Colsmith Cruising / Sailing Links

I have been collecting links about sailing for a while mostly just in my bookmarks. I started putting some of this in an html so I could get it from a different browser, and here it is. I add links to this frequently. I am putting dates at the end of the new ones, indicating that ones to the end of the category are new.

Some things are in multiple categories.

The disclaimer is that some of the new ones go in without being checked, yielding some bad URLs. Some of these places have their web sites disappear and come back. Some of the ones that I have not visited in a long while may be gone. We bought a lagoon 37 in 9/00, so I am limiting the updates I am making to sailing school, boats for sale, and charter boats, with the exception of the British Virgin Islands where our boat is in charter with Conch charters. I have been concentrating on equipment and operational sites. I may be reorganizing this site, stay tuned. We also have a general travel page.

Things marked MBS00 are some of the places that I visited in conjunction with the Miami boat show in Feburary 2000.

Index for this page:

• Boat owners world lots of stuff not just sailing They have sent me mail suggesting that people want to go in at their top level page of top level page which has their counter and may some day have a choice of languages. But for now there is no useful information, it just loads a (big) picture and than instantly disappears and sends you to the first page I have referenced, so my advice is just use the first URL that I list.
• sail free a group of listings
• American sailing association ASA sailing schools, standards and certification. Discounts
• US Sailing sailing school certification. As of 12/98 most things are blank.
• The magazines Cruising World and Sailing World are put out by the same people. The former is mainly pleasure sailing (is adding technical stuff, but could have more) and the latter performance. They have reviews of different boats under the archive section. I have renewed my subscription to Cruising World
• Canadian Yacht Magazine has indexed reviews of boats.
• Multi-Hull Magazine has lots of charter companies names & links with boats they sail. Most of their lists do not have online contacts, just mailing addresses and phone numbers. I have been getting their publication for about 1/2 a year, but I will not renew my subscription. The things that are "news" in the magazine is hopeless out of date (in the March-April 2000 issue that arrived in July 2000, they have "hot news" that took place in January.) Lots of the articles are just ads and press releases.
• PDQ Yachts links page includes charter companies that use PDQs
• Boat Show lots of links and a Boat Show on CD-ROM lots of info on lots of boats (they say)
• Sail Net Sailing Magazine
• World Wide Wharf (advertising page)
• Yacht World search for Yacht World boats just BUC Yacht Sales
• US Coast Guard and US Coast Guard office of boating safety
• National imagery and mapping agency the key workd here is "maps" from the US government.
• Boat Safe I am not clear on who runs this but they keep referring to the US Coast Guard as "we"
• Canadian Coast Guard and
• Blue Water Sailing School links page
• The Mother of All Maritime Links
• boat links 12/99 mostly power
• America's Cup
• Multihulls World Europen multihulls magazine 2/00
• Multihull international Magazine
• Segel Sport Swedish language
• Sailors For the Sea conservation group

• Strictly Sail  Chicago 3-6 February 2000 other cities other dates. 1-312-946-6262 Miami 17-22 February 2000 Metro bus for Miami
• NMMA National Marine Manufacturers Boat Association boat shows
• 13th Racine In-Water Boat Show August19-22 1999
• Annapolis boat shows October 5-9, 2000
• Sail Expo

