The Voyage to Nowhere

Internet Links For This Section

• Heavy weather sailing articles - articles about sailing, including in heavy weather
• Pictures of heavy weather - pilot boats sailing through heavy weather
• Heavy Weather Sailing - the well-read book originally by K. Adlard Coles, now by Peter Bruce (Amazon site)
• Sailing in heavy weather - basic information about sailing in heavy weather
• Sailing through a "white squall" - interesting article about a particular type of heavy weather (in this case, on the Great Lakes)
• Rogue waves - interesting but technical article
• Rogue waves - another interesting technical article
• Rogue wave prevalence - recently updated information, from USA Today article
• Abandoning ship and using a life raft - from Steve Dashew's site
• Life raft and safety information - mostly regulatory information
• Offshore racing requirements - detailed description of equipment and boat characteristics required for ocean cruising/racing, many items are safety-related
• Ocean weather systems - extract from American Practical Navigator
• June Pilot Chart for South Pacific Ocean - from U.S. Government site
• The Truth About Cruising - frank article about the downsides of cruising (including bad weather), by Tor Pinney
• Alpha autopilots - company site (they made the autopilot used on Nine of Cups)
• Self-steering techniques - collection of links that describe methods of self-steering
• Self-steering - information about wind vanes from a commercial site
• Weather fax - large site with lots of information
• JVCOMM weather fax - information about a popular Windows-based weather fax program
• Marine weather fax - what kind of weather fax charts are available, from NOAA site
• Beaufort wind scale - basic information from Wikipedia
• Beaufort wind scale - extract from American Practical Navigator, has pictures of typical sea conditions
• Garbage regulations for boaters - information from Coast Guard safety site
• Fireball meteors - FAQ from astronomy organization
• Fireball meteors - basic information from Sky & Telescope site
• Zodiacal light - interesting article explaining what causes zodiacal light
• Magellanic clouds - article with pictures from Wikipedia
• Magellanic clouds - another interesting article
• Juan Fernández Archipelago - nice set of pictures from travel site
• Juan Fernández Archipelago - basic information from Chilean travel site
• Juan Fernández Archipelago - another site with basic information
• Alexander Selkirk - article about the man who was the model for Robinson Crusoe
• Robinson Crusoe - online text for the book by Daniel Defoe