- LINKS -
Sailing
Related Links and Resources
Links for News and Current Affairs
Sailing Related Links and Resources:
Noonsite.com
The foremost site for cruising information world-wide.
Not to be missed if you are sailing internationally.
Dick
Newick Multihull Designs
Dick designed our amazing and incredible, beautiful
and wonderous Naga. And he's designed over
100 other elegant designs, some of which have represented
historic design breakthroughs.
Our
Blog Site: Sailing Around the World with
Trimaran Naga
Announcements of new updates combines with the ability of
visitors to post messages and replies. All multihull, trimaran,
sailing and cruising people - or just dreamers - are welcome.
Ninth
Charm trimaran website
Ninth Charm is a sistership to our trimaran
Naga. She's somewhat newer, she sports a
wing mast, and she's build in foam core and epoxy,
unlike Naga's wood/epoxy (WEST System)
construction. The Charmers are in the South West
Pacific as I write this, not so far from us,
and one of these days we hope to get together.
Take a look at their site.
Pirate
Book: 21st Century Pirate
Hers' a book loaded with
treachery and greed and disasters at sea.
The author takes you on a wild ride from
his early hippie days on the island of Key
West and south Florida to Jamaica and
the islands of the Caribbean.
Defender
Marine (USA)
A good alternative to West Marine among USA equipment
source, and usually cheaper, Defender is my favorite
stateside source for all sorts of marine boating
equipment.
Glascraft
Marine (Australia)
I've had great luck ordering from Glascraft for
delivery to New Zealand and the South Pacific, cheaper
than US or Kiwi orders.
Garhauer
Marine Hardware (California)
Garhauer produces excellent quality deck hardware
in 316 Stainless Steel and marine grade aluminum,
specializing in beautiful ball bearing blocks. Their
equipment is at extremely competitive prices and
are much cheaper than competitors like Lewmar or
Harken or Schaefer.
A
Short Guide to Celestial Navigation
An excellent
site that explains the mysteries and provides free
computer software to do your calculations.
Low-Cost-Pharmacy.Net
Savings
on Generic Drugs, Name Brand Drugs, and Natural
Herbal Remedies, all provided with Top Service from
carefully selected sources.
Cheap
Cigarettes
Our www.nativeblend.net main business site for cigarettes
savings and quite a lot more.
Our
Resources Page
Visit our Resources page for loads of sailing related
resources and their links.
- Other Favorite Links and Resources -
Links for News and Current Affairs:
Most of us cruisers who have been living aboard or cruising for a while rely heavily on Short Wave broadcasts to keep up with news and current events. The Internet has recently become another source.
Our links mostly avoid the large state or commercial broadcasters and their websites because you get their establishment unitary version and views on things incessantly and at every turn anyway. It's normal for them to be pro-big-business and pro-big-power - and since we are just normal little folks they don't seem to represent our interests or views very well! So we prefer alternative sources, sources that are more for the little guy and progressive. You probably don't know some of them, so enjoy . . .
GlobalResarch.Ca
- The Center for Research on Globalization
This is perhaps one of the most important sites on
the Net. An amazing site that makes it very clear
that nothing in today's world is as it seems to be.
Visit this site to discover the world you are living
in now.
BBC
World Service
The World Service is less valuable than it was some
10 or more years ago - much less independent, less
courageous, much more like the corporate media -
so it's no longer a reliable voice about "controversial"
subjects or news. Nevertheless, with that caveat
in mind, it remains one of the major news sources.
Check the website for frequencies and schedules.
Radio
for Peace International
RFPI, out of Costa Rica, was forced off the air
recently by the "POB" - Powers that Be
- but it retains a website and will apparently be
on the air again soon. It was a rare and valuable
resource, especially when "controversial"
things were happening, and we hope to hear them
again. Check the website for frequencies and schedules.
Democracy
Now!
A real leader in alternative hard-hitting news,
much of which is extremely important and rarely
gets covered by the big corporate establishment
or state controlled media.
Radio
Havana
In a world where it's increasingly impossible to
find non-corporate or non-big-power dominated news,
RHC looks like a real hero! The English language
service focuses on USA news of interest to Cuba
and to progressive minded people. Check
the website for frequencies and schedules.
Granma
International
The main newspaper - of many - from Cuba, Granma
offers solid news stories, many of which are normally
found glossed over or completely ignored by the
"major media" in the "first world."
Granma merits regular visits.
WSWS
- World Socialist Web Site
The WSWS includes frequent trenchantly perceptive
commentaries on current events that are often worth
a good look. It has a lot of other fascinating offerings
too.
John
Pilger - The journalism and films of John Pilger
Pilger's work appears regularly in The Independent
(Britain) and elsewhere. He deals with the most
important issues of the day - and the era! - cutting
mercilessly through the thick fog of obfuscation
that permeates most media on matters of importance.
He penetrates clearly into the essence of issues
and their real relevance for us.
And sometimes we share links with other sites:
www.sea-ex.com
This site
is for Internet Marketing and Web Hosting
with loads of marine and fishing stuff.
