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• East Coast Sailing
• East Coast Pilot
• East Coat Rivers
• East Coast Chartlets
• Crossing the Thames Estuary
• Visit my harbour
• Yacht Pilot
• Tides - North Fambridge
• Crossing Biscay
• channelpilot
• Baltic Sea
• Sailing in Europe
• Kiel Canal
• Sailing in Greece
• JimB sail
• Offshoreblue guides

Tools

• sea-seek.com
• sea-distances.com

Weather

• Windguru
• Weather (B-O-C)
• The Weather Window
• Passageweather.com

Safety

• CG66 registration

Forums

• Ybw
• Sailnet
• Macsailing
• Woodenboat
• Cruisersforum

Cruising

• Gilana
• Bluemoment
• Attainable Adventure Cruising
• Baltic-North Sea and here
• First Channel Crossing (RYA)
• Skipper-2-skipper
• European Waterways

Boatbuilding

• diy-wood-boat
• restoration
• cat design
• Woods designs
• Blue Water Boats

Training

• Sailtrain
• Sailtrain UK 
• Theory Course

Projects

• From a bare hull (Westsail 42)
• The daysailor project
• http://lavillemain.blogspot.co.uk/

Engine

• Yanmar 1GM10 exhaust elbow maintenance & winterising
• Yanmar 1GM10 service
• Yanmar 1GM10 advice

Repair & maintenance

• Contessa 26 Re-fit pics
• Bristol 29 re-fit 
• Cutting reefing points on a sail
• Mast compression
• Epoxy Sheathing
• Gelcoat repair (youtube video)
• Alternator repair
• Mechanical & electrical 
• http://www.pbase.com/mainecruising/boat_projects - very detailed maintenance guides with useful pics
• Fitting a thru-hull & seacock 
• Seacock materials
• Buntline hitch
• Bilge pumps
• RVG windvane
• Galvanic isolators, corrosion, anodes
• Rigging checklist
• Rigging survey
• Bilge pumps
• Emergency hull repair

Articles

• It's choice, not luck
• Long-term cruising budgets
• The ideal cruising boat
• Reasons for singlehading
• Sheet-to-tiller self-steering
• VHF/UHF emergency frequencies

Books

• Sailing Alone Around the World - Joshua Slocum
• Maiden Voyage - Tania Aebi
• Across Islands and Oceans - James Baldwin
• Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor - Paul Lutus
• Self-Steering under sail - Peter Christian Förthmann

UK Chandlers

• Marine Megastore
• Force 4
• Marinestore
• Mailspeed Marine

Videos

• Yachting TV
• Sailmaking

Sailors

• Webb Chiles
• Yrvind - amazing, mad guy who sailed boats he built himself
• The Simple Sailor - Roger Taylor - perhaps a sailing legend
• Atom Voyages - James Baldwin
• The Pardeys
• Pete Goss

Races

• Cowes Week
• RTIR
• Burnham week

Smartphone apps

• Navionics Marine UK-Holland ***
• Tides Planner (Tucabo-Imray)
• Marine Day Tides
• Marina Guide
• Boating Cafe
• Boatie
• SalingAlmanac
• WindGuru **
• MeteoMarine ***
• MX-Mariner - Android
• Marine Weather (Bluefin) - Android
• MarineTraffic AIS

Windvanes

• Windvane 101
• Self-Steering under sail
• Mistervee
• Walt Murray

East-coast Marinas

• Tollesbury
• Sandwich
• North Fambridge
• Essex