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
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.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)
Sailing - General
Boating Organizations
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.phrfne.org/page/567 Handicap page shows T37-1 CB base handicap 177 (08Sep07),
- 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:
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
- [package] has same pages as Capt. Mike's handouts c.Feb08, except with more pages (10 total)
- 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
Maintenance Guides and Philosophies
- batteries
- http://www.boatpoint.com.au/boat-review/2987205.aspx general battery info
- http://www.swordfishingcentral.com/odyssey-batteries.html odyssey propaganda
- http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f14/agm-batteries-vs-wet-cell-11996.html discussion at the cruiser forum
- thru-hulls, pump replacements
- http://www.pbase.com/mainecruising/boat_projects excellent guides with lots of detail and pictures
- eye-splices
Boston Harbor Marinas
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