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Last Update: 4/23/2011 - HIT YOUR REFRESH BUTTON TO UPDATE YOUR VIEW OF THIS PAGE On This Page: Army Corps of Engineers - Main Site: www.usace.army.mil - Army Corps of Engineers - Jacksonville District http://www.sfwmd.gov/lo_statustrends/lo_index.html - Florida Okeechobee Waterway & Lock Information The Canadian Coast Guard Home Page: www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/ Consumer Information Center - Govt Printing Office: www.pueblos.gsa.gov - free catalog, free & low cost govt pubs on everything Dismal Swamp Welcome Center: www.icw-net.com/dscwelcom - East coast. State of the Canal, lock schedules, dockage and local weather. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Home Page: www.fcc.gov/ Florida State University - Dry Tortugas Reserve: http://fpac.fsu.edu/torgugas - Details on the development of the ecological reserve in the Tortugas. Great Circle Calculator: http://www.greatloop.com/ - Calculates the shortest distance between two points using Great Circle Calculations Great Lakes Water Levels: www.lre.usace.army.mil/ - Great Lakes Boaters know that charts are referenced to a datum, which changes from month to month and year to year. This gives those lake levels - if you're there you can also call the Coast Guard to find current levels + or - from datum. Hudson River Valley: www.HVNet.com - online resource about info on Hudson River Valley and marinas between Yonkers & Troy Dam. Interactive map. Info on marinas, restaurants, historic sites, etc Joe Mehaffey: www.joe.mehaffey.com - Joe Mehaffey and Jack Yeazel's GPS info website. Useful info about GPS including a lot on Garmin handhelds. Local Notice to Mariners: www.navcen.uscg.mil/lnm/default.htm *Managing the waterway: www.managingthewaterway.com - Waterway Cruising Guides, and Electronic Charts for the entire U.S. at affordable prices. *Mapfinder (NOS): www.mapfinder.nos.noaa.gov - Complex interface, but can download low resolution (85 dpi) versions of NOAA charts, aerial photos and more. Maptech: www.maptech.com/mapserver - Maptech's mapserver. Access to charts, topos, aerial photography and more. Marine Planner: www.marineplanner.com - Full catalogue of viewable and printable SoftCharts, weather, route making and more. Now has charts for your PDA. National Imagery & Mapping agency (NIMA) - US Defense Mapping Agency: www.nima.mil main website - the navigation/maritime safety pages has online versions of American Practical Navigator (Bowditch) and other pubs like Chart No 1, pilot charts and light lists, as well as notice to mariners. - http://164.214.12.145/asam/asam_j_query.html - Database for anti-shipping activity (piracy) National Marine Fisheries Service: www.nmfs.noaa.gov - Fish, fisheries & other marine life. Downloads of whale songs. National Marine Sanctuaries - NOAA - www.sanctuaries.nos.noaa.gov - All the marine sanctuaries in the country National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association: http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov NOAA Charts. Digital & printed. Cooperative effort with Maptech ( www.maptech.com ) for the digital raster charts including online updates. Navionics: www.navionics.com - Charts, 800-848-5896 *NOAA-United States Coast Pilot: http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/nsd/cpdownload.htm - All nine volumes of the US Coast pilot - entire US coastline - Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Great Lakes, Lower Mississippi, Hawaii, Alaska, US Pacific Islands. NOAA Epirb Registration: www.sarsat.noaa.gov - 888-212-7283. Online forms for registering your 406 MHz EPIRB. Must be renewed every two years. NOAA Office of Coast Survey: www.chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov - Info on ordering charts, Chart No 1 and many historical charts downloadable. NOAA "Booklet Charts": http://ocsdata.ncd.noaa.gov/bookletchart - (2009) printable letter sized page booklet Raster Navigation (RNC) charts. NOS Mapfinder: www.mapfinder.nos.noaa.gov - Complex interface, but can download low-resolution (85dpi) versions of NOAA charts, aerial photos, and more. Panama Canal: www.pancanal.com - Info on the canal, including regulations and fees. Panama