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UK Rivers Guidebook Community Pages
From where you can find out about new hazards, access issues, link to the guidebook descriptions and read a huge amount of general ranting
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439 |
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Coastguard marine safety broadcast times
Lists the times, frequencies and antennas used to broadcast marine safety information (including weather forecasts) for UK waters.
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252 |
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Coastguard Rescue Coordination Centres
Numbers to contact the coastguard by phone (rather than marine VHF).
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230 |
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Admiralty EasyTide
Six-days-ahead tidal forecasts for many stations, not just in UK
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228 |
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National Oceanography Centre Tidal Predictions
28-day ahead tidal forecasts for a limited number of stations, but most of the useful ones
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210 |
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Met Office Inshore Waters Forecast
Inshore waters forecast more relevant than shipping forecast for sea kayakers
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222 |
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List of Lights
The Admiralty's Light List is not available online but this one from the US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is an excellent substitute. Very useful for night paddles !
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407 |
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Kayak Building Forum
An extremely useful place to ask questions if you are contemplating building a sea kayak, or just to look through photos of those others have built. Inspiring!
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225 |
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Scottish Sea Kayaking
Fantastic photographic resource from Douglas Wilcox
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432 |
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Geograph Britain and Ireland
A community project to provide geographically useful photographs of everywhere in the UK. With over 2.3 million photos, it's ideal for finding pictures of obscure rivers or coasts
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230 |
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WeatherOnline
Rainfall last six hours. Some stations have options to show hourly rates, and data going back over the last 24 or 36 hours
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270 |
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SEPA River Levels
One site for most of the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency's river gauges. Usually updated every 24 hours
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231 |
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Dam Release River Information
Scottish Rivers with dam releases.Useful predictions for dam releases on paddleable rivers (not all are on a regular schedule)
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260 |
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Powerhouse Marine, Derwenthaugh Marina
10% discount to members
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262 |
