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Seamanship & Safety:

The Agate Pass Power Squadron (North Kitsap and East Jefferson counties, Washington)

The Akron Power Squadron (APS, USPS, Ohio)

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

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority

Boat Docking (Book about close quarters maneuvering for small craft)

Boating and Sailing Videos (Safety instructional videos)

Boating Safety Information (Seamanship, weather & tides data, the latest local notices to mariners)

Boat Safe (Boating safety information and online boating courses)

Boy's Manual of Seamanship and Gunnery (Electronic book "For the use of Boys under training for Her Majesty's Navy", 1871)

The Cal Sailing Club Reference Library

The Canadian Power & Sail Squadrons (CPS)

The Clark County Sheriff's Office Marine Patrol ("A place for everyone to learn more about boating & water safety")

Commander Bob's Boating Safety Notebook ("The Boating Safety Page on the WWW")

Crew-Safe (Dealer for Crewsaver and Baltic lifejackets and buoyancy aids, UK)

Definitions and Mnemonics for Sailors and Powerboaters

Down The Shore (Boating safety information and products, including immersion suits and GPS info)

The Dundalk Power Squadron (Maryland)

The Foundation for Safe Boating and Marine Information

Fremont Maritime Services (A Seattle-based company providing fire fighting, sea survival, and STCW basic safety training)

The Fremont Technical Library (Articles and technical papers relating to maritime safety and training)

Halkey-Roberts Inflation Systems (Parts for inflatable life vests)

Hayn Enterprises (Manufacturer of lifeline hardware)

IMP Group Marine Division (Canadian manufacturer and supplier of marine safety products and services)

The International Maritime Organization (IMO, the UN agency responsible for improving maritime safety)

International Marine Signal Flag Images

The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea 1972 (Complete COLREGS, in hypertext, as amended, and applying on the Rivers Wye and Lugg)

Jeppesen Marine (RVO seamanship training software)

Landfall Navigation (Offshore safety equipment)

The Land of Lincoln Power Squadron (Central Illinois)

Landsort Maritime Training AB (Crew basic training courses & rescue boat crew training, Landsort Island, Sweden)

LiferaftRental.com LLC (Liferafts for cruising and racing, serving all of North America)

Liferaft Systems Australia (Liferafts and evacuation systems)

The Marine Warehouse (UK online lifejacket store)

Mustang Survival (Manufacturer of flotation devices and clothing, survival suits)

The National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) Maritime Safety Information Division

The National Marine Safety Committee (NMSC, an intergovernmental committee drafting and implementing safety standards and legislation for recreational and commercial vessels in Australia)

The Newfoundland and Labrador Branch of the Lifesaving Society

NOAA SARSAT (Satellites in low-earth and geostationary orbits to detect and locate aviators, mariners, and land-based users in distress)

The North Pacific Fishing Vessel Owners' Association Vessel Safety Program (NPFVOA)

The Official NavRules for Windows Home Page (Training program for learning the "rules of the road")

Off-Season Boating, Cold Shock and Hypothermia (Safety advice from the American Canoe Association)

The Oregon State Marine Board Boater Education Info Center

The Oregon State Marine Board Publication Library (Many free and online)

Orion Signals (Safety and distress signaling devices, free online signaling guide)

Ovatek (Rigid self-righting liferafts)

The Prince George's Power Squadron (Maryland)

Questions for Young Officers

RBBI's Open Water Rescue Procedures & Equipment

The Royal New Zealand Coast Guard's Safety Page

RulesMaster (CD-ROM based training products that teach the rules of the road)

The Saginaw Bay Power Squadron (Michigan)

Salt Water Tapes & Books (Safety training videotapes for the ocean going, fishing and workboat industries)

Sartech Engineering Ltd (EPIRB servicing and test equipment)

Sea Cow Games (Offshore Sailing sail training game)

Seamanship International (Macneil's Seamanship Examiner & other training materials)

Seapro Marine Products (Inflatable life belt/vests)

The Seattle Sail and Power Squadron

Seaworthy (A publication that uses insurance claim files to analyze why boating accidents occur and tell how they could be prevented)

Sentinel Press (Publishes a line of weatherproof boating safety and education books and placards)

The Shooting Star Boating Safety Page

SmartCaptain.com (Information about safety gear and boat and crew preparation for the ocean)