1. Tortola yacht services brokerage boatyard chandlery British Virgin Islands great descriptions of boats, includes pictures.
2. boat guy generic boat listings just one liners
3. 26' Morris
4. Hans Christian 43' ketch ASA classes live-a-board classes 1 week 101&103 or 103&104 ~$1.3k/p
5. Island Yachting Center Palmetto FL south of Tampa Bay, north of Sarasota
6. Bollyman Yachts Ft. Lauderdale >$300,000
7. Just Yachts has lots of brokerage places listed (look for JY in listing) They tend to have BIG boats (50' to 192' (yes 192 feet or 59m sail boat) but some smaller ones.
   1. Larsen Marine Waukegan, IL
   2. Navigator Yachts has some small (>=36') cats for sale, does charter service on your boat.
8. BUC Net
   1. Florida Yacht charters & sales 137 boats (no cats?) Miami, Key West & Bahamas 2nd URL. JY Charter ownership, NEW Hunter only (including great tax information.) Coast guard & ASA school has used cats. MBS00. Currently (7/00) lists only other brokers online.
   2. Massey Yacht Palmetto FL on Tampa bay &Caribbean ASA school has a 6 day 101 & 103 & 104 class $995/p. Has a 3 day 2 night on board 106. Charters as "Sun Sail". no visible cats. Will be at both the Chicago and Miami boat show in Feb 2000. MBS00 no cats 2/13/00
   3. Nelson Yacht Sales NC is a BUC Yacht broker, and has a second listing there. skip the hype and get to their main page, lots of good information, high priced used boats.
   4. Buy-a-boat WI and IL
   5. Lawson Yachts Hingham MA. a yacht world site.
9. Triton Yacht Sales NC, 80+ brokerage boats 1 cat.
10. Southern Trades sales & BVI. Management. Sales, SBVI00 24 cats, 3>$200k
11. New Wave Yachts MA 2
12. Offshore Atlantic Yachts Riviera Beach FL(near palm beach) Passport Mason Tayana & Valiant I see one tri in their used market. MBS00 no cats 2/13/00
13. Blue Water Cruising TX
14. Saulk, Gantous & Associates SGA Fort Lauderal FL
15. Sail Boat Sales Co. Chicago IL 2/99
16. Toledo Beach Yacht Sales LaSalle MI
17. RCR Yachts Youngstown NY
18. Sailboats Inc Manitowoc, Superior WI & Minneapolis MN
19. Harris & Ellis Yachts Oakville ON
20. Port Sonilac Marina MI
21. Pugh's on Erie Street Racine WI New Hunters
22. Pugh's on Erie Street Racine WI
23. St Clari Sailboat Center MI
24. Britannia Boats Ltd. Annapolis MD
25. Anchorage Bolder Co 4/99
26. Light Ship
27. Sun Yachts
28. American Boat Listings FSBO power and sail. Has an email hot-sheet service.
29. Torresen Marine Muskegon MI. an ASA school, we took 101 & 103 through them with Ed Jarvas.
30. Sail Place Inc.
31. Emerald Yachts 300 N. Van Buren, Milwaukee WI
32. Sailboats 4 sale.com 12/99
33. Yachts 4 sale.com
34. Marine Source.com has boat listings by state. MBS00
35. boats for sale magazine classified ads are online without pictures.
36. Boat scape auction for gear and boats.
37. National Boat Brokers as of 2/17 their web pages is not up.
38. Don Robertson's marine Market Place (yachtsales.com) lots of links as well. Includes a list to marine surveyors and what they do.
39. 411Boating directory Boat broker
40. Palmer Johnson Sturgen Bay and Racine WI, marine supplies.
41. Wodden Boat
42. Metal Boat Quarterly Which is a service of Kasten Marine
43. Good old boat 6/00
44. Soundings
45. Boat Trader On Line
46. Soundings
47. Wizard Yachts Ltd aka Fast Is Fun. Whitbread winners, open 50s converted to crusing (mostly.) New boats as well.
48. Crusader Yachts St. Peatersburg FL. all mono hulls. 7/00
49. Advanced Yachts Annapolis Maryland. The brokerage boats seem to be just about all Prout
50. Classifieds Y2K Yachts
51. Yachtsnet Ltd. UK
52. Soundings best boat sail from the 2001 Practical Sailor magazine

