Saildocs.com
Internet services for the bandwidth-impaired
Saildocs is an email-based document-retrieval system for the delivery of text-based Internet documents either on request or by subscription. Saildocs can deliver web pages (including text weather forecasts, and provides subscriptions for automatic delivery. Additionally Saildocs provides custom grib weather-data files per request from data downloaded from NOAA/NCEP and other sources, see "gribinfo"
Saildocs offers text-based document retrieval and subscription services for offshore sailors, adventurers, missionaries and others who must somehow live their lives without fiber, DSL or even 56Kbaud dialup connections. There are currently two services offered, a document retrieval service which will return documents from the Internet or our own files, and a subscription service which will send Internet documents (for example weather reports) at scheduled intervals.
Saildocs is supported by the Sailmail Association (www.sailmail.com) and can be used by anyone who agrees to the terms and conditions (below).
Click here for more information about Saildocs, or send (a blank) email to info@saildocs.com
For information on requesting grib weather-data files via email, click here or send (a blank) email to gribinfo@saildocs.com. Available forecast and model info is available here or send (a blank) email to gribmodels@saildocs.com
For information about our grib-viewer click here.
Other useful links:
SailMail (email via SSB marine radio)