GLACIERE / OCEAN YOUTH TRUST - LINKS PAGE

Glaciere now proud to be at Liverpool Marina - Great bar and restaurant. For more information call CHRIS on 0151 707 6777 Fax: 0151 707 6070
e-mail: info@liverpoolmarina.co.uk (for general enqiries)
events@liverpoolmarina.co.uk (for functions, promotions & conferences)

We would like to give a great big thank you to Warbreck Engineering who over the few last week have done a fantastic job making our new mast band for our replacement masts. The company is a pleasure to deal with, really friendly staff and extremely knowledgeable professionals. They have been a great help to us. If you are looking to have any engineering work done, I would strongly recommend that you telephone Warbreck Engineering. Their telephone number is 0151 236 9494 and remember to say you saw them on the Glaciere site. 

This company is owned by Bob Carson who is a good friend of Daves. Dave is happy to recommend him. 

Dave and John are extremely helpful and can service you with all your safety equipment needs. Flares, Lifejackets, Life Rafts and any other associated to your safety needs. 

LAKE DISTRICT BOAT CLUB

Charter this luxury, fully equipped sports fishing motor yacht on the Costa Blanca for a fishing charter trip.Location - Guardamar del Segura, Spain

Hurricane & Storm Tracking

for the Atlantic & Pacific Ocean

CAPTAIN DAVE'S FAVOURITE WEBSITE

Dave has spent many hours studying this site. When you are sitting on an anchor at the edge of a Caribbean Island, you need to know were and when a hurricane is coming from. This is the site Dave visited most days.

company offering a comprehensive service for all diving medical needs at one location. With medical training in dive medicine and personal experience in diving, I'm able to offer advice and medicals/tests relating to diving.

This service is located at Green Lane Medical Centre, Tuebrook, Liverpool

Your medical diving enquiry should relate to either - Sports (recreational) diving or - Commercial (HSE approved) diving.

SAIL TRAINING

To find out more about sail training international and the forthcoming Tall Ships races click on logo to right. The Glaciere would like to wish all competitors of 2005 Tall Ships Race the best of luck and safe sailing. We look forward to meeting you all in Waterford.

Keep up to date with the weather by visiting the BBC Weather Site

THE HORIZON TRUST

The Horizon Trust is a charity which aims to promote personal development in young people aged between 16 and 25

TEAM ELLEN

All aboard the Glaciere wish Ellen the very best of luck and safe passage with all her challenges. Click photograph on right to visit TEAM ELLEN and keep up with her latest progress.

Remember to say you seen her on the Glaciere Website.

John Sutch Cranes Ltd is a Crane-Hire company based in the North-West of England with Depots in Liverpool and Manchester -

UK EPOXY

UK Epoxy have been of outstanding value to our project. Rob Hewitt is a very helpful guy and has certainly put a lot of effort into the Glaciere. If you are thinking of buying epoxy resin for any reason give Rob a ring on 01704 892364 Don't forget to mention you saw them on the Glaciere web site. 

MARINE TURBO'S

Click this link to go direct to Marine Turbo's web site. Many thanks to Mark for supporting the Glaciere project. If you can give Marine Turbo any business for supporting us please mention you saw them on the Glaciere site

''So you want to wash a small sailing boat''' Well his motto is no job too big no job too small .But I think his face says it all. for all kinds of maintenance at home,at work,at play give little Dave Eaton a ring.No job is too hard for him 0161 442 2720
''Remember to say you came from the Glaciere''

We would like to thank Mersey Maritime for all their help and support. Click on this link to see how Mersey Maritime are working hard to promote the maritime industry in our great city of Liverpool

Mick Lawler of Budjet Exhausts & Tyres at Great Homer Street has been a great supporter of us since we lifted the boat out of the water. He provides a fast and friendly service, has a good sense of humour and has very competitive prices. Mick said he would be happy to give all Glaciere sponsors and supporters a 10% discount off his normal selling prices so remember to tell him you came from Glaciere. His telephone number is 0151 207 3248

THE LAIRD FOUNDATION

The Laird Foundation from Birkenhead have been very good giving us twelve apprentice joiners for two months. Jim Teasdale who is the backbone of the Laird Foundation is a very honest, straightforward and hard working man has been very helpful to us since we first met through Mersey Maritime. Click this link to have a look at their organization. 

OYT East

OYT Scotland

OYT Ireland

OYT South

Weather

At sea everything is influenced by the weather - so sailors are obsessed by weather forecasts !

Some useful (and free) sources of met. data. (We don't promise that they work or are accurate !). Please at least check their date stamp before using them. Also, note that many have the same source and so are not independent predictions.

Good collection of detailed planning charts

Another good collection of planning charts

Ant Veal's UK Weather Centre Great place for comprehensive weather info

Current and predicted UK met office synoptics Skipper - try this first

Current and predicted UK met office synoptics Same as above - smaller images & different server

Theyr.net Excellent european-wide three day comprehensive forecast centre.

Current UK met office synoptic

Inshore waters Forecast

The Shipping Forecast

Frank Singleton's Weather Site A great sailing weather site with links to many sources of weather information.

Three day surface pressure animation Useful summary from the UK met office.

Online Weather Site

Weather Online !

Sailing - some general sailing links.

The Caernarfon harbour site contains useful information including the latest positions of the buoys on the bar - so one less excuse for not going into the straits this way.

Liverpool Yacht Club The local club in GMC's home port. Keelboat sailing on the Mersey straight from the city centre all year round.

Norfolk Boat The Norfolk Boat offer funds to young people from all walks of life to help them afford to sail on any sea going boats run by approved sail training organisations, including the Ocean Youth Trust.

ASTO - The Association of Sea Training Organisations - is an "umbrella" association which exists to represent the major sail training schemes in Great Britain.

Dave Beavan, an OYT skipper and expert gaffer, is running sailkenya which offers unique holidays in Kenya aboard a traditional swahili dhow. The company aims to work in an ethical way and by using a local dhow and a local skipper, your money is spent in the local economy, not on imported goods and labour. Secondly, by exploiting the reef for tourism, sailkenya compensate for the loss of fishing rights and help to conserve the unique marine biodiversity of the Kenyan coast.

North West Venturers Yacht Club is a cruising club active over much of the Irish sea and based in the Menai Straits. They produce the definitive pilot to the N. Wales and Anglesey coast and their site contains some good links of its own.

RYA The Royal Yachting Association.

RNLI The The Royal National Lifeboat Institution saves lives at sea.