505 Sailing Info

• Take a look at the award winning N.A. 505 web site
• The West Coast 505 Info Source
• The Canadian National 505 Association
• And the colourful Swedish 505 page
• Montreal
• The Swiss 505 Site
• The Zurich 505 Site, with the niftiest animated 505 you ever saw!
• The Finnish Site is nicely designed, but unfortunately most of us will find the Finnish language difficult to read.
• The French National Organization
• The German Site
• The Ozzie Site
• A French Magazine
• 5-0-5 nostalgia trip - A website for 505 fans who remember "the good old days." Pelle Bath in Gothenburg has some photos from the sixties and the seventies. They are on a fantastic history page. For those of you who were not born then... the brothers Christer and Pelle Bath were the Swedish Superstars in 505 during 1965-1974. Pelle was the crew in this internationally succesfully team.
• The new US 505 builder, Witchcraft.
• U.S. west coast site.
• North Sails keelboat racing sails.

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Great Articles in SailingWorld

Some of these articles in SailingWorld are written by 505'ers.

• Baylis’ Wisdom from the Wire (10/01/2002) In an interview with Dave Reed, world champion skiff crew Trevor Baylis shares some of his insight about crewing at the highest level and winning. From our October 2002 issue.
• Counterpoint Steve Taylor, former 505 World Champion, shared his ideas about why some kinetics should be allowed and some should not.
• Top of the Beat Tactics (11/01/2001) Bob Merrick explains how to gain at the top of the first beat
• Power Trapezing: How to become a weapon on the wire
• You're Going to Get Wet Anyway: Dinghy sailors are making the switch from spraysuits to wetsuits as stretchier neoprene and better designs make them warmer and more wearable.
• Splitting Tacks on Tacking: Have you ever considered turning backward through a tack? Crews who tack facing aft can key off their skippers' movements to synchronize the timing of their roll.
• Slip Sliding Away: A smooth bottom is a fast bottom. Is the bottom of your boat smooth enough?
• Think Simple Thoughts: Hold her steady, tiller is balanced...NICE PRESSURE
• Help Your Aching Back by Straightening Your Sailor's Slouch
• Zig Zag Your Way from Top to Bottom Sailing more distance can get you there faster. Olympian Nick Adamson demonstrates the newest way to get downhill.

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Local Sailing Info

• The Britannia Yacht Club
• The Nepean Sailing Club
• The Lac Deschenes Sailing Club
• The Kingston Yacht Club
• The Gatineau River Yacht Club
• The Ottawa Sailing Page

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Local Weather

• Environment Canada 5 day forecast
• Environment Canada animated radar
• The Airport
• NSC wind charts
• BoatTraining wind charts
• Intellicast Radar
• Intellicast 10 day forecast
• Intellicast wind patterns
• AccuWeather forecast
• TheWeatherNetwork forecast

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Other Sailing Pages

• Sailcut CAD is a sail design and plotting software which allows you to design and visualise your own sail and compute the accurate development of all panels in flat sheets. The original Sailcut was a Visual Basic program developped by Robert Lainé. The new version, called Sailcut CAD, is developped jointly by Robert and Jeremy Lainé and is distributed under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL). See also the sourceforge site.
• National Capital FreeNet
• Gougeon Brothers, Inc. Manufacturer of WEST SYSTEM® Brand Epoxy Products
• Mistral Sailboards!!
• 18 Footer Class!!
• Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering
• Sailmaking Technology at UK Sailmakers
• Ken Turner's Sailing Page: links, wind speed converter, ...
• Sail4U Home: a commercial site in Belgium
• The Sailing Source - The Internet Sailing Magazine
• Covey Island Boatworks, expert wooden boat builders in Nova Scotia
• Dudley Dix Yacht Design: Lofting tutorial
• Boat Design and Boatbuilding Books
• Lofting Techniques
• Reverse Engineering 3D Computer Hull Shapes From 2D Lines Drawings and Offsets Tables

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Suppliers

• Fogh Marine, Toronto
  416 251 0384
  800 342 3644
  fax 416 251 3222
• Chandlery, Ottawa
  613 820 7642
• Layline
  1 800 542 5463

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