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Mystic Seaport
The Museum of America and the Sea.
North Carolina Maritime Museum
Driven by its mission to preserve and interpret all aspects of North Carolina's rich maritime heritage through educational exhibits, programs and field trips.
Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding
Teaching and preserving fine wooden boatbuilding and other traditional maritime crafts.
Smiths Master Index of Maritime Museum Sites
Click on a location name to find a maritime museum website - by the author of "Maritime Museums of North America."
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Search this site and uncover maritime treasures.
The Umiak Adventure School
Workshops for people interested in building traditional kayaks, umiaks, canoes, and paddles.
The Antique and Classic Boat Society
Bringing people together with a common interest in historic, antique and classic boats.
The Antique Outboard Motor Club
In 1866, the first outboard device was patented. Since that time, over 160 manufacturers have entered the industry - few remain. Names like Caille, Waterman, Walnut, Lockwood, Motcomo, Columbian, Gray and Ferro are all forgotten except for AOMCI: a world-wide, non-profit organization devoted to people who are interested in antique outboards, their preservation, and their restoration.
The Century Boat Club
Dedicated to the wooden Century Boat enthusiast, the Century Boat Club offers a forum to exchange ideas, ask and offer advice, and share experiences with hundreds of other Century boat owners.
The Chris-Craft Antique Boat Club
Lyman Boat Owners Association
Today, the LBOA boasts a membership of 500+ members across the country, maintains a web site, publishes a quarterly newsletter and coordinates and publicizes LBOA rendezvous across the country.
Lyman Boat Society of North America
Sharing fellowship, information, experience and exchange of ideas for those with an interest in Lyman boats.
Master Mariners Benevolent Society
Dedicated to fostering participation in yachting and the preservation of well designed, properly constructed and well maintained classic and traditional wooden sailing craft.
Museum Small Craft Association
A group of highly motivated people involved in the study and preservation of traditional small craft. Membership represents a diversity of professions, including museum professionals, historians, archaeologists, and academics. All members share a common interest in boat conservation and restoration, skills preservation, boat documentation, small craft history and interpretation, and academic research.
National Maritime Historical Society
NMHS began in 1963 as a group of maritime enthusiasts working to save the bark Kaiulani and return her to the US from the Philippines. While that effort proved unsuccessful, the group recognized the broader need for an organization to serve the cause of raising the maritime awareness of the American people.
Sailing Associations and Federations
Sea Scouts of America
A Sea Scout I promise to do my best: To guard against water accidents; To know the location and proper use of the lifesaving devices on every boat I board; To be prepared to render aid to those in need; To seek to preserve the motto of the sea, Women and children first. Learn more.
Traditional Small Craft Association
Working to preserve and continue the living traditions, skills, lore, and legends surrounding working and pleasure watercraft whose origins predate the marine gasoline engine.
The Wooden Canoe Heritage Association
For the traditional North American canoe.
Bahamas Dinghies
Small Boat Journal article.
Boat Safety & Handling
Boating Safety
Coast Guard Office of Boating Safety
Commander Bob's Boating Safety Notebook
United States Power Squadrons
Home of America's boating course
Boatbuilder Magazine
The journal of boat design and construction for the amateur boat builder and the professional custom builder.
By The Sea
Online boating magazine: By-The-Sea is everything boats - information for boaters including boats for sale, feature articles/stories, message boards, boat builders, boat dealers and more.
Celestial Navigation
Bill Myers' Guide
Celestial Navigation Net
Starpath
Florida State University Program in Underwater Archaeology
Underwater Links
Universities with programs in Underwater Archaeology; Institutes, organization's, and Government Agencies; Archaeological Sites, and Individual Shipwrecks; Museums; Maritime History; Historic Ships, Reconstructions, and Restorations; Shipwreck Databases, Indices, and Lists; and more!
International Maritime Signal Flags
Definitions, and a simulator for practicing your knowledge.
Messing About in Boats Magazine
"In an age of information superhighways, Messing About In Boats is a dirt road linking backyard Noahs, would-be circumnavigators, steamboat restorers and weekend racers. It embraces virtually anything that floats!"
Maritime History on the Internet
A site that guides visitors in methods of doing maritime history research on the internet.
