North Carr Light Vessel

Contact the Maritime Volunteer Service, MVS Tay,

Bob Richmond - 01382 542516 mobile - 07554 453535

Click for aerial views of the Tay

Click for River Tay Dolphins

MVS Tay gratefully acknowledges the support and assistance of - The Port of Dundee (Forth Ports), Mr. Clive McKeag, Awards for All Scotland, The D.C. Thomson Charitable Trust, H.M. Revenue and Customs The Bell's Nautical Trust, The Tay Charitable Trust, The St. Katharine's Fund, The Robertson Trust,  The Alexander Moncur Trust,  The Mathew Trust,

Some links which may be of interest-

Badger Booking Info. and Gallery

For boat trips on Badger and Marigot - check the schedule, dates and trips already planned. (Remember to phone 01382 542516 for the actual booking though.)

www.tayrivertrips.org

North Carr -

The North Carr Lightship's dedicated website. Info on her history and her current restoration.

www.northcarr.org.uk

Broughty Ferry Lifeboat -

This site is a must for anyone involved with boats, anyone interested in the Tay, local history or anyone else for that matter. Check out their call out logs, read their history, good picture gallery too. This is one of the most called out lifeboats in Britain.

http://www.broughtyferrylifeboat.gothere.uk.com/index.htm

Ye Amphibious Ancients Bathing Association - (Of Broughty Ferry)

www.yeaaba.btik.com

Maritime Volunteer Service -

This is the national website - http://www.mvs.org.uk/

Weather Forecasts -

The best weather forecasts we've seen for the local area (covers all UK) - http://uk.weather.com/

Navigation Site

Excellent site about navigating but remember it's American and their system of buoyage is radically different - BEWARE -       http://home.att.net/~agligani/navigation/navigate.html

Getting your green captain mixed up with your red parrot?

The ultimate site for MNEMONICS anoracks. Actually a very extensive list of mnemonics and stuff for remembering those hard-to-remember whatsits -    http://lever.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/mnemonics.html

Celestial Navigation. If your GPS breaks down in the middle of the night and someone's nicked the alcohol from your compass...try...

A short guide to Celestial Navigation. Great info. but not for the fainthearted.-  http://home.t-online.de/home/h.umland/page2.htm

This site is vast and covers a multitude of subjects

Sailnet - another American site. It's quite wordy but it contains a huge amount of info. Remember that their buoyage system is back to front (left to right/port to starboard) - It's not their fault. Hell, they mean well, and it's in English too. - http://www.sailnet.com/collections/Seamanship/

Dedicated to the understanding and wellbeing of whales, dolphins and porpoises and their habitat

Cetacean Research and Rescue Unit - http://www.crru.org.uk/

British Marine Divers Life Rescue

Good site showing their work in rescuing whales, dolphins and seals around Britain. Our Gareth Norman's a member of this organisation. - http://www.bdmlr.org.uk/pages/main.html

British Marine Life

Well illustrated, informative site - http://www.glaucus.org.uk/

For Cryptozoologists

And weirdos. Hi guys!

http://www.bigcats.org/

Wombats

If you're tired of Wombats you're tired of life.

http://www.wombat.echidna.id.au/animals/wombat1.htm

St. Andrews

Well worth a look if your're visiting St.Andrews or its hinterland.

www.visit-standrews.co.uk

St. Andrews (2)

Another good site for St.Andrews - St Andrews Tourist Information office

www.standrews.co.uk

Discovery Point -

Based around the fine vessel RRS. Discovery. Spend time on board the ship and find out more about the cutting edge of exploration in the last remaining wilderness early last century

http://www.rrsdiscovery.com/

Verdant Works -

Dundee Jute mill. European Industrial Museum of the year winner.

www.verdantworks.com

MVS Thanet

MVS City of London Unit

The City of London Unit is based at HMS President near Tower Bridge. Click on their website -

Satellite Imagery -

http://local.live.com/ - click on "Aerial" - Better than Google Earth in that it has high resolution pictures of the Tay right up to Perth and most of the River Earn.

MVS Tay gratefully acknowledges the support and assistance of H. M. Revenue and Customs, The Port of Dundee (Forth Ports) The D. C. Thomson Charitable Trust, The Bell's Nautical Trust, Mrs. M. Robertson-Black, The Tay Charitable Trust, The St. Katherine's Fund, The Robertson Trust,  The Alexander Moncur Trust, Historic Scotland,  The Mathew Trust, Mr. Clive McKeag