Sospenders (Inflatable PFDs)

Stentec Software (Sail Simulator sailing simulator)

The Tokyo Sail and Power Squadron (Japanese affiliate of the USPS)

The Transport Canada Office of Boating Safety

United States Inland Navigation Regulations

The United States Power Squadron (USPS)

United States Power Squadrons Webring

United States Power Squadrons^® District 27 (USPS, "The Mother of All Boating Safety Pages")

US Army Field Manual FM 55-501 - Marine Crewman's Handbook (PDF)

US Army Field Manual FM 55-502 - Army Watercraft Safety (PDF)

The US Coast Guard Boatbuilder's Handbook (For manufacturers of recreational boats)

US Coast Guard Maritime Telecommunications Information

The US Coast Guard Office of Boating Safety

US Coast Guard Safety Standards for Backyard Boatbuilders (A .PDF file)

The US Sailing Safety-At-Sea Committee (Conducts research and publishes reports in areas relevant to safety in offshore sailing, and keeps records of accidents in offshore races)

The Vancouver Power and Sail Squadron (British Columbia)

Virtual Passages (Cruising sailing simulator combined with actual historical weather data for the globe, route planner and weather router)

Water Safety New Zealand

Water Wise: Safety for the Recreational Boater (Book from Alaska Sea Grant)

Westpac Marine Services, Inc. (Sales, service and rental of inflatable life rafts, EPIRBS & SARTS and safety signage, Tacoma, Washington)

The Wheelhouse Companion on CD-ROM (From Gateway Media)

The Willamette River Sail & Power Squadron (Oregon)

The Winnipeg Power & Sail Squadron (CPS)

The Winston-Salem Sail & Power Squadron (WSPS, North Carolina)

Wooden Boat Foundation Educational Programs

Sea Scouts & Sea Cadets:

1st Balmoral Sea Scout Group (Sydney, Australia. With links to other Australian Sea Scout pages)

1st Pelican Point Sea Scout Group (Perth, Western Australia)

3rd Athens Sea Scout Group of Greece (3 OAN)

10th Richmond Sea Scout Group (Richmond, British Columbia)

The 58th Sea Scout System of Volos (Greece)

The Boy Scouts of America Sea Explorer Home Page

The Canadian Sea Scouts

The International Sea Cadet Association

The International Sea Scout Organization

The Netherlands Sea Cadet Corps

Newport Sea Base, Boy Scouts of America (Home of the 1905 Baltic trader tops'l ketch Argus, Newport Beach, California)

The PTF-3 Restoration Project (A US Navy Nasty class patrol boat being restored by Sea Scout ship 5544, Orange City, Florida)

The Royal Canadian Sea Cadets

The Sea Cadet Training Ship Sheffield (Sheffield, England)

Sea Scouts, Haifa (Israel)

Sea Scout Ship 13 Reliance (Operating the former Coast Guard cutters Reliance, Morris & Point Weber, Stockton, California)

Sea Scout Ship 97 Yankee Clipper (Seattle)

Sea Scout Ship 110 Charles N. Curtis (Tacoma, Washington)

Sea Scout Ship 145 Challenger (San Jose, California)

Sea Scout Ship 282 Seawolf (Eugene, Oregon)

Sea Scout Ship 294 Felisi (San Diego)

Sea Scout Ship 601 City of Roses (Portland, Oregon)

Sea Scout Ship 936, Mariner (Dana Point, California)

Sea Scout Ships Corsair (22) and Viking (100) (San Francisco)

Sea Scout Ship Yankee Clipper (Seattle)

The Sea Scout Webring

The Seattle Sea Scout Fleet

The US Naval Sea Cadet Corps

The Vässarö Island Scout Centre (Sweden)

The Web Cadet Corps (WebCadets, a purely independent international internet-based cadet program)

The World Sea Scout Directory (Links to Sea Scout groups around the world)

Shipyards:

The Afterguard (An international forum for discussing worldwide shipbuilding events, policies, and practices)

Aker Finnyards (Shipbuilding and floating production systems for deepwater oil fields, Rauma, Finland)

Afai Ships Ltd. (Builder of aluminum fast catamaran ferries, Hong Kong)