Mark Rosenstein's Sailing Page
Tall Ships, Mailing Lists. Netnews Groups. Tales of ordinary sailing adventures! Sailing Books, Videos, Magazines, Software, Bookstores and Publishers. Online Sailing Texts. Sailboat Designers, Plan Resources, and Classification Societies. Maritime History. Traditional Boating. Maritime Archaeology. Maritime Museums Online. Colleges offering maritime and naval related degrees. And much more!
The Mother of All Maritime Links
Boatbuilding ... kayaks ... maritime archaeology ... navigating ... vikings ... yacht clubs - this site has it all!
National Small Boats Calendar
An online database of organizations and events of interest to the nautically-minded.
Old Marine Engine
A resource for antique inboard marine engine enthusiasts.
Rec.Boats.Building
Boat building newsgroup.
Ropers Knots Page
Everything you wanted to know about knot-tying!
Schoonerman
A site for you if you love the sight of the schooner on the sea. If you are looking for information on a schooner, brig, brigantine, bark or fully rigged tall ship, start your search here. Visit with us these tall ships of yesterday and meet the seafarers that sailed them.
Sea Shanties
International Shanty and Seasong Association
Shanties and Sea Songs
Shanties and Sea Songs
Songs of the Sea: Tunes, Lyrics & Information
Ultimate Page of Sailing Links
WoodenBoat Magazine
The magazine for wooden boat owners, builders, and designers.
American Victory Mariners Memorial and Museum Ship: (Tampa) The SS American Victory will be the first restored Victory ship located anywhere other than California. She will be the only museum ship of its type in the southeast U.S. and the only floating maritime museum in Florida.
Chapman School of Seamanship: (Stuart) Now in its fourth decade of operation, the Chapman School of Seamanship was founded by the late Glen D. Castle, a mariner, and Charles F. Chapman, legendary editor of Motor Boating & Sailing Magazine and author of the "Boater's Bible," Piloting, Seamanship & Small Boat Handling.
East Martello Towers Gallery and Museum: (Key West) The East Martello Towers Gallery and Museum, designed after the nearly impregnable coastal martello (watchtowers in Italy), the East Martello fort was never completed and never saw hostile action. Today its casemates, citadel, and courtyard are home to a vast collection of Key West and Keys' artifacts and historical records as well as military memorabilia.
Florida Oceanographic Society
Dedicated to protecting preserving and restoring Florida's ocean and coastal ecosystems through education, research and personal stewardship.
Florida Photographic Collection
A nationally recognized component of the Florida State Archives containing more than 850,000 photographs, and approximately 2,500 movies and video tapes. Over 91,000 of the photographs have been scanned and placed on the searchable website. The collection spans a wide range of visual images from copies of mid 15th century maps to current photographs.
Florida's Underwater Archaeological Preserves
A statewide system of underwater parks featuring shipwrecks and other historic sites.
Gilbert's Bar House of Refuge and Elliott Museum, Martin County Historical Society: Gilberts Bar House of Refuge Museum in Stuart, FL, has a history of more than 100 years, during which time many ships wrecked and many more sailors were saved. Set on the rocky coast of Hutchinson Island, the House of Refuge is the oldest building in Martin County and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Visit the Keeper's house, boat house and the deck overlooking the Atlantic.
Historical Museum of Southern Florida: (Miami) The museum houses the John C. Harrison Collection of over 350 outboard engines and other maritime displays.
Jacksonville Maritime Museum: (FL) The Jacksonville Maritime Museum Society, Inc. focuses on the nautical history of the St. Johns River and the Port of Jacksonville. Its a museum in transition with good information to be gained through this website.
Key West Lighthouse Museum & Keepers Quarters: (FL) Housed in a beautiful keepers home with a lighthouse in its front yard in this away-from-the-water site.
Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society: (FL) The Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society and Museum bring you the essence of the Age of Discovery in Key West, FL. From the late fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, Europeans explored what was to them a whole "New World". Their exploits, their commerce and the havoc they wreaked by both accident and design on the native inhabitants of the Americas all have their echoes in the artifacts in our collection.
Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse (FL) Night-after-night from 1887 to 1970 this tall sentinel of brick and granite flashed its faithful warning "to the men who go down to the sea in ships."
Sierra Club, Loxahatchee Group, Florida Chapter
Information on protecting - and exploring - South Florida's watery wilderness.
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