Links

Links

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International Organisms

IMO - International Maritime Organization

ISAF - Offshore special regulations (OSR)

Rescue - Safety

UK

MAIB (Marine Accidents Investigation Branch)

Maritime and Coast Guards Agency, and Royal Navy Search and Rescue

France

BEA (Bureau Enquête sur les Évenements en Mer)

SNSM (Société nationale de Sauvetage en Mer)

España

CPISM (Ministerio de Fomento- Comisión Permanente de Investigación de Asuntos Marítimos)

Salvamento Marítimo

USA

US coast guards

NGA-MSI - National Geospacial Intelligence Agency - Marine Safety Information (USA)

Accident reports

MAIB (2017) - Investigation report 7/2017 - Report on the investigation of two fatal accidents (...). pdf (copyright MAIB 2017)

Comment.Thorough analysis of two lethal accidents. Beyond the technical factors, two persons died because of short mistakes:

- one of them crossed the danger zone under the boom at the wrong moment;

- the other one remained untied a few minutes to help fixing a minor problem.

Safety devices

Series drogues (Jordan's cones)

Experiments and calculus. Hervey, C.L., Jordan, D.J. (1877) Investigation of the use of drogues to improve the safety of sailing yachts. US Coast Gards report AD A188 598 (html) (pdf)

Fabrication. Lynn, D. Heavy Weather Sailing - Making a Series Drogue (pdf)

Self-rescue tether and omni-anchoring belt (commercial)

All flotation devices: www.equipements-flottaison.org (consultant's page, mostly in french)

Nautical charts

Free

NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA) - Free Nautical charts USA www.noaa.gov

Marinha do Brazil - Free Nautical charts Brazil www.mar.mil.br

Others (disclaimer: compliance with copyrights is responsibility of these sites )

velerolaargentina

nauticalfree

Non-free

IHM - Instituto Hidrográfico de la Marina (Spain) www.armada.mde.es

SHOA - Servicio Hidrográfico y Atmosférico de la Armada (Chile) www.shoa.cl

SHOM - Service Hydrographique et Oceánographique de la Marine (France) www.shom.fr

UKHO - United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UK) www.ukho.gov.uk

Software

Free

Weather ZyGrib, UGrib,

Electronic chart plotters: SeaClear, Open CPN,

Navigation (tides, astronomical navigation, magnetic deviation, etc.): Navigational Algorithms,

Tides: WXTide 32, Free tide calculator / Marées dans le monde.

Non-Free

Pilot charts: Visual passage planner

Electronic chart plotters: Max Sea

Books & articles (free)

Books for sail

Single handed sailing society - resources sfbaysss.org

Forums

Boats and sailors

if you want to be here, contact us.

English

Jimmy Cornell

Skip Novak

French

Banik

Sextan

Data & animations

NOAA - National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)

myocean ocean monitoring and forecasting. avoid if you can (they do not produce data)

Animations

Wind - global wind animation -nullschool

Nasa - currents animation - perpetual ocean

Nasa - deep ocean currents - thermohaline circulation

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