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Animated knots at each of

• Grog's Animated Knots
• US Sailing - Keelboat Course, Knots and Lines
• http://www.apparent-wind.com/knots/

Splicing instructions at each of:

• New England Ropes
• Samson Rope Technologies
• Yale Cordage
• Sailing Services

Ballenas CPSS Squadron's interactive lights program (Aids to Navigation)

US Sailing Sail rules of the road program (online interactive)

US Powerboating rules of the road program (online interactive)

Navrules, a shareware program to teach the lights, shapes, and sound signals required by the Collision Regulations

How to use parallel rules:

• Nautical Know How
• US Sailing

How to use dividers:

• Nautical Know How
• US Sailing

NOAA (American) Coast Pilot Guides

Canadian Hydrographic Service interactive chart catalogue

Canadian Hydrographic Service: Tide and Current Tables

Canadian Hydrographic Service: Notices to Mariners and List of Lights, Bouys and Fog Signals

Canadian Hydrographic Service: Chart 1 - Symbols and Abbreviations

Canadian Coast Guard Safe Boating Guide

Bowditch: American Practical Navigator (.pdf download)

US Sailing - Videos & Training: Knots, use of spring lines, etc

US Powerboating videos -- Anchoring, docking, using mooring buoys, boat handling