Category Archives: Safety

XCWeather, WindMapper and BoatU.S. Navigator

We’ve added a few new tools to Harbour Exchange. These services are embedded into the Harbour Exchange Portal so that sailors can find the best of the web to do with sailing, weather, navigation, tides and other services, really, really easily.
We’ve just added:
XC Weather for UK weather forecasts and winds
WindMapper for US weather forecasts and [...]

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How to be Safe at Sea – IT’S WET

Every year in the UK more than 8,000 rescues are made by the RNLI, with more than 50% of these being responses to leisure sailors like us. While many of these are real accidents that no-one could have forseen, a great proportion are rescues or incidents that could have been avoided by better preparation [...]

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