda, California)

Holt (Small boat and yacht hardware)

Hood Annapolis (Sails, canvas, and rigging supplies)

Horizontal Sail Systems (Manufacturer of custom crab claw sails)

Hyde Sails (Southampton, Hampshire)

Intensity Sails (Racing dinghy sails, Warwick, Rhode island)

Into the Wind Kites (Tyvek for sailmaking)

Island Planet Sails (Rolly Tasker Sails dealer, Portland, Oregon)

Jacques Mertens on the Sprit Rig

Jama Sails (Racing sails, Holland)

Jeckells Quality Sailmakers (UK)

J. M. Reineck & Son (Manufacturers of classic bronze yacht blocks with modern ball bearings)

The Junkrig Mailing List (To discuss the design building and sailing of the Chinese junk rig)

The Junks Sampans and Lorchas Mailing List (Discussing traditional and modern designs)

The Kamm Rig High Speed Sail (High efficiency sail design for racing)

Kappa Sails (Racing, cruising sailmakers, sail repairs, Westbook, Connecticut)

Karlyn Cleat (Snag proof combination chock/cleats)

Kayospruce Ltd. (Sailcloth, sailmaking and canvas supplies, UK)

Kemp Sails (Custom made sails for yachts of all sizes, UK)

Layline Sailboat Racing Equipment

Leech & Rudiger (New and used sails)

Lidgard Sails Ltd. (Designs and manufactures sails for racers, cruisers and multihulls, Auckland, New Zealand)

The Lug Sail Association (Venice, Italy)

Making Plywood Blocks (Article by David N. Goodchild)

Making the Tyvek Sail (By Bill Wallace)

Manila Cordage Company (Philippine manufacturer and exporter of Manila and synthetic ropes)

Mariners Sails (Cruising, racing and traditional sails, repairs and alterations, Ketchikan, Alaska)

Marlow Ropes

Mast Building for Beginners (Building carbon masts. from the Cherub class page)

Mast & Sail in Europe & Asia (By H. Warington Smyth, 1906)

Material Concepts (National Tyvek distributor, Philadelphia)

Metalmast Marine (Spars and fittings)

Minney's Surplus Sails (Used sails)

MMS & Accessories (Stainless steel wire rope, shackles, turnbuckles, etc.)

Neil Pryde Sails (New and used sails)

New England Ropes

New England Traditional Boat (Traditional lignum-vitae and bronze boat blocks, Southwest Harbor, Maine)

Nieuwe Zeilen (A directoy of sailmakers in Holland)

Norseman Marine USA (Mast Builders, fittings and hardware, specialists in aluminum, stainless steel and wire rigging)

North Sails New Jersey (Racing and cruising sails, repairs)

North Sails USA

The Nova Scotia Junk Rig Association

Nukin-O Sails (San Antonio, Texas)

Odd Sails From Polytarp (At Craig O'Donnell's Cheap Pages)

Offshore Spars (Carbon fiber and aluminum mast systems)

The Omer Wing-Sail (A soft, variable geometry wing-sail, Israel)

Optimum Rigging (Mail order rigging services and hardware)

Optiparts Marine Equipment (Manufacturer of spars and accessories for the Optimist dinghy)

Our Catamaran (Building a 60' catamaran powered by a Flettner-Rotor)

Pacific Offshore Rigging (Sailboat rigging and repair, San Diego, California)

Performance Yacht Systems (Internet catalog of high-performance sailing gear)

Pert Lowell Co., Inc. (Bronze hardware, wooden mast hoops and wooden hardware, Newbury, Massachusetts)

Pfeiffer Marine (Winch manufacturer, Germany)

Phoenix Rope & Cordage Company

Pineapple Sails' Educational and Enlightening Articles

Pineapple Sails Sailmaker

PolySail (White polytarp sail kits)

The PolySail Library (High performance/low cost sails for small sailboats)

PolySail's How to Make Polytarp Sails Article

Porpoise Sailing Services (New, used and custom sails, Sarasota, Florida)

Port Townsend Sails (Carol Hasse & Co., sails for traditional and modern rigs, Port Townsend, Washington)

Proctor Masts and Rigging (Complete rigging services, one design and big boat spars and services, Newport Beach, California)

Quantum Sail Design Group

Quay Sails (Poole, Dorset)

Randers Reb International (Manufacturer of rope and wire rope, Randers, Denmark)

