http://www.rnli.org.uk/upload/complete_eCD/fscommand/pop_up_safety.htm

RNLI. Click on the CD ROM down the page for excellent programme

http://www.tb-training.co.uk/

Tony Brooks courses - excellent low cost courses on diesel engines / electrics etc with comprehensive notes on the web site

http://www.seavoice-training.co.uk/

VHF courses - Merseyside areas

Weather Forecasts
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_forecast_weather.html

UK Met Office - local, shipping, inshore etc

http://www.pdfamily.com/weather/buoy/UKbuoy.php

 UK & Eire Buoy wind and wave displays (1 metre/sec = 2 knots)

http://weather.mailasail.com/Franks-Weather/Home

From the respected yachting weather guru.

Passage Planning
http://www.rccpf.org.uk/

Royal Cruising Club Pilotage Foundation UK

Tides
http://easytide.ukho.gov.uk/EasyTide/EasyTide/index.aspx

Easytide - Tide prediction 6 days ahead from UK Hydrographic Office.  UK / Europe

http://www.hydro.nl/pgs/en/software_en.htm

Netherlands Hydrographic Office freeware - tide height predictions for UK and NL 

http://www.shom.fr/ann_marees/

Tide predictions for France

http://www.pol.ac.uk/ntslf/tidalp.html

Very clear tide predictions for UK

Knots
http://tollesburysc.co.uk/Knots/Knots

Animated knot tying.  Good site, but the bowline is left handed...and wrong

Safety

http://www.maib.gov.uk/publications/

 Read down page for Safety Digests - ncident reports with many lessons to be learnt

http://www.chirp.co.uk/feedback-list.asp?fb=M

http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/signals.pdf

 SOLAS Distress signals - you must carry this

http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/solas.pdf

 SOLAS passage planning regs for small craft

http://www.southamptonvts.co.uk/yguide.htm

Safety Guide to Southampton Water

Notices to Mariners
http://www.nmwebsearch.com/ 

Chart corrections

Sails and Sailing
http://www.wb-sails.fi/news