Diapensia's 2003 Newfoundland Voyage

Web Sites of Interest

Mariner's Information:

• Marine Services On-Line, Canadian Government -- with links to weather, navigation, etc...
  • Canadian Hydrographic Service Charts!
  • Newfoundland Weather, Canadian Weather Office
  • Atlantic Marine Forecasts, Canadian Weather Office
  • Canada Coast Guard
  • Collision Regulations, Canadian Coast Guard
• International Ice Patrol
• Canadian Ice Service
• Introductory Info extracted from Alexander Weld's Cruising Guide to Newfoundland
• WWW Tide and Current Predictions
  • St. John's
  • St. Pierre
  • Sydney
  • Halifax
  • Other sites in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia (and elsewhere!)
  • Kittery Point, Portsmouth Harbor

Magazine Articles:

• Behind the Bras d'Or in Cruising World Magazine
• Overcoming Your Offshore Fears from SailNet.com
• Circumnavigating Newfoundland in Ocean Navigator Magazine
• Advice on North Atlantic Crossings from SailNet.com

Cruising Logs and Photo Albums:

• Tony Wright's Cruising Newfoundland (Photo Album)

  Thank you to Tony for stumbling across our web-site and offering some suggestions - we made some significant changes in our route as a result. Thanks again!

• Aborted Cruise of the Alamar to Newfoundland, Summer 2001
• Logs from the 2000 Northern Trip of Lord's Prayer. Of particular interest:
  • Boothbay, Maine to Cape Breton Island: Log 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63
  • St. John's to St. Pierre to Cape Breton Island: Log 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87
  • Cape Breton Island to Boothbay, Maine: Log 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 93 | 94 | 95
• Patient Nancy's Report from the Newfoundland Flotilla 2000, a follow-up to the Newfoundland Flotilla 1997
• Logs of the Hannah Brown's voyage from Newfoundland to Iceland (clickable image map)
• Bernie Howgate's Newfoundland Circumnavigation by Sea Kayak

Yacht Clubs and Marinas

• Great Bay Marine, Newington, New Hampshire

• Sailing the Shores of Newfoundland and Labrador -- Port by port directory of Marina or Harbormaster contacts and the like, with pictures and web links

  In Newfoundland, but outside the area of our cruise:

• Royal Newfoundland Yacht Club, Long Pond
• Terra Nova Yacht Club, Holyrood
• Moreton's Harbour Marina, Morton's Harbour
• Lewisporte Yacht Club, Lewisporte
• Bay of Islands Yacht Club Yacht Club, Corner Brook

Tourism Information:

• Visitor's Info, Canadian Customs and Revenue Administration

• Tourism and Travel Information, Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Government
• City of St. John's, Newfoundland

• St. Pierre et Miquelon, Territory of France

• Tourism and Travel Information, Nova Scotia Provincial Government
• Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
• Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia

Natural and Social History Information:

• Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage (social and natural history)
• Geological Survey of Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Simplified Geologic Map of Newfoundland (1.5 Mb PDF)
• Traveller's Guide to the Geology of Newfoundland and Labrador

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