Summertime invites boaters to sail away, but you don't have to be regatta-ready to enjoy the wind at your back. Chris Santella, author of Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die, shares favorite spots to raise the sails. More>>
BWS' 10 great places for sailors to take a brand-new tack
ActiveCaptain Cruising Guide
FROMMERS: Best Places to Sail
Map of 10 Best Places to Sail in the US Mainland
From "Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die" by Chris Santella.
From "Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die" by Chris Santella.
DiscoverBoating's: Top 10 Destinations
LEARN: Free interactive sailing lessons will take you from an absolute beginner to a confident sailing student who can communicate well with your instructor and classmates.
READ: The electronic version of
L&A's Seafaring, Latitude 38, Carolina Currents,48 Degrees North, Points East, Great Lakes Scuttbutt, Southwinds, Caribbean Compass, Spinsheet, and Ocean Navigator.
L&A's Seafaring, Latitude 38, Carolina Currents,48 Degrees North, Points East, Great Lakes Scuttbutt, Southwinds, Caribbean Compass, Spinsheet, and Ocean Navigator.
DEFINE: Understand the definitions of common nautical words and phrases
CHECK: Five ready-to-use Day Sail checklists that can be viewed for FREE on your iPhone or any other Web - Enabled - Device
EXPERIENCE is a great teacher, and this is a excellent place to start. In this section we bring you the experiences of thousands of miles of sailing, without leaving your seat.
CHART: 1018 NOAA charts over Google Maps, with US Coast Guard Navigation Aids and NOAA Chart 1 Symbols. Makes it the perfect tool for students exploring any US coastline
WATCH: Expanded section includes dozens of excellent videos involving sailing training, knot tying, racing, bloopers, and fun commentary presented in High Definition.
UNDERSTAND: Our Points of Sail lesson clearly illustrates not only the Point of Sail and the Mainsail position, it also includes the tack, the wind angle, and the masthead wind direction.
PLAN: Where do you go once you have learned sail? These great websites will help you plan you future behind the helm.
PREDICT: These excellent weather related resources were collected and contributed by Bill Biewenga. All the resources you need to keep an eye on the weather
SEE: Increase your comfort level and confidence with sailboat images identifying key areas of a sailboat.
SAY: We welcome your comments and ideas. If something needs to be clarified, or you think it's great, just drop us a note and tell us...
MAIN: Return to Port
Virtually every large-scale hotel in the Caribbean provides small sailboats (most often Sunfish, Sailfish, and small, one-masted catamarans) for its guests. For larger craft, the almost-ideal sailing conditions in the Virgin Islands and The Grenadines come instantly to mind. More>>
Explore these breath-taking boating destinations or submit your own. Tell us about your favorite places to go boating! More>>
BOATMAINE's Gunk Holes in Maine
Top 10 places to sail along Britain's coastline
Norfolk and Suffolk coastline: With 250 miles of coastline, the East of England offers some of the best areas for sailing in the country and is home to the famous Burnham Week the longest running annual yacht regatta on the UK mainland. More>>
Island Magazine: 10 Best Islands to Live On
Norfolk and Suffolk coastline: With 250 miles of coastline, the East of England offers some of the best areas for sailing in the country and is home to the famous Burnham Week the longest running annual yacht regatta on the UK mainland. More>>
Where Sailing, Diving and Snorkling Mix
SPORT DIVER, The Official PADI Publication, has put together a list of 180 hot Destinations for 2010. We have pick out a few that tend to match up with popular sailing destinations.
Fun for the Whole Crew: Caribbean Regattas
Antigua's sailing week may be the best-known Caribbean regatta, but there are plenty of other noteworthy annual sailing events from the Exumas to the Grenadines. More>>
The NOAA BookletChart™ is an experimental product that you can print at home for free. They are made to help recreational boaters locate themselves on the water.
The Booklet Chart is reduced in scale and divided into pages for convenience, but otherwise contains all the information of the full-scale nautical chart. Bar scales are also reduced in scale, but are accurate when used to measure distances in a BookletChart. Excerpts from the United States Coast Pilot are included. Most chart notes are consolidated on a single page for easy reference. Emergency information for the charted area is printed on the back cover. More>>
The Booklet Chart is reduced in scale and divided into pages for convenience, but otherwise contains all the information of the full-scale nautical chart. Bar scales are also reduced in scale, but are accurate when used to measure distances in a BookletChart. Excerpts from the United States Coast Pilot are included. Most chart notes are consolidated on a single page for easy reference. Emergency information for the charted area is printed on the back cover. More>>
Print Free NOAA Charts on 81/2 x 11 Paper
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By laying 1018 NOAA charts over Google Maps, the Marine GeoGarage allows you to effortlessly visualize chart details. They have just added route charting and export to Garmin to improve your experience. With on screen US Coast Guard Navigation Aids and NOAA Chart 1 Symbols.More>>
GeoGarage Marine: NOAA Charts & Route Planning with Garmin Export
In an effort to reach our goal of becoming the ultimate resource for new sailors, we recieved approval from Amazon and their network to host their Cruising Guides and Charts. We organized the guides so they would be easy to find, and allow you to create a wishlist. For safety, we made it so you can purchase using the secure Amazon checkout. More>>
Cruising Guides and Charts
If you considering sailing in congested waters, you've probably heard about about Automatic Identification System (AIS)... Now you can experience it!. Use the interactive Google map to view ships in various locations on the US Coast. Marinetraffic.com has built this exciting learning tool, and we have combined it with the US Coast Guard explanation of the fundamentals of how AIS works. In addition, we have added several articles and a podcast you can download and listen to.
East Coast Tide Charts
NOAA Tide predication charts for three dozen popular saling areas along the east cost from Maine to the Keys. Include Interactive Google Map for those who love to gunkhole off the beaten path. More>>
Searching for a way to download a NOAA navigation chart to your laptop.? This great resource page was created by Bob Webster. He has stored these charts in a PNG image format and they are HUGE files, allowing you to save them to your laptop with excellent detail (most webpages are low resolution making zooming impossible). We hope you find Bob's efforts to be as helpful as we do.
