OAK BAY SAILING SCHOOL
Victoria BC Canada - at Oak Bay Marina

Additional useful boating links

Pleasure Craft Operator's card           The card is mandatory now!

Practice test for the PCOC                     One example of a PCOC test. When you are ready to take a test, -                                                      contact Oak Bay Sailing School. You can take the test at the Marina.

PCOC Study guide
                                     A  sample study guide


Animated knots!
                                          Watch your knots tying themselves!

Big wave Dave                                             Local weather  forecasts and webcams

Weather forecast                                       Haro Strait, by the weather office.                                 

Current graphs  
                               Nice current table graphs from Dairiki.org

Crew Overboard                               Final report from 2005 international symposium on Crew Overboard *

Survival techniques                         
So you want to sail to Hawaii?

Victoria to Maui Race                      
The information site for the Vic Maui Race
   
           
Race rescue   
                                A sobering story about a rescue during the 2010 Southern Straits race.                       
Cal 20 tuning                                   Interesting info on class racing and tuning - North Sails

Cal 20 Class Association                 Helpful info for Cal 20 owners

Coastal Navigation                           Useful view of Coastal navigation principles and techniques
                                                      N.B. Notice differences between IALA regions 'A' and 'B''

A windfall of sailing links                  A wide variety of interesting and useful  sailing information links