Canal History: http://www.breezes.com/world-history-the-panama-canal.php - (Apr 2011), nice resource on the history of the canal (Thanks Sarah, for the link!) PORTS: http://www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/ports.html - NOAA site. 51 Great Lakes real time water level monitors. Plus sites all over the country -185 in 2002, incl Tampa Bay, Narrangansett By, NY-NJ, Delaware River, Chesapeake Bay, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston/Galveston. Soon are Anchorage AK, Tacoma WA and Gulf of Mexico. Reed's Nautical Almanac: www.reedsalmanac.com - Extensive link lists, cruising guide lists, free tide charts and more TerraServer: http://terraserver.microsoft.com - This is a Great navigation site! It lets you view or printout satellite/aerial views of VERY small areas such as an inlet or harbor, with as much as 3 meter resolution. You have to keep "zeroing in" on the area you want so it's a little klutzy, but once you get there you get a really nice view of the area. We use this to look for channels and shoals in uncharted waters (clear water of course). We print out a copy of some of the places we go and use them in conjunction with the proper charts to get a better feel for the water. You can get a shot of your home this way too! United States Coast Guard: http://www.uscg.mil/USCG.shtm main home page United States Coast Guard: http://www.uscg.mil/stcw/index.htm - The CG licensing info and forms USCG Navigation Center: www.navcen.uscg.gov - USCG office that maintains GOS, DGPS and loran. Lots of communication information, local notices to mariners and more. Notices to Mariners: www.navcen.uscg.gov/lnm/default.htm - this is the page for Local Notice to Mariners updates. USCG Nav Center: www.navcen.uscg.gov/marcomms/watch.htm - Radio Watchkeeping Requirements *USCG Navigational Publications: 164.214.12.145/pubs/ - Digital navigation publications. Free downloads of the USCG light list, site reduction tables, pilot charts and others. USCG Office of Marine Safety: www.uscgboating.org - Regulations, publications and more. University of Texas GPS Tutorial: www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/gcraft/notes/gps/gps.html Everything you want to know about GPS US Code title 33 - Navigation Laws: www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/33/index.htm - This gets you to the source of the navigational laws and rules of the road. US Customs: www.customs.gov - Notice to Masters of Vessels (penalties for violating customs) US Maritime Administration (MARAD): www.marad.dot.gov/ - advice to mostly merchant ships, useful to cruisers, regarding shipping topics including piracy. US Naval Observatory GPS Info: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil GPS specifications & information page Vessel Documentation Name Lookup - NOAA - http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/st1/CoastGuard/index.html Waterway Guide Southern Edition Area Information - www.eschamber.com Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Home Page: www.whoi.edu/ GO BACK TO THE TOP OF THE PAGE, INLAND WATERWAYS: - roughly 6000 miles of inland waterways & canals
Inland Lake & Rivers Guide - State by State -
http://www.boatingamerica.com/states.htm
Allegheny River - PA - 70 miles
Great Lakes Seaway - including the Welland Canal:
http://www.greatlakes-seaway.com
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New York State Canal System: Cumberland River - 300 miles
Tennessee River - Tombigbee Waterway - AL,MS,TN: -
850 miles Alabama River - AL: - 290 miles Black Warrior River - AL - 180 miles INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY (ICW)
Snowbirders Guide to the Atlantic Intracoastal waterway -
Video -
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8052773666725310618 RIDEAU CANAL - Canada
Rideau Canal Information -
http://www.rideau-info.com/ RICHELIEU CANAL - Canada
Wikepedia Richelieu River Information -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richelieu_River TRENT SEVERN CANAL - Canada
Trent Severn Waterway Information -
http://www.trentonontario.com/trentsevern.html |
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T. Absten, Marathon. - A Boater's Guide to the Florida Keys & Cuba |