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Tide, Weather and Navigation Links

Amateur Radio

http://winlink.org/ Winlink 2000 Utilizes enabling technologies and sound operating practices to provide a full-featured radio digital message transfer system, worldwide. Email transfer with attachments, map & text-based position reporting, graphic & text-based weather bulletin services, and emergency communications are now available to the Amateur radio community by linking radio to the Internet.

Tides

http://www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/ Tides Online: Offering near real-time tidal and storm surge water level observation data and plots.

http://www.maineharbors.com/ Tides and weather for the New England Coast

http://www.buzzardsbayboater.com/ Information about the Buzzards Bay area

Weather

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/home.htm

Straight from the horse's mouth, covering all of US coasts and Great Lakes. Includes near-shore, offshore, weather charts, and more.

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/Map/wrldmap.shtml

The index map of worldwide weather buoys, giving up-to-the-hour wind, weather, and wave data, and hourly reports of last 24 hours. Now you can watch the "perfect storm" in real time on the buoys! Fantastic site.

http://www.noaa.gov

NOAA's home page, with access to weather, environmental, and other info.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov

NWS, coastal & continental U.S.

http://weather.noaa.gov

Gulf Stream & Oceanic Information

http://www.erols.com/gulfstrm

The site of "Gulf Stream Guru" Jenifer Clark. Here you can order Gulf Stream charts and other services she provides.

http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/avhrr/

Excellent site by Johns Hopkins University. High resolution, realtime, false color NOAA polar orbiting infrared satellite images covering the entire East Coast and Gulf of Mexico. Also 3 and 7 day composites available, archive available for at least 3 months.

http://marine.rutgers.edu/mrs/

Another excellent site, from Rutgers University. realtime false color imagery covering large areas and covering 3 degree squares, too. Also visible data and drifting buoy tracks. You can determine drifter velocities by computing distance divided by time. This is particularly useful information if the buoy is in an eddy or in the Gulf Stream.

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/Maps/rmd.shtml