Aker Kvaerner (Builders of cruise ships, LNG carriers and container ships, with two shipyards in Finland and one in the US)

ALMAZ Shipbuilding (Military and civilian shipbuilding, Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Alstom Marine (French builder of commercial and naval ships)

Assens Shipyard Ltd. (Superyacht new builds, ship refits and conversions, Assen, Denmark)

Astillero Blue Water Boats Argentina (Building tugs, supply vessels, barges and pontoons, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Austal Group (Aluminium vessels including fast ferries, patrol boats, cruise and live-aboard vessels and private motor yachts, Henderson, Western Australia)

Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co. (Mobile, Alabama)

Bollinger Shipyards Inc. (Operator of fourteen Louisiana and Texas shipyards)

Brown Marine Service/Bayou Marine and Industrial Services (Tug and barge construction and repair, Pensacola, Florida)

Cheoy Lee Shipyards (Hong Kong)

Cruise and Ship Technology (Shipbuilding news and technical information)

Diversified Marine Inc. (Custom steel tugboats, motorships, barges, etc., repair and drydocking, Portland, Oregon)

Electric Boat Corporation (Design, construction and lifecycle support of submarines, Groton, Connecticut)

Factorías Vulcano (Vigo, Spain)

Fred Wahl Marine (Haulouts up to 900 tons, new construction and repairs, Reedsport & Toledo, Oregon)

Gunderson Inc. (Ocean going barges and ships, Portland, Oregon)

Halter Marine Group, Inc. (Gulf Coast Shipyards)

Harland & Wolff (Design, engineering and fabrication for the offshore industry, Belfast, Northern Ireland)

Hellenic Shipyards (Skaramanga, Greece)

Hike Metal Products and Shipbuilding Ltd. (Wheatley, Ontario)

Incat Australia (Builder of wave piercing and conventional catamaran ferries)

The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers

Irving Shipbuilding Inc. (Saint John, New Brunswick)

Jeffboat (River towboats, barges and specialty vessels, drydocking and repairs, Jeffersonville, Indiana)

Kvaerner Masa Yards (Builder of cruise ships, passenger ro-ro ferries, LNG carriers, cable ships, icebreakers & ice-going tonnage, & all types of special technology vessels, Helsinki)

Litton Systems Inc. ("Total ship systems solutions," from design and construction to "total life cycle management")

Manitowoc Marine Group (Bay Shipbuilding, Marinette Marine, Toledo Shiprepair, Cleveland Shiprepair)

Moen Slip AS (Newbuildings, conversions, repairs, Norway)

NASSCO/General Dynamics (National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, San Diego Bay, Calfornia)

The Netherlands' Shipbuilding Industry Association (VNSI, represents the interests of the industry, with links to most Dutch shipyards)

Nichols Brothers Boat Builders (Power passenger catamarans, workboats, tugboats, fishing boats, dinner boats, Freeland, Washington)

NKK (Japanese shipbuilder)

NSnet.com ("The maritime industry's chart to news, information and services on the Internet")

Point Hope Maritime (Full service shipyard, Victoria, British Columbia)

Scheepswerf Vooruit (Dutch shipyard)

Schweers Yard (Aluminum and steel luxury yachts to 60 metres, special ship building of all kinds up to 65 metres, repairs & refits, Bardenfleth, Weser, Germany)

The Shipbuilders and Shiprepairers Association (UK trade association)

The Shipbuilders Council of America (Trade association representing the US shipyard industry)

The Shipbuilding Pictures Database (Production-related photographs from the personal library of Mr. Louis D. Chirillo)

Ships and Boats on Order (SABOO, newsletter giving shipyard orders worldwide)

Sundial Marine Construction And Repair, Inc. (Ship and vessel repair, drydocking, conversion and construction, Portland, Oregon)

Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation (Seattle)

Tuzla Shipbuilding Industry Co. Inc. (Shipyard with slipways to 28,000 DWT, new construction to 20,000 DWT, Istanbul, Turkey)

US Shipbuilding and Shipping Data (Including a directory of US shipyards, and lists of US built ships)

Vancouver Shipyards (Design, construction, maintenance and repair of ocean-going vessels, British Columbia)

Victoria Shipyards (Ship construction, repair and conversion, British Columbia)

