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"How To" Articles
MyBOATSgear provides "How To" Articles to help you learn about a host of boating related topics.
We provide information about the technology, plus many examples of products and manufacturers that
offer solutions.
For a full list of articles in each category click on the subject link.
- Boating skills, MOB devices, Distress Signals, Medical kits,
USCG Required Equipment, Boarding ladders
- London, Annapolis, METS, Southampton,
Trawler Fest
- Fuel
Polishing & Diesel issues and E -10 Gasoline, Anchors & Anchoring,
Nautical Gifts, Watermakers Part 1, Boat Monitoring position & systems
- Reefing techniques and
equipment, Racing tips, tactics and strategy
Communications Topics - VHF-DSC, Satellite, Weather, Wi-Fi, SSB, Cellular,
NMEA 2000, position polling
Navigation Topics -
Navigation, Binoculars, AIS, Chart plotting, ENC,
Boat Equipment Reviews - Outfitting your boat (Wauquiez, J/122)
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Boating Web sites
Online Marine Cew Network
There are many online crew networks. This one has a lot of boats looking for crew and crew seeking positions, plus a high traffic count and regular turnover. They claim to be number 1 online Marine Crew & Boat Network.
Find a Crew Worldwide
Island Hopper
Cruising World carried this story in December. Reality TV has gotten to the cruising world with Island Hopper.
Island Hopper
The Nautical Information Source
Search boats for sale, search through 1,415 yacht brokers, 286 electronic suppliers, 980 marine surveyors, and 120 Sailmakers. You can search by Company, City, State, and Country.
Y is for Yachts!
Portal for crew communications
Crew listings portal find crew seek crew
Sailing Networks
Bennett marine video
Americas biggest collection of sailing, boating, fishing, diving and GPS video.
Video collection
Marinas.com
Worldwide aerial photographs of marinas, inlets & harbors. Great resource for navigation trip planning. Look for aerial image of your marina. Click on marinas, then country then state then look up alphabetically.
Marinas.com
Worldwide POI & forum
SkipperGuide is a platform, where everybody can exchange experiences about his favorite sailing waters. See Points Of Interest (POI) for the Chesapeake Bay add or change your own POIs. Active Captain is another POI navigational guide.
Skippers guide
POI state wide mapping
Points of Interest can be seen and added to Active Captain. You have to subscribe to this Free service and who knows where it will go, by adding POIs from users they can build a map of boating places around the world, and give cruisers a place to go and find the local hot spots and anchorages etc.
Active Captain
Cruiser Forums
Web Site for cruisers with discussion boards. Last I looked they had the most users online way back in 04 at over 1,000 users. Thats pretty impressive resourse. Discussions include, cruiser destinations, equipment rants and raves, and also practical information. Good recourse for the cruiser to ask questions and get answers. I see logs from as far away as New Zealand who spell Harbor Harbour.
Cruisers Forum
Livesaildie
Blog network plus performance dinghy news, LSD is run by Johnsee and OG and they run a sailing school and and all marine sports (regattas etc.) at a yacht club in Brisbane, Australia. LSD contains great video a fun site for the small boat sailor. They have a discussion forum with lots of good content
Livesaildie
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