Resources from 'Single click' mashup marine weather, tides & observations.

Marine Weather Guide - Map & description of Environment Canada’s Marine Weather Services for the Pacific Coast (pdf).
Environment Canada - THE resource for Canadian land and marine weather.
Guide to marine weather forecasts by Environment Canada.
BIGWAVEDAVE.CA - weather information for windsurfing and kiteboarding on Vancouver Island, BC. The site features webcams, current wind reports, forums, photo galleries, wind predictions and weather statistics.
SpotWX - a website for spot weather forecasting (multiple models and day ranges).
Windy.com - great wind maps.
Windfinder.com - another take on wind forecasting and historical weather data.
Wind in Your Sails - an excerpt from Secrets of the St. Lawrence by Environment Canada.
Book: The Wind Came All Ways: A Quest to Understand the Wind, Waves and Weather in the Georgia Basin
Book: Living with Weather Along the BC Coast: The Veil of Chaos
Nanoose CPS - Marine forecast information for BC Coastal Waters.
UW Department of Atmospheric Sciences - Data & Forecasts
UW Weather Graphics Loops - fall in to the rabbit hole...skiers too!
School Based Weather Network - for more local info, a collection of weather stations on southern Vancouver Island.
The Power of Weather Stations - article on how to use recent weather trends to derive a more local forecast from the regional marine weather forecast.
Overview of sources of Marine Forecast Info for Coast BC Waters by Roger Palmer.

The recommended source for Canadian tide and current forecast information is the Complete Volumes of The Canadian Tide and Current Tables by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (not available in hardcopy post 2020).
It may be more convenient, particularly for currents, to use forecasts generated with the XTides Program (reference tide ports and primary current stations only). Pick your preferred web interface and be sure to validate against The Canadian Tide and Current Tables.

WWW interface to the XTide Program - ad free with most flexible tabular and graphical(sometimes?) reporting.

l-36.com - convenient 7 day Tide and Currents Charts and Tables.

Dairiki.org - chart and monthly table.
Worksheet for Currents & Tides at Secondary Stations - from Ports and Passes.
Calculation Rules of Thumb for Tides & Currents - article from CASKA.
Tides (and Currents) Simplified by Phil Clegg - article from Sea Kayaking Anglesey.

Navionics web app - nautical charts with routing tool.
GPS Visualizer web app - generate and plot gps data.
Sea Kayak Guides Alliance of BC - find a guide (and a great resource section).
BC Marine Trails - please support them and the great work they do.
Navigation, Sea State, Weather - Freedom of the Seas Volume 1 - an amazing resource for you to check out right now.
Paddling to Unfamiliar Areas on the Open Coast - learn to avoid and/or manage the risks so you can as much as possible avoid a stressful (paddling) experience.
Kayak Destination Info Sheets - from SKABC.org
PNW Sea Kayaking Guidebooks - Alex Sidles Reviews.
Satellite Imagery - Sentinal Hub Playground for extensive collection of recent satellite images.

Useful and interesting resources for planning paddling and boating trips around Vancouver Island.