Links
Please feel free to add your favorite sailing links that would be helpful to Nevermore sailors
Contents
Nautical Terminology
http://www.seatalk.info has an excellent and extensive nautical dictionary
Knots
http://www.iwillknot.com/ has videos on how to tie knots
http://www.sailingusa.info/sailing_knots.htm
If you are going to sail regularly, it's important you know how to tie a bowline, how to cleat properly, and how to do a clove hitch. If you might have a winch overrun, or get a lobster trap line in your prop, you'll want to have learned the rolling-hitch.
Supplies/Parts
http://www.westmarine.com West Marine shop online
http://www.tartanyachts.com (hmmm... only new models, "Parts" link goes to above URL)
http://www.yachtworld.com/tartanccbristol/ Our local dealer (in Rhode Island) (per an info request Nov07 to their HQ)
http://www.hansenmarine.com Hansen Marine, Marblehead - deliver parts quickly
- (note that they don't have our W50 listed in their "fast-moving parts" lists)
http://www.westerbeke.com/ for our Westerbeke 50 engine (AKA W 50 in many of their ref pages)
Good Old Boat/Torreson Marine, Inc Online Parts Catalog for Westerbeke 50
- (also has diagrams like Nevermore's #23157 Parts List doc)
FairClough sailmakers of Nevermore's winter cover (New Haven, CT)
- (has instructional video of erecting cover featuring our own Nevermore)
MA Regulations
http://www.boat-ed.com/ma/course/p4-subtable.htm
Tartan Organizations
http://www.tartan37.com/ and http://www.tartan37.com/t37forum/
http://tone.tartanowners.org/home.htm
http://www.tartanowners.org/tone.phtml
- TONE = Tartan Owners of New England (the website guy has a T37C)
Boating Organizations
Racing-oriented sites:
- http://www.phrfne.org/page : Performance Handicap Racing Fleet - New England
- (http://www.phrfne.org/page/567 H'cap page shows T37-1 CB base handicap 177 (08Sep07),
- other h'caps therein include: T37-1 (174), T37-2 (129), T37-3 Scheel keel (126)).
- http://www.massbaysailing.org/ : Mass. Bay Sailing Association (racing)
- 2007 race [results] page 2 shows Nevermore's predecessor Aleida had 3-way tie with 9 boats finishing ahead and 46 after in Flip-Flop pursuit race)
- 2006 TODO: find Aleida's results in Buzzards Bay (or Figawi?) racing, where some MIT racer reported seeing her
- 2001 - 2005 offshore race [results] shows Aleida standings when raced by MIT crews
- 2001 - 2007 racing [summary] outlines Aleida's MIT racing career and personnel who raced
- 1983, 1985, 2007 racing [summary] outlines Nevermore's races by former owner, and by MIT crew