Ratsey & Lapthorn Sailmakers (Cowes, Isle of Wight)

Reefing Gear (How to rig reefing gear for batwing sails and other battened canoe sail rigs, from Canoe Handling by C. B. Vaux, 1885)

Rigging Only (Sailboat hardware and rigging)

Rigging Your Canoe for Sail (How-to from the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association)

Rig-Rite Inc. (Spars, rigging & hardware for sailboats)

Robert Lainé's Sailcut Sail Design Software

Rolly Tasker Sails (Export sailloft, Phuket Island, Thailand)

Ronstan Sailing Systems (Rigging hardware)

Ropetec (Industrial rope, rigging, South Africa)

Rushton Canoe Sails (Rushton Improved Bailey batwing canoe sails)

Sail Center of Sweden (Manufacturer of carbon fiber spars and dinghy parts)

The Sail Design Mailing List (Discussing sail plan design and construction)

The Sail Exchange (New and used sails)

The Sailing Canoes Mailing List (For people interested in rigging and sailing open and decked Englsh and American style canoes)

Sailing Smacks' Tackles (Article first published in the Colne Smack Preservation Society's Journal Smack Dock Soundings)

Sailmaker's Supply (Sailmaking supplies, canvas, hardware and supplies)

Sailrite (sail kits)

The Sail Store (Stock sails for production boats, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina)

The SailTech SoloRig^™ Cruising Rig

Sail Trim & Rig Tuning (An illustrated sailing manual by Ivar Dedekam, available in English, German, Swedish, Danish & Norwegian)

The Sail Warehouse (New & used sails, Monterey, California)

Sam Manning's Sticks & String Canoe Rig

Samson Rope Technologies (Rope manufacturer, Ferndale, Washington)

Scully Fin (Universal sprit rig and sculling rudder for inflatable boats, Corvallis, Oregon)

Servicios Nauticos SRL (Lewmar winches, Marlow ropes, Colonia, Uruguay)

ShackleDog (Small, cheap, dedicated tool for undoing shackles)

Shop and Building Tips (Cold-molded PVC-core spar building, homemade blocks, more)

Shore Sails International (One-design, racing and cruising sails)

SilverWing (An economical soft wingsail for the amateur dinghy builder)

Skycraft Sail and Canvas Repair (Repairs of sails, canvas and tents, new sails for boats under 20', online information on how to do professional repairs to your own sails, Waubaushene, Ontario)

SkySails (Developer of kite sails for merchant ships, Hamburg)

Sobstad Sailmakers (Racing and cruising sails, Greensboro, Georgia)

Solway Dory (Open canoe sailing rigs, UK)

Spar Talk (The Brion Toss rigging forum)

Spinlock (Sailboat deck hardware)

Squeteague Sailmakers (Cataumet, Massachusetts)

Stateline Braiding (Ropes for yachting, South Africa)

Stephen Ratsey Sailmakers (Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire)

Suncor Stainless, Inc.

Superior Marine Canvas (Sails)

Super Sailmakers (Specializes in building and repairing small-boat production sails and custom cruising sails, Fort Lauderdale, Florida)

Superspars (Manufacturer of alloy and carbon performance masts and spars, Fareham, Hampshire)

Tarps Direct (White plastic tarps for sailmaking)

The Thread Exchange (Bonded nylon, bonded polyester, and specialty sewing thread, North and South Carolina)

Tides Marine Inc. (Maker of the Strong^® sail track and slide system)

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)

Tom's SpeedSail (the Aeroskimmer wing sail)

Toplicht (Hardware, blocks & rigging supplies, cordage, lamps, tools, Hamburg)

UK-Halsey Sailmakers (Lofts worldwide)

Ullman Sails International (Cruising and racing sails)

Ullman Sails San Diego (New sails and repairs)

Ulta Sail (Cross laminated polyethylene film sail kits for small boats)

US Army Field Manual FM 5-125 - Rigging Techniques, Procedures, and Applications (PDF)

US Spars Inc. (American distributor of Z Spar masts, booms, vangs & spinnaker poles; blocks and related products)

VER Sales Cable Rigging & Supply

Voilerie Delta Voiles (French sailmaker)

Waagmeester Canvas Products, Inc. (West Coast representative for Banks Sails, Portland, Oregon)

WB-Sails Ltd. Oy (High-tech sailmakers, Finland)

WB-Sails News (Articles about sail aerodynamics, etc.)