1. Sail away yachts Palm beach FL. High end new and used, some pictures, technical. Part of "BUC Yacht Sales Network" an MLS service MBS00
2. http://www.2hulls.com/ Ft. Lauderdale FL lots of boats, lots of pictures, used for sale and sold, also a gallery of boats.  Lots of information about cats in general, and brokered sales. It also has "the list" 250 used boats, various sources. MBS00
3. The Catamaran Company Fort Lauderdale mainly NEW, lists ~45 used, all >$200k, >35',uses BUC. Charters a.k.a. TOPCAT, includes Caribbean & Belize, crewed & bare boat. Yacht management program
4. Tortola Yacht Services Brokerage, boatyard & chandlery
5. Patric Boyd Multihulls UK lots of multi hulls, including cheap ones, all over the world.
6. Multi-hull World UK Output of used boats in PDF format only. Mostily tri-marans, racers and motor sailers.
7. Caraibe-yachts GUADELOUPE. Is very good at telling you what needs to be done to the boats.
8. all about boats lots of boat links including lists of dealers by state. 1/00
9. BVI Yacht Sales British virgin islands & has cats and others
10. Stuart Yacht Stuart Fl Mostly (all?) mono hulls MBS00
11. All boats
12. Boat4you DK
13. Boat for sale magazine not much info online.
14. National Boat Brokers
15. Chesapeake Catamaran Center Annapolis MD
16. Navigator Yacht Sales West Palm Beach FL MBS00
17. The Multihull Source Catana. new and used. We tried to deal with them for a used boat. Bert K. was not very helpful, did not return some calls and email. We finally just abandoned the effort to try to buy the boat that they had for sale.
18. All Corsair sites:
    • The Finish Line also called fboats. Main 7/00
    • WindCraft Atlanta GA
19. Adventure Yacht Sales is the yacht world site. Multihulls only. I have tried this site a couple of times, their brokerage site was broken in different ways each time I tried. They also have a site at In the UK.
20. Chesapeake Catamaran Center Annapolis MD
21. Catamaran Traders Catamaran.net Miami FL MBS00

1. Saber
2. Beneteau
3. Dehler Boston
4. Moody Yachts
5. C & C Yachts OH
6. Catalina Yachts 1997 Cruising boat of the year, best midsize
7. Hunter Alachua FL
8. Hallberg-Rassy HR31-62'
   New England East Land Yachts 
   West Coast Yachts has a good search for used boats
   
9. Melges small personal Performance Sailboats Zena WI 2/99
10. Shannon Yachts
11. Hinckley Brokers
12. Saga Yachts smallest is 42'
13. Portland Pudgy Nrdic Tugs Sailing dinghy.

1. Prout cat England
2. Sometimes URL is unavailable, try back in a week. Endeavour cat deep water cats.
3. PDQ Yachts Altair PDQ Yachts links page includes charter companies that use PDQs. Cruising yachts built for speed 32 & 36'
4. Fountaine Pajot most of it is in French, look for the US flag for English,  not much stuff really.
5. Great Lakes Cats Cambridge Ontario, Canada Fountain Pajot
6.  Dufour Yachts Annapolis MD NAUTITECH 39-98'
7. Manta Largo FL (west coast of FL on Tampa Bay at Clearwater ) lists pre-owned boats
8. Multi Hull Center UK
9. Gemini
10. Lagoons from Lagoon America
    and other suppliers
11. Saint Bart's Yachts
    
12. Cruising Cats USA Alameda CA It has lots of different new cats, Gemini, Fountaine Pajot, Aquilon 26, Seawind 1000 (33'x20')
    
13. Bay Yacht Agency Annapolis MD skip the hype and get to their main page, lots of good information, high priced used boats. Sells French X-Tax boats. Puts boats into charter services including TMM bare boat vacations no program length, just pay expenses get all remaining income. They have a special web page that requires a password. Sail away yachts The also are advertised with name sailscape. wich goes to the same place as the above. Phone 410-263-2311 1-800-yacht20 fax 410-267-0983
14. Voyage Yachts FL, MA, CA La Digue 370, Norseman 430, Mayotte 500  2
15. Multi Hull Designs Kurt Hughes
16. Dufour Yachts this is just a pointer into Boat Show
17. French Cats Inc. Fort Lauderdale Fl. now boats, the Outremmer 38 -64 not much info. MBS00
18. Alwoplast
19. Wildcat South Africa balsa cored 35'
20. FarrierTri 24-36' cat 41'
21. Maine cat (mecat) 30'
22. Contour tri 30-47', but the 47 is not listed on the web page as of 2/00
23. Wormwood Yachts They have a weird site, try resizing your window to the the same aspect ratio that they built the site with.
24. catana also has used boats out there, not always their own.
25. Emultihulls Australia. New and used multihulls. The frames over lapped (hence not very readable) with my (old) version of netscape.
26. Patric Boyd Multihulls UK lots of multi hulls, including cheap ones, all over the world.
27. Performance crusing Telstar 28 Trimaran.

