C Links
Travel to Exotic Web Sites

Columbia-related Sites

If you own a Columbia 26 Mk II, then Blair Arden'sC-26 Mk II site is ground zero.

DAHLFIN II Suggested by Paul W. Esterle (C-10.7). Bonnie Dahl and her husband have owned a Columbia 10.7 since 1978. Bonnie is an author and has written books on cruising Lake Superior, GPS and Loran. They recently retired and sailed DAHLFIN II south. The web site is maintained by their son, Peter, and details their continuing trip to date.

The Unofficial Coronado Web Site Coronado was also owned by Whittaker, and some models were sold interchangeably as either Columbias or Coronados, with little or no design changes.

Yahoo hosts the Columbia Yacht Owners Association virtual boatyard. Email discussion group, photo vault, archives, FAQs, group events calendar, members' profiles, chat room & talk room.

Sailnet.com Check it out! A great sailing page and home of the other Columbia Yacht Owners Association e-mail discussion list and its archives, as well as our FTP site with hundreds of members' pictures!

C-50 Cruising Club Joe and Annie Bennet's site for the big boyz.

Stockton (CA) Sailing Club Home of the Stockton Columbia Challenger fleet and the C-5.5 Meter fleet.

New and Used Gear, Supplies and Services

Westerbeke Westerbeke home page; they bought Universal (Atomic Four).

Gougeon Bros/WEST System WEST System epoxies, etc.

Sailorman New and used gear.

Ocean Outfitters Marine Consignment Store Online Annapolis favorite.

Fawcett's in Annapolis.Great used gear.

Minney's Used Sails & Gear.Costa Mesa, Ca. Mecca for used, salvaged and surplus gear. A must-see if you're anywhere within SoCal.

West Marine.

Boat/US.

Ocean Marine Services Ocean Marine Services provides professional marine surveys, deliveries, and yacht management programs. Capt. Scott Thompson, AMS. C-40, hull #33, Bird

Marine Sanitation Systems It's no ones favorite topic, but there seems to be some good info here.

Magazines, etc.

Good Old Boat Finally, a great magazine for all of us classic plastic owners and fans.Highly recommended.

Cruising World CW mag's website.

Latitude 38 "A great West Coast sailing mag/paper." - Mike Keers

WoodenBoat WoodenBoat Magazine's site. Interesting stuff, but fiberglass is a four-letter word! Then again, so is "dry rot". They have a super online forum, with a searchable database, over 50,000 posts.

Yachting Magazine Host of the bulletin board where the seed for this all was planted back in '97.

Spinsheet "The best little rag on the Chesapeake Bay. "- Eric White

Weather, etc.

NOAA Home page for NOAA. View & download almost-real-time weather satellite images, weather info, etc.

Tide and Current Predictor

National Data Buoy Center National Weather Service data from weather buoys around the country.

Yacht Brokers, etc.

Sailing Index
TraderOnline
Yacht World
Boatnet
BoatQuest
Yachts for Sale

Links to Links, Other Stuff

So what to do about PWCs? (aka, "aquatic skeet").

Mark Rosenstein's Sailing Links.

Another Boating Link Page.

Alone One person, on a boat, around the world.

Gypsy Rover Eric's friend Dave's schooner for charter.

Sailing Index List of links to HUNDREDS of other sites, owners' orgaanizations, etc.

Cruising info and Links.

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