This website is primarily dedicated to providing information about boating, in south Texas,

with emphasis on Laguna Madre and enviorns, with some occasional information on freshwater resources.

It is largely concerned with small boats, powered by sail, oar, paddle and pole.

It also contains information on some Scouting groups

Small Boats - - - - - Mid-sized Boats - - - - - To Mini Voyages illustrated trips. - - - - - Boat Building

Check out the Duckworks website. A great place for information on small boats.
Boat Events especially in Texas
Messabouts meetings of small boat sailors. - pages illustrating those in Texas for years 2003, 2004, 2005 organized by Duckworks Magazine.
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Navigation files. including magnetic compass,
        celestial navigation and celestial navigation without chronometers.

Books

Book Index page

on this website.
Interesting Books to Read - - - Title list with links to reviews - - - Author list with links
Films enjoyed Books on this Website and links to others

Books Owned lists

Family - - - - Art

    Vacation and Travels index
Family index file - - - - - - Family - - - - Self

National Public Radio - for Lower Rio Grande Valley Grassroots Public Radio RGV - help keep NPR programming available here.

.Grassroots Public Radio RGV . org website

Home in McAllen, Texas, USA
        North 26 deg 13' 54.1"
        West 98 deg 14' 13.5"
                expressed another way as N 26.231747 and W 98.236759

South Texas, McAllen area Animals - - - - - - South Texas, McAllen area Birds

Scouting information - Boy Scouts of America - Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, USA

McAllen (Memorial) Public Library history

Interesting LINKS to pages other places.

Map of the home cruising area.

Other maps covering the general area.
Topo McAllen area from MapTech

 
Texas - index page. - Information mostly about south Texas - McAllen - Hidalgo County and some surrounding area.

Some Health resources in Hidalgo County - - - Insulin Survivors - a Diabetes Support Group organized and run by a group of people who have diabetes, many Type 1 and some Type 2

NPR for LRGV supporting Grassroots Public Radio RGV a group dedicated to keeping a National Public Radio feed for the Lower Rio Grande Valley area - particularly Hidalgo, Cameron and Willacy Counties in deep south Texas.

To the Health Index page where you will find links to groups supporting good health, such as diabetes, alzheimers, Parkensons etc.

Sailing Charter Boat - Port Isabel - South Padre Island Time for Sailing.

R-pod 173 - Trailer

Laguna Madre Yacht Club located in Port Isabel, Texas.

Metric Conversion

Site Map old
STexBoat organization Dec 2016

Weekly calendars 2008 - 2009 - -

Weekly calendars 2006 - 2007 - - linear calendar 2008 -
- linear calendar 2009 - - linear calendar 2010 - - linear calendar 2011 - - - linear calendar 2012 leap year -
- linear calendar 2013 - - linear calendar 2014 - - linear calendar 2015 - - linear calendar 2016 leap year - -

Time and Date website good calendar creation website

Mona page projects

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Send an e-mail to owner/webmaster Gerard Mittelstaedt - - gmitt@ymail.com

Featured Link
            The Cornell Univ. MacCaulay Library of bird and animal sounds
presented by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. - an incredible effort... turn on your speakers.
after a few weeks this link will move from here to the links page on this site.

Joshua Slocum Society International - JSSI pages. (long distance sailboat voyaging)

Check out the McAllen Memorial Library, McAllen, Texas website. - ~ - McAllen Library - new domain

Line Drawings - classroom

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