Links to other sites

Here are some other sites on the World Wide Web which the folks at New Haven Power Squadron have found interesting. Each of these links will open a new window; you can simply close that window to return to this page. Remember, these sites are not under the control of New Haven Power Squadron, and NHPS cannot be responsible for what you find (or don't find) there. New Haven Power Squadron is a) not getting paid to display these links, b) not endorsing any product or service provided by organizations that are linked, c) was not asked to provide the link, d) offering it as a convenience, and e) we retain the right to remove the link at our sole discretion.

Power Squadron sites

Build a Float Plan

If you are going for just a few hours on your boat, let someone know where you expect to be and when you expect to return. If you plan a longer cruise, leave a copy of a written float plan with your marina, yacht club, or friend. You can generate a customized form using the web form here.

District 1 Events and Happenings (web log)

Activities and events throughout District 1 may be found here.

District 1 calendar

Activities and events throughout District 1 may be found here.

USPS squadrons & USPS districts

Many districts and squadrons have their own web sites. To visit any of these sites, and to learn more about the Power Squadron experience, use the links above.

Non-profit Organization sites

America's Waterway Watch

If you are a tow boat operator, a recreational boater, a fisherman, a marina operator, or otherwise live, work or engage in recreational activities around America's waterways, the United States Coast Guard wants your help in keeping these areas safe and secure. You can do this by participating in its America's Waterway Watch (AWW) program, a nationwide initiative similar to the well known and successful Neighborhood Watch program that asks community members to report suspicious activities to local law enforcement agencies.

Coastal Boating

Coastal Boating is the online resource for places to go and things to know about cruising in your northeast coastal waters. Coastal Boating promotes the joy of boating, sailing, kayaking, canoeing, and helps to get more people out on the water, and helps to transition people from day sailing to coastal cruising and racing. Provides the best all around experience for boaters who would like a local resource guide to cruising destinations, gear, and events that also covers local news, including race results, and seamanship skills. It's not to prepare people for the great offshore experience: there are plenty of resources for that. It's for all of the rest of us who may dream about a big adventure yet find ourselves perfectly content, if not driven, to experience the waters in our own territory to the fullest. It's about cruising, racing, or just plain boating for the joy of it.

Get Knotted!

Animated Knots for Scouts (and sailors) by 42nd Brighton (Saltdean) Scout Group, East Sussex, UK

MYSound

University of Connecticut Department of Marine Sciences, Monitoring Your Sound. MYSound provides comprehensive, real-time water quality, weather and wave data from Long Island Sound, its harbors and estuaries.

Sea Scouts, B.S.A. Home Page

What is Sea Scouting all about? Who can join? Is Sea Scouting co-ed? Find answers to your questions here.

Windjammer's Sailing Club

Continuously since 1943, Windjammers offers more sailing events on and off the water than any other organization in the Long Island area. What could be more fun than Thursday night racing -- get your friends and family together for an evening of casual racing from May to September. We also have an active group of cruising sailors who venture to coves and ports throughout the region all season long. And you won't want to miss the Race & Rendezvous -- a fun combination of racing, cruising, and celebrating summer!

WWW Tide and Current Predictor

Tabular display of two days' high and low tides, plus sunrise and sunset.

Government sites

Interactive Weather Info Network

Interactive Weather Information Network -- By the National Weather Service

Local Notice to Mariners

USCG Navigation Center

National Climate Data Center (NCDC)

The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) is the world's largest active archive of weather data. NCDC produces numerous climate publications and responds to data requests from all over the world.

NDBC Buoy Data Information

National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), a part of the National Weather Service (NWS). NDBC develops, operates, and maintains a network of buoy and C-MAN stations.

The National Weather Service

National Weather Service Home page. The starting point for official government weather forecasts, warnings, meteorological products for forecasting the weather, and information about meteorology.

Office of Coast Survey - NOAA's Experimental BookletChart™

The experimental BookletChart is made to help recreational boaters locate themselves on the water. It has been reduced in scale and divided into pages for convenience, but otherwise contains all the information of the full scale nautical chart. Bar scales have also been reduced in scale, and are accurate when used to measure distances in a BookletChart. Excerpts from the United States Coast Pilot are included, and chart notes are consolidated on a single page for easy reference. Emergency information for the charted area is printed on the back cover.