Vietnam Ship Industry Corporation (Vinashin)

Skin Boats:

The Baidarka Mailing List Archive

The Berkshire Boat Building School (Specializing in skin-on-frame construction, Sheffield, Massachusetts)

Cape Falcon Kayak (Custom canoes and skin-on-frame kayaks, kayak building classes, Manzanita, Oregon)

The Coracle, an Ancient Little Boat

The Coracle Files (A middle aged gent builds himself a coracle)

The Coracle Society

The Elfin, Ontario Coracle Workshop

Faltbootbasteln (Folding boats and their history, in German)

Folbot - Folding Kayaks

The FoldingBoats Mailing List (For builders of folding boats, kayaks, canoes & dinghies)

The Folding Kayak Builders Manual (How to build aluminum framed folding kayaks, with free plans)

Folding Kayaks (Michael J. Edelman's introduction and guide to the world of folding kayaks)

Fridtjof Nansen's Bamboo-Framed Kayak

The Grip Clip^™ Kayak (Green willow shoots, a blue tarp and Grip Clips^™)

Harvey Golden's Thamakau Project (A skin-on-frame Fijian sailing proa)

Hoehn Associates (US importer of Pouch folding kayaks)

The Irish Currach Club of Milwaukee

Kayak Way (A hands-on boatshop. Kayaks, umiaks & skin boat workshops. Eastsound, Orcas Island, Washington)

Klepper Kayaks

Meitheal Mara (Researchers and builders of the Irish currach)

The National Coracle Centre (Cenarth, Wales)

The PakYak Prototype ("From Pak . . . to Yak in 10 minutes!" 12' a truly folding kayak, free online plans)

Persson Manufacturing (Fabric over a wooden frame double-paddle canoes)

Platt Monfort's Geodesic AiroLITE Boats (Kits and plans)

Qajaqs of Peter Strand (Handcrafted eastern Greenland style kayaks, Uncasville, Connecticut)

Qajaq USA (The American chapter of the Greenland Kayaking Club)

Stimson marine Skin Boat Plans

Traditional Kayaks and Other Boats (By Harvey Golden, builder of Inuit and Aleut kayak replicas)

Unicorn Kayaks (Custom skin-on-frame kayaks, kits and building classes, Kunkletown, Pennsylvania)

Software:

The 21st Century Sailing Simulator (Interactive 3D sailing simulator)

Barber Software Solutions (BASS, integrated shipping software for fleet management)

Battlefleet Commander (Free computer game pitting the Royal Navy against the German Kriegsmarine)

BebinkaSoft Nautical Software (Visual sEa Log digital log and EzWind wind prediction software)

Boats & Boats (CDROM containing information, images and layout plans for over 1,350 pleasure boats from the 1970s through the 1990s)

The C2C BlueWater Fish Finder (Computer programs that allow the user to gather and interpret data for finding blue water fish)

BSG Developments (SailPack sail design software)

Capella ECS (Electronic vector chart system and free electronic chart viewer)

The Cap'n, Nautical Technologies (Electronic charting and navigation software)

CombiTech (Mscan & Mscan Meteo programs to receive and transmit, SSTV & fax images, & NAVTEX & RTTY meteorological data via radio)

Des Newman's OziExplorer GPS Mapping Software (Shareware)

dKart Navigator Maritime Navigation Software (Uses C-Map and S-57 vector maps)

DRGMapCal (Program which generates map calibration files for Digital Raster Graphics (DRG) map images)

EasyNav (Low cost software for marine navigation)

Eldridge TideWare (Real-time tide, current and coastal map software)

Flash Data (Sells a database program to look up Florida or US Coast Guard registered boat owners)

Force Ten Software (OnBoard Yacht Management Software^™ for Windows)

Four Soft Limited (Freight management software)

The Fred's Place Careware Ship's Bell Program (With alarm)

Fugawi Navigation Software for GPS Receivers

Gateway Multimedia (The Wheelhouse Companion on CD-ROM

Global Navigation Software Co. (PC chart plotter, GPS, celestial, ARPA, Free-ware demo chart plotter for the navigator who can find his/her way around using a sextant and compass)

GPSBabel (Software to convert waypoints, tracks, and routes from one format to another)

GPSdb (Shareware application to help maintain waypoints, tracks, routes, etc. for Garmin GPS systems)

