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United States Power Squadron

• Official United States Power Squadrons site
• USPS's National Safe Boating Test
• The new America's Boating Course
• USPS squadrons, districts, committees, and the Ensign
• USPS squadrons from our District 14
• Neighboring USPS squadrons of District 1 and District 12
• USPS basic (public) boating courses
• USPS member's advanced grades
• USPS member's elective courses

Boating Safety

• US Coast Guard
• Coast Guard Auxiliary
• USCG Office of Boating Safety
• Safe Boating Council
• Canadian Coast Guard
• Coast Guard 1st District Local Notice to Mariners

Rhode Island

• State of Rhode Island
• Rhode Island tourism
• Rhode Island tourism
• Block Island tourism
• South County tourism
• T. F. Green State Airport
• Providence Warwick Convention and Visitor's Bureau
• Newport County Convention and Visitor's Bureau
• City of Providence
• Providence Journal
• Providence Chamber of Commerce
• Providence Business News
• Providence Bruins - AHL hockey
• Pawtucket Red Sox - AAA baseball
• Roger Williams National Memorial
• RhodeMap.com is your guide to Ocean State websites
• Ocean State Online is a guide to websites on Rhode Island
• The Ocean State Free-Net
• Coast Guard Auxiliary Narragansett Bay, West
• Save The Bay
• URI Foundation Boat Donation & Sales

Weather

• National Weather Service
• NWS "iwin" forecasting center
• NWS Boston office
• Forecast for Rhode Island from the National Weather Service
• Coastal forecast for southern New England from the National Weather Service
• NWS office at Florida State University
• Weather Channel
• Weather Underground
• Marine Weather dot Com
• Forecast for Providence from the Weather Channel
• Forecast for Providence from the Weather Underground
• Real-time weather data from URI's Narragansett Bay Campus
• Real-time PORTS weather, tide, wind, and current data

Astronomy

• US Naval Observatory
• USNO Public Affairs Office sky this week
• USNO Astronomical Applications Department nautical almanac

Time

• USNO Time Service Department official time
• National Institute of Standards
• NIST Time and Frequency Division

Tides

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Ocean Service
• XTide (requires UNIX and X Windows)
• University of South Carolina harmonic tide and current predictor (based on XTide)
• Tide predictions for Point Judith from the University of South Carolina

Mapping

• US Geologic Survey
• USGS national atlas
• NOAA National Geodetic Survey
• Bureau of the Census Tiger mapping service
• Area map of Narragansett Bay from the Census Bureau
• Xerox PARC map viewer
• Maps and aerial photos from the USGS/Microsoft TerraServer (requires Internet Explorer 4)
• An overview of map projections from the University of Colorado
• An overview of map datums from the University of Colorado
• An overview of coordinate systems from the University of Colorado
• XEarth (requires UNIX and X Windows)
• A real-time display of the earth (based on XEarth)
• Earth and moon viewer from Fourmilab
• Real-time view of Narragansett Bay from Fourmilab

Navigation

• National Imagery and Mapping Agency Marine Navigation Department Publication 9 (Bowditch)
• The Institute of Navigation
• An introduction to celestial navigation and sight reduction from somewhere in Germany
• Inland and International Rules from Starpath (requires Windows 95)
• An overview of global positioning systems from the University of Colorado

Art

• Marine Art Information Center

History

• Naval Historical Center
• Naval War College Museum in Newport
• History of the Navy in Narragansett Bay from the Naval War College Museum
• Texas A & M University Institute of Nautical Archaeology
• Florida State University's program in Underwater Archaeology
• Hudson River Maritime Museum
• Maritime History and Naval Heritage
• Maine Maritime Museum
• Historic Naval Ships Visitors' Guide

Flags

• Find any Flag of the World here
• A signal flag screensaver from PC Magazine (requires Windows 95)

Knots

• Some basic useful boating knots
• Learn how to tie all kinds of knots from the 42nd Brighton Scout Group
• The mathematical theory of knots

Other Interesting Sites

• National Park Service
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Envionmental Protection Agency
• Mapquest
• Superpages
• Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport
• USS Rhode Island (SSBN 740), Submarine Squadron 16 at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay

Commercial Sites

• Celestaire
• Starpath
• Landfall Navigation
• Boat/US
• West Marine