Other Ocean Youth Trust organisations :OYT North East OYT East OYT Scotland OYT Ireland OYT South WeatherAt sea everything is influenced by the weather - so sailors are obsessed by weather forecasts ! Some useful (and free) sources of met. data. (We don't promise that they work or are accurate !). Please at least check their date stamp before using them. Also, note that many have the same source and so are not independent predictions. Good collection of detailed planning charts Another good collection of planning charts Ant Veal's UK Weather Centre Great place for comprehensive weather info Current and predicted UK met office synoptics Skipper - try this first Current and predicted UK met office synoptics Same as above - smaller images & different server Theyr.net Excellent european-wide three day comprehensive forecast centre. Current UK met office synoptic Inshore waters Forecast The Shipping Forecast Frank Singleton's Weather Site A great sailing weather site with links to many sources of weather information. Three day surface pressure animation Useful summary from the UK met office. Online Weather Site Weather Online ! Sailing - some general sailing links.The Caernarfon harbour site contains useful information including the latest positions of the buoys on the bar - so one less excuse for not going into the straits this way. Liverpool Yacht Club The local club in GMC's home port. Keelboat sailing on the Mersey straight from the city centre all year round. Norfolk Boat The Norfolk Boat offer funds to young people from all walks of life to help them afford to sail on any sea going boats run by approved sail training organisations, including the Ocean Youth Trust. ASTO- - The Association of Sea Training Organisations - is an "umbrella" association which exists to represent the major sail training schemes in Great Britain. Dave Beavan, an OYT skipper and expert gaffer, is running sailkenya which offers unique holidays in Kenya aboard a traditional swahili dhow. The company aims to work in an ethical way and by using a local dhow and a local skipper, your money is spent in the local economy, not on imported goods and labour. Secondly, by exploiting the reef for tourism, sailkenya compensate for the loss of fishing rights and help to conserve the unique marine biodiversity of the Kenyan coast. North West Venturers Yacht Club is a cruising club active over much of the Irish sea and based in the Menai Straits. They produce the definitive pilot to the N. Wales and Anglesey coast and their site contains some good links of its own. RYA The Royal Yachting Association. RNLI The The Royal National Lifeboat Institution saves lives at sea. |