Weekend'R Products (Sail ties, spinnaker guys)

Wellington Cordage

Wooden Boat Fittings (Wooden cleats & belaying pins, saddles & fairleads, pennant staffs, jackstaffs & beeblocks, blocks & boathooks, masthoops, deadeyes, bullseyes, thimbles, toggles & other traditional fittings, Cannons Creek, Victoria)

The Wooden Boatshop (Wooden spars, blocks)

Wood & Water of Wickford, Rhode Island (Custom wooden boat fittings, black locust Merriman style yacht blocks, belaying pins, cleats, parrel beads, deadeyes, fiddle blocks and any other hard to find rigging items)

Yachting Essentials (Sailboat racing hardware)

Yager Sails (Custom sailmaker, Spokane, Washington)

Yale Cordage (Ropes for industrial and pleasure marine applications)

Zephyrwerks (Maker of block sheaves and sheet and anchor rollers, Port Townsend, Washington)

Z Sails (Racing and cruising sails, repairs and service, Stamford, Connecticut)

Z Spars UK (Manufactures alloy masts, booms, spars, rigging and fittings for boats from dinghies to 60 footers)

(See also Hardware & Equipment for chandleries, winches, etc.)

Rowing & Human-Powered Boating:

The 1,000 Islands Fun Rowing Club

The Aberdeen Boat Club (ABC, Scottish rowing club))

Adirondack Guide Boat (Wood or Kevlar Adirondack guideboats and kits, Charlotte, Vermont)

Adirondack Rowing (New and used guideboats, shells and sculls, Latanzo rowing shell parts)

Adventureglass (Maker of paddleboats)

The Amateur Rowing Association (Governing body for the sport of rowing in Great Britain)

American Seacycles and Waterbikes (Pedal powered boats)

Aquabike (A kit which transforms a standard mountain bike into a pedal-powered catamaran)

Aquamotion Systems (The FrontRower^® front-facing rowing system)

Atlantic Challenge (International rowing/sailing/seamanship contest using replicas of the French "Bantry Bay" gig)

The Atlantic Rowing Race

Autocanoe Company (Plans for a pedal powered amphibious recumbent tricycle and a roadable pedal canoe, Port Townsend, Washington)

The Bainbridge Island Rowing Club (Washington)

Barkley Sound Oar and Paddle Ltd. (Spruce oars and paddles, rowlocks. British Columbia)

Birding by Boat - the Migrations of le Bateau du Audubon (Oar-driven floating classroom, Tomales Bay, Elkhorn Slough, Moro Bay, Upper Newport Bay or South San Diego Bay, California)

The Burnaby Lake Rowing Club (BLRC, Burnaby, British Columbia)

Canect Outdoors (Makes a portable, collapsible foot operated paddlewheels)

Carl Douglas Racing Shells (Staines, Middlesex)

Caviness Woodworking (Wooden and synthetic oars, paddles and accessories, Calhoun City, Mississippi)

Chesapeake Rowing (Alden rowing shells, shell kits and rowing accessories)

Club de l'Aviron Toulonnais (Competition rowing club, Toulon)

Collars (Wooden oars, Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire)

The Corvallis Rowing Club (Oregon)

Cranks with Planks (Sampans & yulohs)

David Cartwright - Boat Builder (Wooden rowing boats and shells, Halesworth, Suffolk)

Decavitator (Record-breaking 18.5 knot human-powered hydrofoil)

The Dinghy Rowing Mailing List (For those interested in dinghy cruising by oar)

The Don Rowing Club (Mississauga, Ontario)

Durham Boat Company, Inc. (High performance rowing and sculling equipment and instruction)

The Embarcadero Rowing Club (Whaleboat racing, San Francisco)

Empacher Rowing Shells

Forcole and the Boats of Venice

The Forward Facing Rowing System By Gig Harbor Boat Works (Developed from a late 19th century design from the southern US)

The Friends of Rowing History (An informal group interested in the history of rowing, with emphasis on North America)

Gaco (Maker of oarlocks and the Swift Dory recreational rowing craft)

The Handliner (Fiberglass light rowboats, Courtenay, British Columbia)

The Henley-on-Thames Home Page

The Houston Rowing Club

Human Powered Boats (Events, photos, links)

