Grant Headifen

About Grant Headifen

My vision for NauticEd is to provide the highest quality sailing and boating education available - and deliver competence wherever sailors live and go.

Entries by Grant Headifen

2018 July Italian Flotilla

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NauticEd Hosted an Italian Flotilla in July 2018 Also, see an awesome Amalfi  trip  video from one of our students, Galen, at the bottom of the page. THE BASICS When: July 14-21, 2018 Who: NauticEd is a premier sailing education and certification company. Grant Headifen is the Global Director of Education and will be leading […]

Spinnaker Sailing Course

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The NauticEd Sail Trim course now includes how to hoist, fly, and douse a spinnaker. Here is an animation embedded into the course so that you can learn the names of the components associated with a spinnaker.

FREE Sailor’s eLogbook

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NauticEd gives all sailors a free online logbook But some ask why do we do this. We received an email this morning from someone who compliments us on our courses but ripped us a new one for requiring him to enter time into his logbook. Well, we don’t quite “require”, but the software does raise the student’s rank […]

Americas Cup 2021

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For sure the NauticEd team will be in New Zealand in 2021 watching the Americas Cup. This is set to be another technology race. Hydrofoiling Monohulls – so very cool! The idea is to combine speed with sailing skill via tacking duels; which makes this one of the most exciting races of all time. You […]

Lines of Position

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This is a Lines of Position exercise from our Coastal Navigation course, which is loaded with practical exercises.

New RYA School in the Grenadines

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NauticEd is very excited to start working with Sail Grenadines, a yacht charter company, and RYA sailing school located in Bequia Island in the Grenadines. We first met Katie the owner of Sail Grenadines at the Annapolis boat show along with her chief RYA instructor John. John is a hip cool kind of guy who […]

What Do You Mean I Don’t Qualify?

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My Rant on the Sailing Certification Factories This actually happened today. A yacht charter client of ours submitted his resume to the yacht charter company. He had sailing certifications from another certifying body from 101 through 105. He was turned down.  Imagine the disappointment you’d have when you have done all that work and paid all […]