Skerry, my first Boat.

• Chesapeake Light Craft: Home of my Skerry's plans. They sell lots of kits / plans.
• Arwen Marine, A French company. There are some really good building photos.
• Article in Amateur Boatbuilding written by John Harris, the Skerry designer.
• You tube video of a skerry. While I was building my Skerry, I used to go to that video when I got discouraged.
• Duckworks article on Skerry sailing
• CLC Skerry build, fast forward video of a Skerry build

Tanzer 22 My Next Challenge.

• Tanzer 22 Class Association
• Michael Goudeseune's Web site. Some nice articles about maintenance and projects. Also has links.
• Tanzer Boat Parts supplies Tanzer parts and has articles and a very nice collection of links about Tanzers and various home pages.
• Tanzer 22 Dimensions and Sail Area
• Pierre Marois rebuilds and sails his Tanzer 22
• Course a Voile a Montreal
• Tanzer 22 "BRIJAN" is used for racing.
• Article in "The Practical Sailor" about Tanzer 22
• Help in choosing rigging parts from WindJammer sails
• Tanzer 22 photos, heavily modified top.

PDRacers a boat that doesn't take itself seriously, My second boat

• Official PDRacer site
• PDR Info from Peter Hyndman
• Fun article in Duckworks Magazine. A bit US centric but still worth the read.
• Wikipedia Entry for the Puddle Duck Racer
• Great Article on building a Puddle Duck Racer from Polysail
• Photos and build essay #56
• Friends of Yellow creek, page on PDR with lots of photos.
• Puddle Duck Racer Yahoo Group is lively!
• Making a Puddle Duck Racer hull #231
• Lots of YouTube Video of PDRs

Achors and Anchoring

• My Anchor Page
• Anchoring basics from the Ottawa River Sailing Page of Sailquest.com
• CruiserNews.net Lots of links related to anchors and anchoring.
• Anchor testing from US Sailing.org
• Set an anchor for a Blow Pangolin.co.nz
• Anchoring and Anchorages Callypgia, Lots of good information from cruising boat.
• Set an anchor for a Blow Pangolin.co.nz
• Noonsite.com Make sure your anchor is set
• Kingston Anchors Anchors and anchor rollers, lots of information
• Rocna Anchors Very successful newfangled anchors
• Anchor Right Sarca anchors (sand and rock anchors)
• Choosing an Anchor Bluemoment.com
• Sea Anchors and Drogues Big Ideas sea achors

Clubs and Sailing

• Lake Ontario Sailing
• Skipper Tips has lots of ... Tip about sailing and keeping your sailboat running.

Proas: Looks like alot of fun sailing one of these.

• Proa file.com
• Gary Dierking's pages

Sails

• Calculator for triangles. Useful for designing a sail
• Sailrite sells kits for dacron sails and other supplies
• SAIL Kits for poly tarp sails, Polysail
• Tyvek sail
• Messing About has lots of good pages and info
• Wikipedia article on Junk Rig
• Lug Sail Article from Amateur boatbuilding
• Junk Sail Tutorial

Rigging

• A step by step record of rigging the OZ PDRacer but is useful for some tips about setting up any sprit rig for efficiency.

Nautical Words now integrated in Every Day Language.

• From See the Sea.

Iain Oughtred's Ness Yawl, Maybe my third build?

• Iain Oughtred's own boat.
• Building Goldenberry, the Ness Yawl
• Sailing New England Ness Yawl build

Assorted boat Sites.

• Extra, Eye Candy. Where people send in their pictures. A great place to go wandering for a feel good boat extravaganza!
• An Italian chap designs and builds a sailboat. Fun reading
• Boat Building, Design and repair
• Chuck Merrell's Apple Pie free plans. I built it as a tender and I love it
• diy-wood-boat Lots of articles and assorted links and information, worth a visit.
• diy-wood-boat Currachs and Currach building. These are Irish boats of great antiquity. Original ones were covered in skins. Canvas now is used. Lots of photos of building and rowing Currachs.

Plans, Suppliers

• Michael Storer's boat plan and info page
• Duckworks Boat Builders supply: Supplies in the U.S., Lots of articles and links.
• Tech support site for plans from bateau.com
• Marlow Ropes in UK
• Smithsonian has boat plans
• Woodenwidget.com has plans for tiny extra light boats. Some are folding.
• Boatbuilding free boat plans
• Simplicity Boats Lots of handy info for home builders including kits and plans, supplies, reference.
• Wooden Boat Fittings in Australia
• Platypus boat in Oregon, They have Pelican Kits for DIY, wooden cleats and other resources.

I'm not sure how to describe these

• This has very interesting info on boat design including various calculators such as stability, hull speed, comfort. Boat design page. There is lots more on the web site and is worth a wander.
• A short article on Galvanic Corrosion and how to protect from it.
• Online Sailing Simulator The game is fun and occurs in a few places online. The rest of the website is fun.
• This is a simple explanation of Binoculars
• Very interesting electric boat motor Electric paddle designed specifically for portable boats, canoes, kayaks and tenders. 16 pounds including battery.
• One Sheet Sampan boat
• Copper Corrosion Protection and Resistance for boat fittings
• A pdf file of a trip in sail boat, Greek seas
• Thorne's Chamberlain Dory Skiff

Knots and Ropework

• Have fun exploring the Frayed Knot Arts website.
• Amazing knot visualizations
• Animated Knots by Grog, How to tie knots and their uses
• Ropers Knot page
• Sacramento Delta Boating page of knots
• Tollesbury's animated knot page. I liked the one of the splice in particular
• Great knotting resource, a bit out of date but well worth the wander
• When I was a lass we used to braid using old dynamite wire. We would pull out the wire and be left with the yellow and red sheething. This site uses plastic string but its the same skills.
• Cats cradle and others.International String Figure Association
• Sword Knots Useful if you want to be an old fashioned pirate.
• Celtic Knotwork Instructions on how to draw them.
• More Celtic knots inages and software.
• Paper knotting Origami with an attitude.
• Braiding supplies, They sell for horse equipment but transfers to other uses.
• Andy's world of knots. Marine applications nice animated knots
• The Rope People
• Martin Comb's knots
• Folsoms Well done page with lots of links
• Knot shaped jewelry tutorial page.
• The following KNOT link came to me from a teacher who uses my web site. One of her kids had found the link and she graciously submitted it. It came from a DATING SITE. Each knot link referenced another site which I link to here. The original dating site (with a sense of humour ) Knot page was http://www.datehookup.com/content-tying-the-knot.htm
• Nice animated knots from Pro Knot. They offer nifty reference card of knots.

Viking Ships

• Oseberg Viking Ship Building a full scale replica.
• Hurstwick
• viking Ship Construction, Regia Anglorum
• Danish Viking Ships
• Sea Stallion From Glendalough
• Sea Stallion From Glendalough on youtube
• Viking Ship Museum, Oslo
• Lore and Saga
• Gaia viking voyage 2005 on Youtube
• Lofotr Viking Ship on Youtube