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The association encourages, trains, and supports women who sail or want to sail. Their workshops and seminars cover sailing technique, navigation, diesel engine maintenance, and other topics. It also organizes membership cruises.
[National Women's Sailing Association, Portsmouth, RI, USA]
Selection of videos from various sources teaching piloting, rules of the road, and related subjects Some of them are also available on DVD.
[Magic Lamp Productions, Venice, CA, USA]
The school offers classroom, home study, and on-line training courses and sales of navigation software, celestial navigation calculators, work forms, starfinders, and other tools.,
[Starpath School of Navigation, Seattle, WA, USA]
Ockam U manual teaches the concepts of wind sheer and gradient, polar plots, target boatspeed, and "the Wally" to choose the best heading over a given course. Must-have information for serious racers, but may be useful or satisfying for cruisers who care about speed or former racers who still have that urge to tweak the boat.
[Ockam Instruments. Inc., Milford, CT, USA]
Wide range of sailing instruction, including on-the-water sailing and offshore cruising classes. Courses include Coastal Navigation, Marine Weather, Offshore Navigation (Celestial and GPS) and Radar for Yachtsmen.
[School of Sailing & Seamanship, Newport Beach, CA, USA]
Selection of videos includes Using Marine Electronics, GPS Navigation, Guide to Electronic Charting, and Mastering Marine Radar.
[Magic Lamp Productions, Venice, CA, USA]
Sailing instruction, including courses on basic and advanced coastal, offshore, passagemaking, coastal and celestial navigation, radar, bareboat chartering, multihull sailing, SSB, and night sailing, Also gives classes on diesel repair, electrical systems, cooking at sea and other technical topics. Their affiliated club rents cruising boats to members by the day and organizes instructional cruises in Greece, Tonga, et al.
[Modern Sailing Academy, Sausalito, CA, USA]
Extensive list with good search facility. Covers just about any cruising topic. Tree and branch format for threads.
[The Sailing Company, Middletown, RI, USA]
Unmoderated forum on sail and power cruising. Lots of good advice and other resources, but you have to do some searching.
[Usenet, USA]
Unmoderated forum on various sailing topics. Some useful cruising information here, but you need to dig and you need to be selective..
[Usenet, USA]
Different skills are required for electronic charting and for paper plotting - don′t dismiss either set of skills.
Daniel Piltch
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