Useful Sailing Links

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British Offshore Sailing School.

One of the largest sailing schools in the UK.
Col Regs Chart.
Skysail have an excellent training site with lots of information covering the RYA courses, plus they have also created the Collision Regulations Chart.

Royal National Lifeboat Institution

Try the RNLI interactive training challenge.

Skysail Day Skipper / Yachtmaster Theory Course

Lots of useful resources for anyone taking an RYA theory course.
Sailwx - links to tidal height tables for the world. Sailwx have some very useful tidal and weather links. Just scroll down the page and enter the lat. and long. you are interested in.
Hot Potatoes
Hot Potatoes is the programme used to create some of the tests on this site. It is very simple to use and can be downloaded easily.
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/Maps/United_Kingdom.shtml Weather buoy data.
http://www.sailingissues.com/navcourse0.html A navigation training site.
http://www.sailnet.com/collections/learningtosail/rules/start.htm

A useful educational site.

http://www.klabautermann.de/index.html Loads of animations of knots (in German).
http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/fmg-members/geoff/mnemonics.html Great tips for remembering the Rules.

Royal Yachting Association

The UK's sailing authority.
http://www.bluemoment.com/downloads.html An interesting nautical site with useful downloads. Try the nautical lights test generator.
http://www.michaelbriant.com/sailing.htm Lots of practical experiences and advice for sailors.
The Jester Challenge Sail the Atlantic in a self reliant manner.

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