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Reference for captains

 

Knowledge sharing, blogs, personal experiences, ...

Meteo, navigation, etc...

  

 

 

A collection of books and magazines on dredging and shipping: click here

 

Captain's hard disk

DYNAMIC POSITIONING 

Intro in DP/DT                                                                 http://www.imca-int.com/divisions/marine/reference/intro01.html

 

MARITIME LAW 

Code of Federal Regulations (U.S.A.)                                                   http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&tpl=%2Findex.tpl

IMO resolutions                                                                                    http://www.imo.org/InfoResource/mainframe.asp?topic_id=435

IMO Info (ISPS, accidents, ...)                                    http://gisis.imo.org/Public/

 

METEO

European severe weather guide                                                             http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/port_studies/medports/index.html

Typhoon Havens handbook W.Pacific                                                    http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/port_studies/thh-nc/0start.htm

Hurricane Havens handbook N.Atlant.                                                     http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/port_studies/tr8203nc/0start.htm

Forecaster handbooks # regions                                                             http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/pubs/fleet.html#forecaster 

Mariner's guide for Hurricane Awareness in the North Atlantic - NOAA    Download 1Mb

Robin Storm, meteo blog                                                                      http://robinstorm.blogspot.com/    

 

SHIPHANDLING

Master's guide to berthing                                            http://www.standard-club.com/content/PU-MG-Berthing.aspx

Master's guide to container securing                             http://www.standard-club.com/content/PU-MG-ContainerSecuring.aspx

Handbook containers                                                    http://www.containerhandbuch.de/

 

SAFETY

MCGA - Leading for safety                                            http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/leading-for-safety.pdf

Code of Safe Working Practice for Merchant Seamen   http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/coswop-2.pdf

Gard - Guidance to masters                                           www.gard.no/pages/GardNO/Publications/Guidances/GuidanceToMastersHome

 

MEDICAL

Ship's captain medical guide                                        http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mcga07-home/workingatsea/mcga-medicalcertandadvice/mcga-dqs_st_shs_ships_capt_medical_guide.htm

The Merck manual online                                             http://www.merck.com/mmhe/index.html

Reanimation, newest techniques                                  http://www.erc.edu/

Institute for Tropical Medecine - Antwerp                     http://www.itg.be/itg/

 

NAVIGATION

British Admiralty - Notices to Mariners                           http://www.nmwebsearch.com/

British Admiralty - Easytide (online tide software)         http://www.easytide.com/EasyTide/EasyTide/index.aspx

 World VTS Guide                                             http://www.worldvtsguide.org/

 

TECHNICAL

Technical dictionary                                   http://www.waterdictionary.info/

Maritime knowledge, blogs, etc...

The Nautical Institute

Maritime & Coastgard Agency UK

Capt. Woinin's professional experiences

Gcaptain blog, news, e.o.

Centre for tankship excellence

Chilling facts about newbuilding, design and maintenance of VLCC's.

 

 

Merchant navy blog

Maritime accidents blog (first class site by Bob Couttie)

Intro on squat, by Dr. Barrass, essential !

Manu's scripts: blog by an "old salt", straight talk !

Messing about in ships, blog

www.nautinst.org/

 

 

 

www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mcga-home

 

 

 

http://users.skynet.be/p.woinin/

 

gcaptain.com

 

 

www.c4tx.org/

    

  

 

     

merchantnavyatyahoogroups.blogspot.com

 

 

   

  

www.maritimeaccident.org/      

    

 

http://www.ship-squat.com/

http://oldsaltshaker.blogspot.com

http://messingaboutinships.com/

 

 

 

"There is nothing -absolutely nothing- half so much worth doing as messing about in ships."

 

 

Software

CNav                   (all-in-one navigation, freeware)

GRIB-file reader (best choice, if you have internet-access onboard, freeware)

Weatherfax software (shareware, but demo is fully functional)

Google Earth (a piece of kit with many possibilities: we already used Google Earth for weather forecasting and ... port entry.)

Google Earth plugins 

 

HTTrack: downloads complete websites

Worldwide live ship's positions (AIS)

www.hydro.nl/pgS/en/cnav_en.htm

http://www.grib.us/

 

http://www.jvcomm.de/

  

 

http://earth.google.com/

 

http://www.justmagic.com/GM-GE.html

http://www.gearthhacks.com/downloads/

http://www.httrack.com/

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?level0=100

 

Partner links

 

Baggerwereld (Dutch site)

Rony Lanssiers

Pierre Deseck

Pinoy maritime blog

 

IMC shipbrokers (towage, heavy lift, consultancy...)

Seatools

Dredgesource

Leon van Duivendijk

The port of Antwerp in pictures

Navingo

Martin's seafarer page

 

SHIPPING PORTALS

 http://bowsprite.wordpress.com/

 A sketckbook by an "armchair admirer and harbor drifter" with a clear passion for ships.

  

 

http://www.baggerwereld.com

http://www.lanssiers.be

http://www.maritimeknowhow.com/

http://www.pinoymaritime.com/blog

http://www.imcbrokers.com/ 

http://www.seatools.net/

http://www.dredgesource.com/

http://www.duivendijk.net/

http://www.dockwork.be

http://dredging.navingo.nl/

http://dieselduck.net/seafarer/

 

 

http://scheepvaart.startbewijs.nl/

http://scheepvaart.linkvinden.nl

http://www.scheepvaart.startkabel.nl

http://scheepvaart.pagina.nl

 

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