New, current and/or interesting stuff that caught my eye:

Iain Oughtred Designs listed with Duck Flat Wooden Boats

The Big Page

• Mother of All Maritime Links from John Kohnen

Pacific Northwest Sailing & Boating Pages

• Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle
• The Columbia River sailing page
• Depoe Bay, Oregon -- Wooden Boat Festival and Crab Feed
  • Pictures from the 2001 Depoe Bay Wooden Boat Festival
• The Lady Washington - a beautiful replica of the 1780s Pacific coast trading ship
• Oregon State Marine Board
  • Online publications, including Boating in Coastal Waters with harbor descriptions
  • Regulations
  • Forms
• Port Townsend, Washington Wooden Boat Festival
• Reservoir Status in Rogue River Basin (Oregon)
• RiversWest in Portland, Oregon - building and using traditional small craft
• Rogue Yacht Club in Southern Oregon
• Sea Scout Ship 601 in Portland, Oregon - they have a cool looking open-cockpit Cascade 29
• Triton Yacht Club - Eugene, OR
• Vancouver Lake Sailing Club in Vancouver, Washington
• Willamette Sailing Club in Portland, Oregon

Boat Building

• The Cheap Pages from Craig O'Donnell -- boats, sails, bamboo, guitars(?)
• Duckworks online magazine with an index to web pages of projects and plans
• Jim Michalak's Boat Designs and Essays
• Bolger Boats
  • My Bolger Nymph - the one the boys thought would never hit the water
  • Phil Bolger & Friends web site – still under construction (and I suspect it always will be)
    • PB&F Contact Information
  • Bolger Boat Links from the Light Schooner Website
  • Chebacco News - great online newletter
  • Harold H. "Dynamite" Payson & Co. -- Bolger's Instant Boats -- Plans, books, sails
  • Nord Koster canoe yawl -- professionally built by William Clements
  • Yahoo Groups for Bolger Boats – a very active discussion group (formerly eGroups)
• Other Plans and Designers
  • Arch Davis Design includes the Penobscot 17
  • B&B Yacht Designs
  • Bear Mountain Boat Shop - canoe & kayak plans
  • Boat Plans Online at bateau.com
  • Dave Carnell's Boatbuilding page -- $200 Sailboat, paint advise, etc.
  • Campion Sail & Design
  • Chesapeake Light Craft - kayak plans & kits
  • Chesapeake Marine Design
  • Data Boat International - tips, catalogs of plans (none online), books, videos
  • Duck Trap Woodworking - lapstrake boats
  • Iain Oughtred Designs:
    • Duck Flat Wooden Boats has plans, including Oughtred's
    • Independence Boatworks builds them - some pictures online
    • Caledonia Yawl Crazybird
    • Open Boat Cruising - Ness Yawl and more Crazybird
  • Jordan Wood Boats - includes Footloose
  • Self-Steering design from Walt Murray – for the home builder
  • Selway Fisher Design - interesting & classic designs for ply & strip plank
  • Sponberg Yacht Design - products include plans for Halfling, a nesting pram
  • Stevenson Projects - home to the Weekender
  • John Welsford - designs include Navigator
  • Wharram Designs - the catamaran people
    • PCA – Wharram owners group
    • Austrian Wharram Circle
• Epoxy Suppliers
  • Raka - small outfit recommended by members of the Bolger eGroup
  • Fiberglass Coatings - also recommended in the Bolger eGroup
  • SystemThree (if you can get their attention -- I couldn't)
  • West System - online User Manual under "Using WS Epoxy" tab on web page
• Kits and Suppliers
  • Carlson Design - Plotter/Cutters and Hull Design FreeWare
  • Edensaw Woods, Ltd - specialty wood supplier
  • Flounder Bay Boat Lumber - Anacortes WA
  • Into the Wind has Tyvek without the usual label
  • Noah's has marine plywood -- watch carefully, there are separate pages for US & Canadian prices
  • Jamestown Distributors - hardware - huge online catalog
  • White Polytarp Sails polytarp sail kits and instructions
  • Sailmaker's Supply
  • Sailrite sail kits
  • Ulta Sail - Stock sails for Bolger & Stevenson plus custom
• Woodworking Tools
• US Forest Service's Forest Products Laboratory documents
  • Wood Handbook -- technical information about wood (PDF files)
  • Plywood Information from Chapter 10 -- in HTML format
• Free Boat Design Resources on the web
• Boat Building WebRing

