Links (they may be useful or just for fun)

Associations, etc  
RYA Royal Yachting Association
uksail.com Links to clubs nationwide
ISAF International Sailing Federation
NSSA National School Sailing Association
ECSW East Coast Sailing Week information
NERR Nerr website for rating information
NECRA NECRA website
Classes  
Mirror UK Mirror site
UK Laser Association Laser Association Website
Devoti Sailing Hi Perfomance Racing
Laser SB 3 Official website of the Laser SB 3Class Association
Musto Skiff Musto Performance Skiff Association Website
Barron & Smithers 18ft Skiff Follow Ian Turnbull and the Barron & Smithers team on the skiff website. The photo gallery is worth a look even if you are not interested in high performance sailing.
Team Oyster John Robertson, Hannah Stodel and Steve Thomas's major sponsor. This site has all the details of the current campaign as well as being a great web log so if you ever want to know where John is just check out the Team Oyster site.
Europe Europe Class Association website
Sonata The award winning Sonata Class website
Fireball Fireball Class website
Topper Topper Class website (ITCA)
RS Classes All RS Classes can be found on this site
Media  
Yachts and Yachting Yachts and Yachting magazines website
Sail Power For sailing news ~ see also www.thedailysail.com and www.sailingsource.com
Sailing World Website of Sailing World magazine
Local Clubs  
Keilder Water Sailing Club Keilder Water Sailing Club website
Royal Northumberland Yacht Club Royal Northumberland Yacht Club website
Whitby Yacht Club Whitby Yacht Club website
Wear Boating Wear Boating Association website
Weather  
Great Weather Site Links for all your weather forecasting needs - See also www.geocities.com ~ www.weatheronline.co.uk ~ www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ or www.met-office.gov.uk/ ~ Wind Guru
Great Local Weather Site Data from a weather station close to Souter Point, includes a webcam and live wind direction and strength. Also includes an updating desktop screen so you can watch the conditions all day. See also
www.elsom-cook.com/longsands/index.pl Webcam that updates every 2 minutes of the sea at Longsands Tynemouth. checking the sea conditions.
Local Area  
Port of Sunderland Information about the Port of Sunderland
City of Sunderland Information about the locality
RNLI Lifeboat Station The site of our local RNLI Lifeboat Station with information about the lifeboats past and present and much much more
Marine Activity Centre Details of what is happening at Sunderland Marina and Adventure (The MAC)

Premier Travel Inn

Premier Travel Inn have three sites in easy reach of the club
Chandlers/Shopping/Miscellaneous  
BoatDistrict A free boat trip directory called BoatDistrict. There are over a thousand UK boat trips
(including sailing) listed at BoatDistrict.  I believe it is one of the largest boat trip listings in the UK.  They have recently added a links page dedicated to Associations and Clubs, where visitors can access links and descriptions.
Accommodation Listing A list of local accommodation including a link to the City of Sunderland's own website where you will find even more possibilities
Sailing Accommodation A free directory of Accommodation where sailors can search via
Sailing Club or Sailing region and it gives sailor friendly facilities - very usefull when you are travelling to a different venue
Caution - Water! An interesting looking site which 
includes a sailing club finder with some useful tips on rules
Storrar Marine Storrar Marine - so much more than a chandlery - view our site to see what we can do for you
Ovington Boats Ovington Boats
Rope Works See Gerry McGill at work - he isn't always playing boats and may be just the man to make some smart rails for your garden deck
Trident UK Trident UK - The Dinghy shop on the web
Ian Turnbull aka Bovs Boats Ian Turnbull can supply specialist carbon products and tapered ropes for sailors who demand the very best.
EC Fibreglass A local (South Shields) supplier of fibre glass and allied products. A discount may be available to SYC members during 2006. We stock Polyester Resins and Gelcoat, Epoxy Resin systems and all the Reinforcements and tools that are used within the fibreglass industry, such as Chopped Strand Matting / Woven Roving / Glass Cloth / Surface Tissue / Diolen and much more.
Teak Teak for Boats
Ships Particulars Search for Ships Particulars MMSI CALL SIGN "Boat Owner" etc
Chart Updates Website for the Admiralty - Notice to Mariners
Get Knotted! Brilliant site full of info on knots, splicing, etc - its an anglers site but they welcome visitors
Animated Knots An informative and fun site found by Alan Dixon
Gift Ideas Buy a "J" Class Yacht for much less than you thought
World Leisure Wear Follow the "Contessa 32 for some cool sailing embroidery
Marlab A company owned and run by an ex-pat Sunderland lad for the design and build of remote controlled work boats for surveillance, environmental protection, SAR and survey. My latest project though is an electric-driven aluminium boat for teenagers and kids (Roskva).