GpsDrive (Free navigation software for Linux)

GPS Utility (A shareware program for manipulating GPS information)

GPSy^™ (Macintosh GPS communications and GIS mapping program)

Great Lakes Marine Specialties (Computer software, NMEA interfaces, power conditioners)

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

HMS Surprise (A frigate simulator for Windows 95 & NT)

IBIS (Shareware GPS/Mapping Software)

ICAN (Electronic charting software, electronic charting systems)

Information Management Consultants Ltd. (IMC, satellite communications software)

JDMCox Software (USAPhotoMaps creates scrollable/zoomable, GPS compatible aerial photo or topo maps from data from Microsoft's Terraserver)

Jeppesen Marine (Electronic charting software, training software)

JTides (Paul Lutus's free graphical tide prediction software)

Kel Comp (NACA Airfoils shareware foil plotting program)

Laser Plot Inc. (Maker of the ChartNav chartplotter and Sea-D electronic charts)

Laytime Management System (shipping software)

Lightspeed Marine Dealer Management Software

Linden Software (Navigation and tide prediction software)

Local Knowledge (Real-time currents & navigation software from Goflow)

Mad River Research (Test preparation software for the US Coast Guard engineers exam)

Magic Instinct Software (Linux and MacOSX software for navigation, real time seafloor mapping and georeferenced underwater digital video)

Maptech (Digitized charts and navigation software)

Marine Software Limited (Maintenance, stock control, purchasing, dry-dock specifications, cost control systems and bespoke programming)

Maptech (Digitized charts and navigation software)

Marine Computing International Ltd. (Boat managenent, navigation, weather, communications software, games)

Martindale's Sailing Calculators On-Line

MaxSea Marine Software (Navigation software)

MightyGPS (Seller of navigation software, GPS maps, antennas, accessories)

Nautical Software, Inc. (Tides and currents on electronic charts)

NavAid^™ Software for Mariners (Software package which simulates the light flashing sequences of all major buoys and lightstations)

Naval Warfare Simulations (Computer games)

Navigator Light (Navigation software, online almanac, celestial navigation fundamentals)

Nobeltec Corporation (Marine navigation software)

Nomad Electronics (Pocket Stars celestial navigation software for Pocket PCs)

PDAsupport.com (Links to navigation software for PDAs)

Peter Bennett's NMEA-0183 and GPS Information (Also tide and current prediction programs and navigation programs)

Pinpoint Systems International (Electronic charting products)

ProMar Software (Waypoint for Windows navigation software)

Raytheon Marine (RayTech Navigator software)

Sail Simulator & Motorboat Simulator US

SeaClear (Freeware PC navigation software)

Sea Cow Games (Offshore Sailing sail training game)

Sea Information Systems & Thomas Gunn Navigation Services (Navigation software, charts, Admiralty Notices to Mariners. UK)

Seamanship International (Macneil's Seamanship Examiner & other training CDs)

Shipanalysis (Software for the shipping industry)

ShipBase 2002 (Free ship database software)

ShipPlotter (Displays complete information about ships that are within VHF range of your position using the Universal Automatic Identification System, AIS)

Silent Hunter (WW II submarine simulation game)

Southern Seas Marine (Australian distributor of Nobeltec navigation software, digital charts & maps)

Starpath School of Navigation (Classroom and home study, software, books, Seattle)

Stentec Software (Boat design, sailing simulation and navigation software)

Stormy Weather SoftWare (Tide, Morse code, race results shareware)

TactiX (Racing and performance software for day-racing)

Valve Gear on the Computer (A DOS program that simulates steam engine valve gears of all sorts)

Virtual Sailor ("The virtual sailing simulator")

Virtual Skipper (3D, real-time simulator of sailing races in the world's most famous coastal areas)

Walt Bilofsky's Tide Tool Tide Computation Software for Palm Handhelds (Freeware)

Waterman Services ("Suppliers of computer solutions for the mariner", Vancouver, BC)

Waypoint (Navigation software)

The Wolf Bay Group Yard-Manager System (Boatyard job cost management software)

WXTide32 (Free tide and current prediction software for Win95/NT)

XTide (Free harmonic tide clock and tide predictor for Unix and X11)

(See also Design Software)

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