Useful Links

Boat Design

http://www.boatdesign.net/

Learn to Sail - good videos explaining various aspects of trimming the sails

http://www.sailnet.com/forums/sailnet-how-tos/38015-giuliettas-sailing-instruction-videos.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GDro9i1ye0&feature=player_embedded#at=387

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0f8iVdaRIA&feature=player_embedded#at=289

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxg4k6c3XFo&feature=player_embedded#at=435

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbjwP6F_N9s&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C31nGzO54O4&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0wfGzhlRhI&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwySzZR1ZQ8&feature=player_embedded

Learn to Sail - Sailing tutorials

http://www.schoolofsailing.net/currents.html

http://www.sailnet.com/forums/general-discussion-sailing-related/70748-anything-better-than-tell-tales-4.html

http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=navRulesContent - rules of sailing

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0VLXORumEF4C&oi=fnd&pg=PP11&dq=sailing+polars&ots=Bk8zZGHyck&sig=7nELEazZOjqGexkfV-z9SueEjng#v=onepage&q=sailing%20polars&f=false - the physics of sailing for yachtsman

http://books.google.com/books?id=08uvkDasf-IC&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=determine+layline+sailing&source=bl&ots=NSOBI7tMwZ&sig=yUvJTb5RxFY3h3Pw0vcMN0QXHlY&hl=en&ei=h-ZlTcSsD4ussAOWqfj7BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=determine%20layline%20sailing&f=false - Getting Started in Sailboat Racing

http://www.ockam.com/tech8.html - VERY good materials on sailing telemetry

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=w-WuY0nhnO8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=%22Championship+Tactics%22&ots=yweuficQBA&sig=0MSUMjVbhlLLfkvTRPwIxxFVP2o#v=onepage&q&f=false = - How Anyone Can Sail Faster, Smarter, and Win Race

Autonomous Sailboats in the Media

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/6976230.stm

Race Across the Atlantic

http://www.microtransat.org/opensource.php?PHPSESSID=44da7d5b301c46c5e9df7d48a3383168

controller on sailboat - Forum

http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1241392822

http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/boat-navigation-with-adrupilot

http://diydrones.com/notes/ArduPilot

http://dronepedia.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

Ultrasonic Range Sensor

http://www.kerrywong.com/2011/01/22/a-sensitive-diy-ultrasonic-range-sensor/

Sonar Ruler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC_asaQ7C5w

Academic Papers cover Autonomous Sailing

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=147900

http://www.ockam.com/tech8.html

Groups building Autonomous Boats

http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~jca/fast/en/index.php

http://ramboat.blog.co.uk/2009/10/30/autohelm-looks-like-it-works-7277516/

http://www.element-14.com/community/groups/arduino?view=video

http://letsmakerobots.com/node/21098

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/ardupilot-goes-into-the-water

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/autonomous-sailing-with?xg_source=activity&id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A179829&page=2#comments

http://www.rmc.ca/aca/me-gm/ame-agm/gd-ag-eng.asp

DIYdrones Links

http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/ardupilot-boat-requirements

Wikipedia - Definitions of Related Material

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_prediction_program

Wind Vane

http://www.fascinatingelectronics.com/documents/WEA-WVKIT-A.pdf

Compass

http://www.bitartist.org/2009/03/digital-compass-with-avr-arduino.html

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/08/arduino-digital-compassin.html

http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1258944092

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8656

Winch - for applying the system to an atonomous full sized boat

http://roamingdrone.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/diy-servo-with-arduino-dc-motor-and-potentiometer/

http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/119

http://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=14762

http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Controlled-Relay-Box/step6/Test-with-an-Arduino/

Arduino Mega - details

http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/home?tm=6

Arduino - learning to use the arduino

http://tronixstuff.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/getting-started-with-arduino-chapter-zero/

XBEEs

FIO (Arduino and XBEE) door, doorbell and others monitor « John's Ramblings

http://john.crouchley.com/blog/archives/424

http://funnel.cc/Hardware/FIO?userlang=en - Fio Funnel

http://arduino.cc/blog/2010/09/14/xbee-environment-data-collector/

http://www.brokencitylab.org/blog/arduino-php-lcds-xbees-tactical-texting-in-public-spaces/

Electronics - general tutorials

http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/

http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/152

Soling 1M

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ArduSkipper

The point of this blog is to document the progress of building an autonomously piloted sailboat.

I'll be using a Soling 1M R/C sailboat for my platform.

DIYdrones.com has a plethora of information on the ArduPilot which is an autopilot system for airplanes and helicopters. I'll be trying to adapt their system to a sailboat.