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Sailboat delivery on the US east coast via
the intracoastal waterway, or offshore, or to anywhere else.
The
Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center
(FNMOC)
Wind Speed Wave
Height (Fleet NMOC) and
Naval Oceanography Portal
Currents; animation from sat data Magnificent!
Online chart viewer from NOAA
Local
Marine Traffic Via AIS Data
Wind Rose Charts
Free charts on the web
from NOAA
Ocean Weather
- a good site for waves ...
National Hurricane Service
Gulf Stream thermals
and here
Why do
boats sink? and how to prevent it. (a PDF from BoatUS)
Windspeed via Windfinder.com and
Windalert
Portsmouth Dominica Yacht Support
Active Captain an "interactive cruising guidebook" ; please know about
this!
A site showing
Charts over satellite images, along
with local knowledge; looks useful
Go east while north young
sailor to the Caribbean
Why so many deliveries have
engine problems
And
more on this
Check the diesel engine
yourself but please also have a mechanic AND a surveyor in at your
purchase.
And why stop with engine issues; what
of the rest of the
boat you
are thinking of buying?
Why are your friends ( not you!
:>) ) getting sea sick? A good discussion of various boats and their
motion
here, and the original formula
here A well
cited study on motion sickness
here. You can also run useful queries yourself on Google by "msi motion
sickness".
More
Photos from various deliveries
For mediocre web site design but really
good network engineering and data base programming you should go
here
and here for
MS Access
Database work in New York
and here for
custom software made in the USA
A short
home made film on sailing in home waters |