Hydro Bikes (Pedal powered catamarans)

Hydrobikes Ontario (Hydro Bikes dealer, Stoney Creek)

Indian Head Oars and Paddles (Ripley, Mississippi)

The International Human Powered Vehicle Association (IHPVA)

Island Oars (Hand crafted spruce and fir oars, Nanaimo, British Columbia)

John R. Rabeneck Co. (Fiberglass blades for oars and paddles)

Johnson Outdoors Watercraft (Manufacturer of Escape pedal boats)

The Juneau Rowing Club (Alaska)

The Key West Rowing Club

The Kingston Rowing Club (Kingston, Ontario)

The Kingston Rowing Club (Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey)

The Lakes Marina Co. (Pedal and electric assisted pedal boat dealer, Las Vegas, Nevada)

The Lake Stevens Rowing Club (Lake Stevens, Washington)

Lake Union Crew (Seattle)

The Lake Washington Rowing Club (LWRC, Seattle)

Little River Marine (Manufacturer of fiberglass recreational rowing shells and dories, Gainesville, Florida)

Monomoy's Rowing Club (Whaleboat racing, Oakland, California)

The National Rowing Foundation (US)

New Wave Boat Company, Inc. (Maker of the Hydro Bike Explorer pedal catamaran)

New Whatcom Rowing (Open-water rowing club, Bellingham, Washington)

The Ocean Rowing Society

Open Water Cycling (Maker of the Cadence pedal boat)

Open Water Rowing ("The publication for rowers who are really going somewhere")

The Oregon Association of Rowers (OAR, organization promoting the sport of competitive rowing in the upper Willamette Valley)

The Original Wanamaker Pontoon & Paddle Co. (One & two person pontoon boats)

Pacific Tailboats (Maker of a pedal-powered fin propulsion system)

Pedalcraft (Dealer/distributor of pedal boats on the US West Coast)

Pedal-Power Afloat (Designs by Philip Thiel, NA, Seattle)

The Portland Boat Club (Scullers mostly, Oregon)

ProPhish (Manufacturers of the WaterSkipper inflatable catamaran pedal boat)

Rachel Quarrell's Rowing Service (Rowing information and links)

The Rat Island Rowing Club (Rowing sliding seat and fixed seat racing and recreational rowing craft, Port Townsend, Washington)

The River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames (UK)

Robert Hodgen's Trampofoil Page

Rossiter Boats (Fiberglass classic rowboats and sliding seat shells)

Rowable Classics (A "not-for-profit collaboration among people committed to preserving, restoring, building, owning, rowing or displaying wooden, sliding-seat rowing boats")

Rowing Boats For Sale .com (Free online ads for used rowing boats and equipment)

RowingLinks.com

Roz Savage (Ocean crossing oarswoman)

Sage Wooden Boats (Plans for a glued plywood lapstrake adaptation of L. Francis Herreshoff's 17' rowing boat, Prineville, Oregon)

The Schuylkill Navy of Philadelphia (Organization governing racing among the ten rowing clubs of Philadelphia's Boathouse Row)

Scully Fin (Sculling rudder and universal sprit rig for inflatable boats, Corvallis, Oregon)

SeaCycles (Pedal powered catamarans)

The Sea Republics Regatta (Italian rowing competition between Amalfi, Genoa, Pisa and Venice)

Shaw & Tenney Inc. (Oars and Paddles)

Sound Rowers Open Water Rowing and Paddling Club (Sponsors races for kayaks, surf skis, rowing shells, rowboats and canoes throughout Puget Sound)

TenderCraft Boat Shop, Inc. (Oars, paddles and rowing accessories, Toronto)

The Torquay Rowing Club

Trampbåtsföreningen af Chapman (The Swedish waterbike association)

Trampofoil.info

The Trireme Trust (Builders of the Athenian trireme reconstruction Olympias)

Vancouver Lake Crew (Vancouver, Washington)

The Venetian Rowing Technique

Virus Boats (Lightwieght rowing boats, Chester, UK)

The WaveBike (A long, thin pedal powered monohull with an active stabilization system)

WaveWalk, Inc. (Maker of a paddled catamaran)

Wayland Marine - For Those Moved By Oars (Alden Shells, boat kits, Bellingham, Washington)

World Pilot Gig Resources

(See also Canoes & Kayaks)

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