nautical knowledge
- Questions for young officers as
(PDF file)
- General principles of working a ship (circa 1814) as (PDF file)
- Hints on crewing a square rigger
- Beauforts original wind scale as (PDF file)
- Glossary of nautical terms (circa. 1814) as (PDF file)
- The Martime History Virtual Archives
- Jottings on Celestial and Great Circle Navigation
- General principles of working a ship (circa 1814) as (PDF file)
Historically Interesting
Rescue and Safe Boating
- Australian Marine Safety Authority
- Australian Marine Safety Authority - Marine Orders
- National Standards for Commercial Vessels (Australia)
- NSW Roads & Marine Services (Australia)
- Royal New Zealand Coastguard Federation
- Royal National Life Boat Institution
- US Coast Guard Auxiliary
- US Coast Guard Safe Boating Page
GPS and Navigation
- GPS Overview from the University of Texas
- Sam's GPS Resources
- NMEA-0183 and GPS Information
- Good Tutorial on RADAR and how it works
- World Time Server
- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Lots of publications available including Bowditch and sight reduction tables
- Time and Navigation - Smithsonian Institute
Weather Web Sites
- Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
- Weather for NSW (Australia)
- Weather Radar Images (Australia)
- Ocean Temperature and Current Forcasts
- University of Hawaii Weather Server
- European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
- Wave height predictions using WW3 (was WAM) model (US Navy)
- Charles Sturt University Weather Page (Australia)
- Realtime Wave Heights in NSW (Australia) provided by Manly Hydraulics Laboratory
- Wave, Wind and Tides (NSW, Australia) from Sydney Ports
- Wave, Wind and Tide Graphs for Australia by SeaBreeze
Tides (Australia)
Sailing
- Mark Rosenstein's Sailing Page - lots of links
- Cruising Yacht Club of Australia - Home of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
Software
- xephem - X windows ephemeride program (with source)
- High Precision Ephemerides - Lots of pointers to software sites
- phoonclock - X windows source, gives phase of the moon and sun shadows
- XTide - Harmonic tide clock and tide predictor
- GMT - Generic Mapping Tools
Other Sites
- Australian National Maritime Museum
- Australian Oceanographic Data Centre
- CSIRO Marine Research (Australia)
- Australian Hydrographic Office
- Sydney Heritage Fleet
- National Ocean Data Centre (US)
- The U.S. Naval Observatory
- Astronomical Applications Department (USNO) - Generate Astronomical Data
- IMO (International Maritime Organisation)
Please address comments to John Holden at:- johnh@psych.usyd.edu.au
