The Web offers a rich set of resources for the Bay sailor. This list
is only a sampling of the hundreds of interesting and valuable sites available.
Catalina Yacht and Club Sites
Navigation Information
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Print Your Own Nautical
Chart Booklets - NOAA Office of Coast Survey system of PDF's to print
your own map booklet at home. Makes a booklet on letter-sized paper for each
NOAA nautical chart. Try it! |
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Heights of Bay Bridge spans - this was supplied by another club and we
cannot verify the numbers. BE CAREFUL! |
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NOAA
Charts with Google Satellite Photos superimposed---very cool---thanks to
David Pierson! Tips:
- Drag the map with your mouse to move around, and change zoom level
by rolling your mouse wheel
- Switch between satellite photo and NOAA chart by clicking on the
"NOAA" button in upper right corner
- You can change the starting
location by modifying the web address in the address box of your browser
(lat, lon, and zoom level) and then save the result as a
"Favorite" (or "Link" or "Bookmark")
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NOAA
Coast Survey Charts
- raster-scanned actual US nautical
charts--all of them--on an official NOAA web site! |
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Local Notices to
Mariners for USCG District 5 (includes Chesapeake Bay). These are no
longer published on paper. |
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NOS Chart
Update Notices - changes since the latest charts were published
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Coast
Guard Light List - the official USCG light list for the entire United
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Weather Forecasts and Observations
Note: The National
Weather Service has made the "top-level" navigation of their site into clickable
maps---click right on the map to get the forecast for that location, including
marine forecasts. A wide variety of other information is available from links on
these pages---almost everything on page is an active link.
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National Weather Service Home
Page - click on the map to see land forecasts marine forecasts, and radar throughout the
U.S. |
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NOAA
NowCOAST - an interactive mapping site to view satellite, radar, and
measurement data all on one map. Takes some experimentation to fully benefit
from it
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NWS
Baltimore-Washington Forecast Office Home Page - covers the Maryland Bay
Marine forecasts and land forecasts for the west shore south to the Potomac River
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NWS
Wakefield Virginia Forecast Office Home Page - covers the lower Bay
Marine forecasts and land forecasts south of the Potomac River (both shores)
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NWS
Mt. Holly New Jersey Forecast Office Home Page - covers the Delaware Bay
Marine forecasts and the eastern shore forecasts for the Northern Chesapeake
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Chesapeake Bay
Marine Forecast, Maryland Portion - click on the map for the marine forecast
of your choice
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Chesapeake
Bay Marine Forecast, Virginia Portion - a composite text forecast for the
lower Bay and adjacent coastal waters |
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Belcak Weather Station - Great weather
composite information from Rock Hall, including WIND |
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NEW!
Foot's
Forecast - A new and irreverent site devoted to major storms in the
mid-Atlantic region. Humorous, and lots of weather links, including
lightning strikes! |
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Sea Nettle Forecast Map
- Believe it or not, a NOAA forecast of where the jellyfish are, updated
often
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National Hurricane
Center -
for full tropical storm status and forecasts |
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Storm
Prediction Center
- what areas of the country are forecast to have severe weather today
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Thomas Point Light
Current Observation - actual observed wind data |
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Chesapeake Bay Interpretive
Buoy System - all kinds of data from three "smart" NOAA buoys recently
installed around the Bay
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Chesapeake Bay Observing System
- real-time data around the Bay
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www.weather.com - the
Weather Channel, an excellent weather resource
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NOAA Weather Radar
The four NWS radars that
cover the Chesapeake and the Delaware Bays are listed below. Most TV and
Internet radar
coverage is actually sourced from them. Moving
radar is available from these sites by clicking "Loop" on the left-hand side.
This will require Java on your computer, available as a free
download from
Sun Microsystems.
TV Station Weather Radar
There are a few
privately-owned radars that cover the Chesapeake and the Delaware Bays:
Tide and Current Calculations
All can be set to forecast any future date...
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