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Our Sailing Boats
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| Portsmouth '98 | A few photos from The International Festival of the Sea at Portsmouth. |
| Links | To Organisations |
| Maritime and Coastguard Agency | This is the UK Coastguard site. Interesting in itself, but also with many useful links. |
| RNLI | The Royal National Lifeboat Institute. Our national lifeboat service, funded entirely by charity. Send them some money. |
| NFSS | The National Fedaration of Sailing Schools. |
| YCA | The Yacht Charter Association |
| BMIF | The British Marine Industries Federation |
| RYA | The Royal Yachting Association. Supporting the interests of yacht and boat owners throughout the UK. |
| Links | To Marine Data sites |
| Marinedata | Data Site. |
| Sailinks | Data Site. |
| Met
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Weather Forecast |
Meteorological Office and Weather Forecasts. |
| Weather Online UK
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UK weather, Ireland weather and climate information. Often better than Met Office. |
| A really reliable forecast
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Dirty days hath September
April June and November From January up to May The rain it raineth every day All the rest have thirty-one Without a blessed gleam of sun And if any of them had two-and-thirty They'd be just as wet and twice as dirty. |
| Links | To Magazines |
| CB | Classic Boat. |
| YM | Yachting Monthly |
| PBO | Practical Boat Owner. |
| Links | To Software |
| PC Maritime | Mostly Windows stuff, though PC Navigator 3 runs on Linux under dosemu -- and you can write up passage plans in a different console. |
| Xtide | X-Window System based Tide calculator. |
| New Wave Systems | The Nautilus Boat design system. Absolutely the only Windows software I run, and I do that out-of-hours at work. |
| Links | Misc. |
| The Rowing Service | Rachael Quarrell's Really rather good rowing website. |
