Member Notices

Manhattan Sailing Club members can post notices on this page as a method of communicating with other members. You are encouraged to share your knowledge by posting information. To post a note, please email the text to mike@myc.org.

Richard Woronoff writes, "My racing captain, is no longer in NYC, and thus I'm trying to get onto a Wednesday Racing team. I have had many years of experience in every position as crew. I have also been a Fleet Captain for many years. I have my own spinnaker sail and am able to be at the Battery Park dock early. I am very consistent in being available for every Wednesday racing night. I can be reached at 212-691-2622 or at kaptainrich@aol.com" Feb 2010

Wes Freeburg writes, "Official NOAA Nautical charts for free online! Check out: http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/Raster/index.htm. The site also has free viewers. In the United States, all official nautical paper charts produced by NOAA's Office of Coast Survey (OCS) are available for download. A fundamental tool of marine navigation, NOAA's Raster Navigational Charts are produced by scanning at high resolution. NOAA adds data describing the chart, its datum, projection, and they can be updated with Notices to Mariners. I recommend charts designated 12334, 12335 and 12341 for "studying" our sailing area." Feb 2010

Wes Freeburg writes, "NOAA and the Office of Coast Survey has a nifty, free online chart viewer that allows a sailor to view up-to-date charts on the Internet to use for planning or analysis tools. See: http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/OnLineViewer.html and http://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/12327.shtml Feb 2010

Ken Wieber writes, "For Sale: Murray Hill one bedroom apartment with walk-in closet, renovated kitchen and bath in a clean and friendly co-op building. For more information check out the New York Times listing: http://realestate.nytimes.com/sales/detail/253-NS100105642" Jan 2010

Wayne Turett writes, "GARMIN GPSMAP® 76Cx Color Mapping GPS, Americas bought new for $350, currently selling for $249.99 USD at West Marine, offered at $200. In perfect condition with super strong batteries. Have Eastern Caribbean digital charts on microSD card. Make me an offer for both. Wayne Turett, 917 612 9086, wturett@turettarch.com" June 2009

TJ Shea reports, "Due to the reconfiguring of the pilot area and the deepening of the Ambrose Channel (which extends the channel seaward), the buoys from the old Ambrose Light thru the upper Hudson Bay/River have been renumbered. NOAA has updated their electronic charts and will be publishing paper charts in March 2009. For us, Buoy 29 is now 33 and Buoy 31 is now 35. NOAA’s on-line chart views is at http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/OnLineViewer.html. Their download site is at: http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/Raster/index.htm (raster charts) or http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/enc/index.htm (electronic navigation charts)." Nov 2008

Ian Fuchsloch writes, “Just recently came across the following webpage - http://demo.geogarage.com/noaa – which basically superimposes NOOA and Google earth maps. Thought that it might be something interesting to add to the “links” section. June 2008

Rahul Vemula writes, "I wanted to submit an useful link to be placed on the website. www.tideapp.com. This is a website is designed to be accessed particularly through the Iphone (or any computer which runs the Safari web browser) which has tide predictions for hundreds of locations through the united states. To get tides for NY Harbor, one must simply open up www.tideapp.com on the Safari Web Browser on the iPhone. Then click on States, select New York, scroll town to "T" and select "The Battery - New York Harbor." Under the New Jersey tab, there are also tide predictions for locations further north which may be useful to members sailing out of Hoboken. I know that many our fellow members of the club have the iPhone so I thought that this would be useful. Enjoy! May 2008

Wesley Freeburg writes, "Sailmaker UK Halsey has released an excellent Man-Overboard training video, depicting crew overboard recover techniques when under Spinnaker. See http://www.ukhalsey.com/LearningCenter/mob.asp. You'll probably need to give them an e-mail address for access. Well worth it!" May 2006

Wesley Freeburg has updated the Crew Overboard description available on our web-site under "Club Info" - "Using Club Boats" based on the results of testing done at the Crew Overboard Symposium 2005, in San Francisco, CA. See http://www.myc.org/Using%20Club%20Boats/crew_overboard.htm for a detailed discussion of these important maneuvers. Dec. 2005

Here's an incredible website for local river and harbor charts going back to the 1800's. http://anchor.ncd.noaa.gov/ Click on New York and enjoy!

Notices to Members