A Personal Guide to The Ports of the Channel

Nicholas Hill

Links

Marinas and harbours

Marina websites often given good navigational information concerning their relevant port/harbour.

Brighton Marina
Southsea Marina, Langstone
Langstone Harbour
Chichester Harbour
Haslar Marina, Gosport
Gosport Marina
Royal Clarence Marina, Gosport
QHM Gosport
River Hamble Harbour Authority
Cowes- navigation info
Cowes Yacht Haven
East Cowes Marina
Lymington Yacht Haven
Yarmouth Harbour

MDL marinas -
The MDL site covers:
Queen Anne's Battery (Plymouth), Brixham Marina, Torquay Marina; Cobb's Quay (Poole), Hythe Marina Village, Ocean Marina Village , Shamrock Quay (Southampton); Hamble Point, Port Hamble, Mercury Yacht Harbour, Northney Marina (Chichester); Bray Marina, Windsor Marina, Ponton Hook Marina (all on the Thames); Chatham Maritime Marina, Woolverstone Marina.

Guernsey Harbour Authority - navigational and other info
St Helier

Cherbourg


Weather
Inshore Waters Forecast from the Met Office

Shipping Forecast

UK wind map - an excellent site showing current wind strengths over the UK

Synoptic chart - from the Met Office - via Germany!

Infra Red Satellite image

Other links:
RYA

RNLI

Coastguards

MAIB reports - worth downloading many of these and reading at leisure!

Yachting Monthly/PBO etc

Directory of marinas throughout the United States and abroad with services for boaters and marinas owners.

Hightide Sailing School