Important - Please read - What can I do on this site?

[rusty]

Wow! I think you will find many great features. Let's see if I can go through some of the major functions and features.


Discussion Forums - Talk about your favorite boating subjects.
Photo Gallery - Post pictures and videos'
Product Reviews New! - Review your favorite (or least favorite) products, services, marinas, and places to go.
News - Tell us what's going on. Post your latest business or club news.
Calendar of Events - Post upcoming events for your business, group, or club.
Classified Ads - Want to clean out your boat or garage? Sell your extra stuff here.
Weather New! - Get detailed weather information for the U.S. and Canada.
Tide Predictions - Get tide information for just about anywhere in the world!
And much more ...


http://www.nwboating.net/images/arrow.gif The largest section is the FORUMS. Everything else comes from them. We have forums for a variety of subjects related to boating nd travel in the Northwest and British Columbia.

To enter the FORUMS, simply click on the button on the top of the main page, or select a subject in the current discussions.

The FORUMS are broken up into four main sections. The Northwest Boating Network, the Power Boating section, a section for Sailing, and the Crew Sheet.

Within each of these sections are many forums on a variety of subjects from news and boat repair, to destinations, tips and tricks, and items for sale.

POST questions, comments, observations, ideas, knowledge, pictures, stories, etc. in our forums. You can post replies to questions, comments, observations, etc.

Did you have a particularly enjoyable trip or an interesting experience? Post it in the forums. Did you find a wonderful destination? Tell us all about it. Post pictures on a variety of subjects.

http://www.nwboating.net/images/arrow.gif Post boating NEWS. News stories can be about anything related to boating in the northwest or boats in general.

http://www.nwboating.net/images/arrow.gif Do you want to post pictures of your latest trip, or your boat? This is the place to do it. We have added a very powerful PHOTO GALLERY to the site. For more info click here (http://www.nwboating.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=77).

http://www.nwboating.net/images/new.gif Check out the PRODUCT AND SERVICE REVIEWS. Tell us what you think. Add reviews of your favorite (or least favorite) products, services, marinas, and places to go.

http://www.nwboating.net/images/arrow.gif Find out what is going on in our CALENDAR OF EVENTS section. Post events for you business, school, club, or owners group.

http://www.nwboating.net/images/arrow.gif The new Classified Ads (http://www.nwboating.net/classifieds.php) section provides the ability to buy and sell boating related items. List your extra stuff along with a couple of pictures.

http://www.nwboating.net/images/new.gifCheck out our new WEATHER (http://www.nwboating.net/wx/index.php) section for detailed information about upcoming weather in your area. U.S. weather info and maps is provided by NOAA. Canadian weather comes from Environment Canada.

http://www.nwboating.net/images/arrow.gif We've added Xtide (http://www.nwboating.net:8080), the popular tide predictor, to the site. Get tide information for just about anywhere you are going. Disclaimer - NOT TO BE USED FOR NAVIGATION. Consult an official published source for navigation information.

http://www.nwboating.net/images/arrow.gif Submit your favorite WEB LINKS (http://www.nwboating.net/links.php) for other interesting web sites.

http://www.nwboating.net/images/arrow.gif DOWNLOAD (http://www.nwboating.net/download.php) interesting and useful software, and ... submit links to your favorites.

http://www.nwboating.net/images/arrow.gif Play Chess (http://www.nwboating.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=Chess&file=index). Why is this here? Why not, I guess? Play chess with just about anyone you want. Play multiple public and private games at the same time. Just like Bobby Fisher!

http://www.nwboating.net/images/arrow.gif Communicate with other members through e-mail and private messaging. You can arrange rendevous with groups. You can post your club news and information. The list goes on.

We'll be adding more features as we get the ideas and the time.

Feel free to explore our site and submit your posts. Remember this is a dynamic site. The content and information comes from the members. THAT'S YOU! :)

[RAD DAD]

I like your site, I have just stumbled on to it while trying to find out what happened to nwboating.com

The forums are a great idea, the tide information a great idea, the reviews, classifieds, ect.

Something that might make this website even better is to find out who owned nwboating.com and if they are out of the website game, get their content and repost it here. It had excellent information on NW cruising destinations, with pictures, small charts, and so forth as well as information on things available at destinations. Every time you opened the main page a new "featured destination" with picture and link for more info would pop up. Adding all of that content to what you have here would make this a truly excellent one stop NWBOATING resource page.
Also, links to various boat brokers would be good as well, and you could probably get in contact the with various NW boat dealers and arrange to have reciprocal link postings, which would benefit them by getting their site more hits, and of course the same for this site. The more sites you can get linked here and the more sites you can have link to you the more traffic you will get, bringing in more users, which will of course increase the participation.

[rusty]

Well ... Early on ... a couple of years ago ... the folks at nwboating.COM offered to sell me their site.

But, since I don't really make any money off this site, I was not inclined to pay for their content.

Now that they have closed up, maybe the price would be a bit better. :) They did have some great photos and destination information.

We do have a section of the site for web links and have had many contributors.

Take a look at the Reviews section. We thought that would be a popular section of the site, but it has not reeived much interest. Gotta work on that ...

I am dangerously close to updating all the software on the site and changing the look a bit.

Thanks for the comments!

Rusty

[davisboating]

I found your site the same way Rad Dad did. I was hoping to find a little more activity on the forums. Hope it picks up. Nice site.

[Rob D]

The site was brought to my attention by a friend on one of the other boards or in a chat room.

I'll post those links in another thread.

I didn't realize that www.nwboating.com had gone down. Like others I had gone to that site to check out areas that I was planning to visit.

[Tommysbug]

What I liked about nwboating.com was the destination sites. Not only did they give you a picture and map but they gave you chart info. Maybe this site can start that. I am the co-pilot and do all the charting for our trips and it really helps me to know where we are going and how to get there.