Manchester Cruising
Association
www.manca.org.uk

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PUBLICATIONS

NOTICES TO MARINERS
UKHO Notices to Mariners
French SHOM
Irish Marine Notices
CHARTS
Admiralty
!!Stanfords
Imray
French SHOM
Marine Chart Service

ALMANACS
Reeds Almanac

SUPPLIERS

SAFETY
Lifejackets just lifejackets
Anchorstore

PROPELLOR PROTECTION
Prop protector
RopeStripper
Spurs Cutter

ELECTRICS/ONICS

Marine Mart
Marine Electronics Services
Yachtbits electronics
Easydevices GPS only
Power Store - boat power systems
McMurdo electronics
NASA Marine electronics
Echopilot SONAR
Barden Batteries
Icom radios
Garmin
Marine Electrics - a 5% discount to MCA members
MarineZone - discount for members
Promotion code in members' area
Ensign Systems
Ultraleds LED lighting systems

OUTBOARD MOTORS

Martin Yates Marine
Lancaster UK for Honda, Mariner/Mercury
Wills Marine
Devon UK Johnson, Evinrude, Mariner/Mercury
Mercruiser Parts, Florida, USA
Useful technical info and drawings for Mercury engines

SAILS, MASTS, REEFING

Kemp Sails
Hood Sails
Banks Sails
Arun and Rockall
Crusader Sails
Jeckell Sails
Quay Sails
Gowen Ocean Sailmakers
Hong Kong Sailmakers
Dolphin Sails

Rotostay headsail reefing
Profurl headsail reefing
Barton Boomstrut

CHANDLERS

United Kingdom

Aladdin's Cave
Force 4
Gaelforce
Mailspeedmarine
MarineStore Chandlery
Marine Megastore
Marine Superstore
Marinezone
Mountain and Marine
North Wales Boat Centre
On LIne Marine
Piplers of Poole
Purple Marine
Safety-Marine - safety equipment
Seamark Nunn
Seateach chandlery and sails
Shipmates
Shipshape Marine
Shipside Marine
West Marine (US based)

NORTHWEST SUPPLIERS

CHANDLERS

Shipshape Marine Stockport
Mailspeed Marine Warrington-based chandler
Mountain & Marine Poynton, Cheshire
North Wales Boat Centre Llandudno

SUPPLIERS AND REPAIRS

Atlantic Instruments Holyhead marine electronics
ABC Power Marine outboards, boats and storage Sherlock Foams Stockport's answer to hard berths
Polymarine Inflatables & outboards & repairs
TW Marine Ltd Bukh diesels
Ensign Systems Electronics and software

YACHT SALES

Preston Marina
Dickies of Bangor

YACHT SURVEYS

mgsurveying Surveys from Preston to Pwllheli
Andrew Potter Surveys NorthWest and Wales
Northern Yacht Surveyors Northern England
Scott Marine Ltd Conwy
NW Surveying Services Northwest and Wales

TRAINING AND CHARTER

Cheshire Training
Conwy School of Yachting

ORGANISATIONS

RYA
Cruising Association
Trinity House
Northern Lighthouse Board
The Commissioners of Irish Lights
Marine and Coastguard Agency
RNLI
Marine Accident Investigation Branch
CHIRP Charitable Trust
RoSPA water safety
US Coastguard Nav Center

Radio licensing OFCOM

Royal Institute of Navigation
Royal Institution of Naval Architects
Royal Meteorological Society
The Royal Navy

British Marine Federation
British Waterways
!French Waterways (VNF) and CEVNI

Conference of Yacht Cruising Clubs
International Sailing Federation

Owners' Associations

Westerly Owners Association

NORTHWEST ORGANISATIONS

RYA Northwest

Yacht Clubs

Budworth Sailing Club
Clyde Cruising Club
Conway Yacht Club- Deganwy
North Wales Cruising Club -Conwy
North West Venturers Yacht Club- Including details of "Cruising Anglesey & North Wales Coast.
Pwllheli Sailing Club
Redesmere Sailing Club
Royal Anglesey Yacht Club
Royal Dee Yacht Club
Royal Welsh Yacht Club

Old Gaffers Association

Others

Plas Menai
Ocean Youth Trust Northwest - "Greater Manchester Challenge"
Irish Sea Offshore Racing Association
Wales WaterSports

European Centre for Mid-range Forecasts
JCOMM forecasts METAREAS I to XVI and Arctic
Meteo France (in French)
Meteo Consult (charging)(French and English))
RTE Ireland marine forecast
Proudman Institute Irish Sea forecasts
Proudman Institute Irish Sea wave heights
Met Office synoptic charts from weather.org
Windguru worldwide windsurfing weather

Marinecall details of contacts and charging

GENERAL WEATHER RESOURCES

YBW weather pages
Frank Singleton's Weather Page
Georg Muller's Weather Centre ---in German but the only source of free Metfax
Ant Veal's Weather Website - greatweather.co.uk
Dundee satellite images
National Data Buoys
Irish Data Buoys
MIDAS weather data display
Oceanweather weather and wave data
Coolwx weather data

TIDES

UKHO Easy Tide world-wide calculator 7 days free
YBW 14 day UK tides (Click 14 Day Tide Tables)
Proudman Institute UK predictions(7days)

SHOM world-wide calculator (in French)
Meteo Consult world-wide tides(in French)
fr.rec.bateaux - French tides(in French)

Proudman real-time tide heights around UK
Irish tides

sailwx.info
Tidal predictions worldwide and at future dates to 2037

HARBOURS & MARINAS

ENGLAND SOUTH COAST Ramsgate-Penzance
UK WEST COAST Padstow-Arisaig
UK EAST COAST Whitstable-The Wash
Grimsby-Inverness
NORTHERN FRANCE L'Aberach-Dunkirk
WEST FRANCE Brest-Hendaye
CHANNEL ISLANDS
IRELAND EAST Wexford-Larne

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