Links

Please feel free to add your favorite sailing links that would be helpful to Nevermore sailors

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

SUPPLIES GENERAL SALES

http://www.westmarine.com West Marine shop online

catalog is aboard Nevermore; local store Woburn and other locations in MA

https://www.portsupply.com West Marine jobber (wholesale) web sales

same prices also available at retail stores; certain skippers & staff have access

http://www.defender.com/ Defender mail-order (e.g. Ted found tricolor there winter '07-08)

SUPPLIES SPECIFIC TO TARTAN / WESTERBEKE

http://www.tartanparts.com/

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://tartanowners.org/

http://tone.tartanowners.org/home.htm

http://www.tartanowners.org/tone.phtml

TONE = Tartan Owners of New England (the website guy has a T37C)

Sailing - General

MIT Sailing

Racing

• http://www.phrfne.org/page : Performance Handicap Racing Fleet - New England
  • (http://www.phrfne.org/page/567 Handicap 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)
  • (click "offshore" to get to big-boat racing info: schedule, previous years' results, etc)
  • yyyy - the "200x Mass Bay Sailing Offshore Book" link describes all MBSA races for the year
  • 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)
  • 2001 - 2005 offshore race [results] shows Aleida standings when raced by MIT crews
• 2006 TODO: find Aleida's results in Buzzards Bay (or Figawi?) racing, where some MIT racer reported seeing her
• personal websites:
  • 2001 - 2005 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

Maritime Regulations

• American Boatschool [website] has general info about the course that 4 former Aleida captains
  and 3 prospective Nevermore skippers are using Jan-June 2008.

• Boatwise CG license course [material] has USCG application forms with same version levels
  as American Boatschool application packet handed out to class @ May08
  Note: Aleida skippers upgrading to 6-pack tickets aren't actually using this school's offerings

• [USCG Merchant Marine Licensing] site seems to have general, and possibly specific, info needed to apply for 6-pack;
  One navigation path is Charter Boat Capt. | OUPV in top menu list
  • [package] has same pages as Capt. Mike's handouts c.Feb08, except with more pages (10 total)
    but without the fill-in forms
  • this site is too inscrutable for Thom to find the actual data forms needed too (May08)
    and we like the "Boatwise" site above for these forms

• Grossetti [License Consulting] website has many links, including
  • packages of forms for applying for licenses (similar to ones given us by Boatwise)
  • look up CG-documented boats (owner, size, etc., by official number or by name) (NOAA)
  • definition of the USCG's "inland" vs "near coastal" Boundary Line for licensing
  • vessel equipment checklists