Office of Coast Survey - Home - Nautical Charts

Home page for nautical charts, Coast Pilot and Cooperative Charting Program-US Power Squadrons Input. The Office of Coast Survey (OCS) produces nautical charts for United States waters, including its possessions and territories. OCS is an office within the National Ocean Service, NOAA, a United States Government Agency.

Ocean Prediction Center (OPC)

OPC originates and issues marine warnings and forecasts, continually monitors and analyzes maritime data, and provides guidance of marine atmospheric variables for purposes of protection of life and property, safety at sea, and enhancement of economic opportunity.

Tides Online

The Tides Online page provides users with immediate graphical and tabular water level and meteorological data from NOS water level stations located along the projected path of severe storms such as hurricanes.

Commercial sites

Animated Knots by Grog

Animated Knot-Tying for boating, climbing, fishing, scouting, search and rescue, and arborists

Around The Buoys

The Branford River Racing Web Site:

• Informal racing Wednesday evenings May through August and Sunday afternoons September through October.
• For fun, crew training, and of a test of your boat against other boats of the same size and/or rating.
• Sail single-handed or with full crew and spinnaker - there will be other boats similar in size and crew for you to race.

Boating World News Online

Boating World online Boat Newspaper for Long Island, Westchester, Connecticut and Hudson River. Sail Boats, Yachts, fishing boats, nautical information, broker info and more.

BoatUS Hurricane Center

Your Home for Hurricane Tracking and Preparedness.

I Will Knot!

Step-by-step instructional video clips on how to tie various useful and popular knots.

Ken and Linda's Blog

Starting in April 2007, Ken and Linda Ripley, members of NHPS, will be traveling from Ft Myers, FL to Leetes Island, CT on the ICW in their new boat They have started a blog to record their journey. This is their first time traveling by boat for more than a few days; it should be a valuable learning experience.

Live Ships Map - AIS - Vessel Traffic and Positions

Vessel positions tracking based on AIS data. Real-time ship locations and port arrivals departures.

Maptech! NOAA Nautical Charts

Maptech NOAA Nautical Charts, GPS interface, USGS topographic maps. Electronic (digital) NOAA nautical charts for marine navigation with marine viewing and navigation software with GPS interface.

Marine Weather and WUI's Marine Forecast

Watch Hill, Rhode Island to Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, New Jersey and 20 NM offshore including Long Island Sound.

MMSI Registration for VHF/DSC

BoatUS MMSI registration web site, the easiest, fastest way to obtain an MMSI number and register your boat with the U.S. Coast Guard in case of an emergency.

New Haven, Connecticut WINDcast by Intellicast

Forecast winds for the New Haven, Connecticut area.

TheSailingChannel.TV

TSCtv is dedicated to cruising sailors around the world. Its productions cover the gear, the people, the boats, the skills, and the places that interest cruising sailors. TSCTV specializes in bringing professionally produced sailing documentaries, how-to programs, and boat show events to the global sailing community as High Quality Video Downloads and Interactve DVDs. Click Sailing Channel Theater for half-hour episodes of the TV show.

Soundbounder

Soundbounder: A Long Island Sound coastal access & exploration blog.

Wind Map - North East United States

Current weather observations and forecast. Providing near real time weather maps of wind strength and direction across the United States.

The Online Nautical Almanac

This service generates "Nautical Almanac" like daily pages. While not intended to substitute for the Nautical Almanac, this information is enough to do celestial navigation using the traditional methods.

Sea Tow

Sea Tow International Home Page - Free towing for members

TowBoatU.S. Long Island Sound

TowBoatU.S. Long Island Sound specializes in marine assistance, towing, salvage and recovery for recreational type vessels on the waters of and adjacent to Long Island Sound. We honor BoatU.S. memberships for towing service.

WindCheck

WindCheck - The Magazine for and by Long Island Sound Sailors

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