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Kenai Fjords Yacht Club

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Welcome to Kenai Fjords Yacht Club

Welcome to Kenai Fjords Yacht ClubWelcome to Kenai Fjords Yacht Club

Organizations supporting our recreational boating community

Seward Small Boat Harbor

https://www.cityofseward.us/departments/harbor

Seward Chamber

https://www.seward.com/

William H Seward Yacht Club

Sister Yacht Club here in Seward, AK. 

http://www.whsyc.org/

Sailing, Inc

ASA Sailing Academy, Authorized dealer for Catalina, J-Boats and island Packet. Brokerage and Charters. 

http://www.sailinginc.com/

Resurrection Bay Sailing Charters

www.resurrectionbaysailingcharters.com

Seward Amateur Radio Club

https://www.sewardamateurradioclub.com/

Major Marine

https://majormarine.com/

Kenai Fjord Tours

https://www.alaskacollection.com/day-tours/kenai-fjords-tours/

Homer Yacht Club

https://www.homeryachtclub.org/

Big Lake Sailing Club

http://www.alaskasailingclub.com/ 

online resources

NOAA Booklet Chart

NOAA Booklet Chart

NOAA Booklet Chart

The NOAA BookletChart™ is an experimental product that you can print at home for free. They are made to help recreational boaters locate themselves on the water. The Booklet Chart is reduced in scale and divided into pages for convenience, but otherwise contains all the information of the full-scale nautical chart. Bar scales are also reduced in scale, but are accurate when used to measure distances in a BookletChart.  For charts of other areas: Atlantic Coast, Gulf Coast, Pacific Coast, Great Lakes.

US Coast Pilot

NOAA Booklet Chart

NOAA Booklet Chart

US Coast Pilot. – All nine books of the Coast Pilot, FREE, on-line. A series of nautical books that cover a variety of information important to navigators of coastal and intracoastal waters and the Great Lakes. Issued in nine volumes, they contain supplemental information that is difficult to portray on a nautical chart such as anchorages, currents, tide and water levels, prominent features, dangers, routes, and Federal regulations applicable to navigation. Coast Pilot volumes 8 and 9 covers Alaskan waters.

Boating Knots

NOAA Booklet Chart

Nautical Glossary

Let's begin with some basics. "A Scout's Guide to Boating Knots" was written and created by local Boy Scout Troop 325 to share what they learned in their Sea Scouting program project, covering important seamanship and boating skills. This article covers common and useful boating knots, terms, and a guide in safety. Thank you Troop 325!  

More knots for beginners here: a great resource with easy step-by-step directions found by another Boy Scout, Patrick. 

Nautical Glossary

Nautical Glossary

Nautical Glossary

Port or Starboard? Bow or Stern? Jib or Gybe?  Check out this nautical glossary of sailing terms and brush up on your terminology. Thanks for sharing this resource with us, Logan!  Boy Scout 2023

Chart Number 1

Nautical Glossary

Chart Number 1

Explains all the symbols on charts. Why pay? https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/publications/docs/us-chart-1/ChartNo1.pdf

COLREGS

Nautical Glossary

Chart Number 1

COLREGS. The official navigation rules of the road. These make for interesting reading, and are the ultimate authority on such items as whether the seaplane has right of way over the submarine. One MB PDF file.

American Practical Navigator

American Practical Navigator

American Practical Navigator

American Practical Navigator The classic and comprehensive reference on navigation. Updated yearly. Serious boaters should have a copy of this onboard. 

Free Electronic Charts

American Practical Navigator

American Practical Navigator

Free Nautical Charts! Your tax dollars at work! These are the SAME source materials that go into your printed charts. You may download RNC (raster nautical charts: scanned images of the original charts) or ENC (electronic nautical charts: vector-based charts created from the originals and with much more information).

OpenCAPN

American Practical Navigator

SeaClearII

OpenCAPN – A Chartplotter and GPS Navigation Software for Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista 7, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and Macintosh OSX. OpenCPN is a free software (GPLv2) project to create a concise chartplotter and navigation software for use as an underway or planning tool. OpenCPN is developed by a team of active sailors using real world conditions for program testing and refinement. OpenCPN is a good place to start if you're undecided on electronic chart plotters.

SeaClearII

Nautical Almanac

SeaClearII

SeaClear II – A free, full-featured Windows-based charting program that displays Electronic Navigational Charts from the U.S. Government. It works with GPS input, too, converting your laptop into a chartplotter. http://www.sping.com/seaclear/

Nautical Almanac

Nautical Almanac

Nautical Almanac

Nautical Almanac: Regardless of what method of celestial navigation one uses, essential information can only be found in the Nautical Almanac. 

RESOURCES Continued

All the valuable resources listed previously on kfyc.org will be converted to this page. Please check back soon. If you have any go-to resources, please contact us! 

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