1. Swift Yacht Charters
2. Seven Seas Yacht Charters resells other peoples charters, Caribean and Mediterranean.
3. Barrington-Hall Corp Crewed luxury charters.
4. Sail Scotland it is really a slow loading site, and it has hung netscape for me. The have a searchable database for learning to sail, charters, and marinas, the last time I tried it it found nothign for any of them.

Florida

1. SWFY Southwest FL Yachts advertises classes 104 $694 3d. bareboat rentals, has 2 for sale.
2. Treasure harbor Marine FL CHECK SHORTENED HTML
3. Cruise Southwest Florida FL Key West Pensacola and ASA classes $150/person/day + boat + texts. Buy a boat and they run it as charter for you.
4. Yachting Vacations FL
5. schools certified, live abroad Go Native Miami FL keys Bahamas 60' cat CSY 44, privilege 39, tartan 37, islander 34, saber 28 - will manage charters for your boat good course list, but most are on weekends, sounds good if you live in Miami
6. Florida Sailing Club boat owners keep 70% of fees, complicated membership for non-boat owners.

1. Conch charters British Virgin Islands. Has our Lagoon 37 for charter. Send us email jmcolsmith@worldnet.att.net and we can give you more information and maybe get you some discounts.
2. sun sail sailing has used boats
3. The Moorings vacation classes in association with Offshore Sailing School Chicago FL Caribbean Newport NJ. They have had brokerage boats on a different web page recently. Try their brokerage web site.
4. does instruction, not certified barefoot yacht charters St. Vincent & Grenadines CT one cat
5. cruise for less St. Lucia Martinique The Grenadines $119/person 2 days
6. web site not set up just go beneteau 50 St. Lucia
7. school Guadeloupe bare boat + safe delivery Caribbean, pacific Mediterranean, Venezuela cats MD crewed $9.5k - instruction on day course $160 first 3d $160 send 3d $650 8d advanced - Tahiti 9d $750
8. Ed Hamilton & Co Virgin Islands, St. Martin, the Grenadines and Caribbean Tahiti
9. Caribbean Sailing Charters St. Thomas 2
10. CYOA bare boats, crewed, classes, ownership
11. Caribbean Sailing Charters 3
12. Charter Smarter bare boats
13. Caribbean sailing adventure Yacht Charter (bareboat and crewed) in the Caribbean : Grenadines, Cuba, Virgin Islands, Belize Grenada, Los Roques, Antigua, Panama San Blas * placesin Caribbean
14. Catamaransailing.com Bareboat & Crewed.

1. Conch charters British Virgin Islands. Has our lagoon 37 for charter. Send us email jmcolsmith@worldnet.att.net and we can give you more information and maybe get you some discounts.
2. club owned virgin sailing yachts mostly bare boat, not really an ownership thing.
3. URL no longer connects 8/00 Seabreeze yacht charters BVI & Grenada also classes
4. Island Yachts bareboat & crewed charter sale/manage Island Packets. Brokerage for used boats (Island Packets)
5. Endless Summar II 72' crewed
6. URL no longer connects 8/00 classes basic and off shore/overnight
7. North South Yacht Vacations (nsyv)
8. Psipsina Crewed catamaran charters in the Caribbean luxurious private yacht Psipsina.
9. Pentsileah crewed by a family for families.

Greece/ Turkey /Malta

• Albatross Greece & Turkey
• GPC charters Greece (out of Philadelphia)
• Go Sailing Charters
• Water Ways
• Malta Yachting list of different people.