Other Sailing & Boating Pages

• American Canoe Association - National Sailing Committee - Rig & sail your canoe
• Cascade 29 brochure
• Chesapeake Bay Log Sailing Canoe Association -- sure don't look like dugouts
• Cruising Dinghies and Trailer Sailers - with info on the Roamer dinghy
• Dinghy Cruising Association - cruise your little boat
• Fishmeal's page
• Haze Grey and Underway - Naval History and Photography
• HoloHolo Hawai'i Marine News
• IYRU International Yacht Racing Union - including rules, class info & schedules
• J.B.'s Boatyard - includes some Bolger information
• Laser Class
• MapTech MapServer - online nautical charts - also topo maps and aeronautical charts
• Mark Rosenstein's Links - a big page of maritime links and information
• NavRules - a great Windows-based trainer for navigation lights, shapes & sounds
• NMEA-0183 and GPS Information - tech, FAQs, software
• Open Boat Cruising from the UK
• Patrick O'Brian Web Resource List -- The author of the Aubrey/Maturin series
• Pirate Images
• Pocket Cruiser Guide - lots of small sailing cruisers
• Polynesian Voyaging Society
• Proa File from Schacht Design -- includes some great crabclaw sail information
• The Race – catamarans racing around the world
• rec.boats FAQ
• Sailing Canoe Conversion and Cruising - great pictures
• Fredrik Sandström's Sailing Ships page
• Ship Plans from the Smithsonian Institution - $10 catalogs
• Thames Sailing Barges
• Traditional Small Craft Association and its Puget Sound Chapter
• US Coast Guard
• Sailing for Everyone WebRing
• The Wooden Canoe Heritage Association - for the traditional North American canoe
  • Paddle Making - how to make a beautiful paddle
• Yahoo's list of sailing pages

Tides & Marine Weather

• HarborTides -- Online Tide Tables (for example: Brookings, OR )
• Tide and Current Predictor - online plus FTP to XTIDE software
• offshoreweather.com – weather, tides, satellite by Zip or Lat-Lon – lots of graphics (Brookings)
• Oregon Climate Service at OSU - includes marine forecasts
• My collection of weather pages …
• Weather Underground - click the map
• Marine buoy weather & sea-state reports from NOAA's National Data Buoy Center
  • Northwest US, SW Canada - Interactive Map
    • Columbia River Bar (id 46029) 46.2 N,124.2 W - Map
    • Tatoosh Island, WA (id TTIW1) 48.4 N, 124.7 W - Map
    • St. Georges Reef, CA (id 46027) 41.85 N, 124.38 W - Map

Commercial Pages

• Armchair Sailor - Nautical books
• Barkley Sound Oar and Paddle
• Brian Toss Rigging - home of the Rigger's Apprentice
• Cascade Yachts
• Gig Harbor Boat Works - Builders of Whitehalls, Dories, and rowing and sailing dinghies
• Harken boat products
• MarineSource Network - yacht brokers
• The Sailing Life brokerage in Portland, Oregon
• West Marine catalog
• World Cruiser Yacht Co. - Westsail !
• Yacht World - online brokers

Boating Publications and Mailing Lists

• CruisingWorld
• Duckworks (online) magazine ** Now requires paid subscription (Apr 2003) **
• 48 Degrees North – Pacific Northwest US
• Good Old Boat - for sailors who own older boats
• Latitude 38 – California US
• Messing About in Boats – Small, personal and interesting. Subscribe!
• Jim Michalak's (online) Boat Designs and Essays
• Sail Magazine
• WaterTribe (online)- kayaking, canoeing, canoe and kayak sailing, small multihulls
• WoodenBoat
• woodenboat.net.nz (online) - wooden boats, New Zealand style
• Usenet news groups through Google Groups
  • rec.boats
  • rec.boats.building
  • rec.boats.cruising
• Yahoo Discussion Groups on Boating - these can be old fashioned Email lists or can be read from the web
  • Boat Design - focus on small, low-cost, home-built boats.
  • Bolger Groups: Bolger, Bolger2, Bolger3 and Bolger4Sale
  • Michalak's Small Boat Designs
  • OpenBoat - dinghy cruising with a lot of UK input
  • Sailing Canoes (you need to join to see the messages for this one)
  • Western Oregon Messabout

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