Weather and Routing Information - resources for cruising sailors

WXMate

[Vendor]

Manufacturer WXMate

Real-time weather information (radar, surface analysis, buoy data, etc.) on your smartphone, PDA, laptop or other portable device.

[Bass Products, LLC, Bristol, CT, USA]
- The WXMate weather info receiver and software.

It′s all here on the excellent NWS home page: links to text forecasts, weather charts, hurricane forecasts, and much more for U.S. coastal and offshore waters. Also information on all the different ways to get weather data and forecasts when you don′t have web access.

[NOAA, USA]
- See the NWS weather charts

Hi-Fax radio facsimile

[Vendor]

Dedicated to the principal that reception of radio fax, wefax, press fax, photo fax and amateur SSTV radio stations is child?s play. Points out inexpensive software such as WXSat and JVComm32 for sound cards, or JVFAX with a simple converter, for connection to a SSB radio receiver.

[Marius Rensen, Hannover, Germany]
- Hi-Fax importer's website

Furuno Weather Fax and Navtex receivers

[Vendor]

Manufacturer Furuno Weather Fax and Navtex receivers

Integrated chart plotter, GPS, radar and other instruments using an Ethernet network.

[Furuno Electric Co. Ltd., Nishinomiya, Japan]
- Furuno weather fax
- Furuno's home page
- Worldwide Furuno dealers
- U.S. Furuno distributors' website
- A product evaluation

Commanders' Weather custom forecasts

[Vendor]

Service provider

Provides detailed marine weather forecasts with specialized routing for all types of yachts anywhere in the world. Their meteorologists will discuss and prepare your weather forecast for your specific route, then monitor progress daily.

[Commanders' Weather Corporation, Nashua, NH, USA]
- The weather routing service
- An offline product review

Locus Weather routing and forecasting

[Vendor]

Service provider

Bespoke forecast information for all types of ocean voyages. There are several different levels of service available depending on the nature of the voyage,

[Locus Weather, Camden, ME, USA]
- The Locus Weather routing service
- An offline product review

JVComm32

[Vendor]

Manufacturer

PC software for the reception of HF-FAX weather charts, weather images from low earth orbiting satellites. Runs under for Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT 4.0 and XP.

[Eberhard Backeshoff, Mettmann, Germany]
- The JVComm32 software

Sailflow

[Vendor]

Service provider

Point and click on a map to get current and forecast wind direction and strength. Tidal currents,

[Weatherflow, Inc., Scotts Valley,, CA, USA]
- Sailflow wind maps and graphs

Buoy Weather

[Vendor]

Service provider

Offers 30 weather products for any point on earth via e-mail. Basic data and 7-day forecasts are free. Wave height, wave direction, wind speed, wind direction and period are modeled, even for remote areas. More sophisticated forecasts have a fee.

[Waterman Weather, USA]
- The Buoy Weather products