Sailing & Cruising

"Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one." -- J. P. Morgan

Scirocco

My new old Morgan OutIsland 41, a sloop rigged full keel sailboat. For the latest adventures, Click Here


From the bow
Under Way
At Anchor
Interior Magazine Review
Spinsheet O/I 41 review
The Morgan 41 page
The ever-growing ToDo list
A most unlikely Sea Chanty

Online Sailing Courses

Basic Keelboat Sailing
Coastal Navigation
Boating Safety

Basics of Crewing

An article on crewing
Offshore Crewing basics
SF-sailing Crew List
First timer's guide to crusing Mexico

San Francisco bay sailing conditions

Bay wind model
Bay tides model
Current marine forcast
Another Current marine forcast
Wind Reports (a sailboarder site)

Views

KPIX webcam
KPIX webcam (2)

Local websites and publications

Latitude 38
Caribbean Compass
Bay Sail

Cruising Gear

West Marine
Lehmans non-electric catalog
Transmission Marine
Anyone know a URL for the 'Wash Wiz'?
Follow-Me-TV

General Sailing & Cruising

Online sailing course
Bluewater Sailing, PDF backissues
S/V Andraecium
Island Hopping website
Online Nautical Almanac
Bowditch - American Practical Navigator (in PDF format)
SailNet
YachtWorld (boat listings)
Once apon an island
Alby Mangel's World Safari
USCG Search of documented vessles
Bill Dietrich

Some of our trips

Singlehanding through the Alviso sloughs
A rough trip to the south side of Alemeda
Delivering Scirocco from San Diego

Sites for californa costal conditions

Forcast Discussion, Northern California
Pacific sea state analysys
Point Conception Bouy
Southern california wind patterns
SoCal Marine Forcast
Some other forcast
More pacific weather images than you can shake a stick at
Large scale charts (large download size)
Pacific sea-level presure analysis and surface observations (legend)
Mapfinder, charts online

Carribean

Carribean weather
NOAA text high-seas marine forcasts
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/home.htm Carribean NOAA

Navigation

Excelent online coastal navigation course
Plotting sheets (postscript)
Reeds almanac goodies

Radio stuff

FCC license for shipboard radio operation (PDF)
10 Meter band
wwv time
shortwave weather
SW & HAM Frequencies and bands