Sailing Training Vacations
Now, you can learn to sail, improve your sailing skills, and build your mileage…all while on a vacation.
Entries by Grant Headifen
Spinnaker Sailing Course
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.
Sailing Vacation in Antigua
NauticEd offers Yacht Charters and sailing vacation in Antigua via its affiliated Yacht Charter Companies.
FREE Sailor’s eLogbook
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
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
This is a Lines of Position exercise from our Coastal Navigation course, which is loaded with practical exercises.
New RYA School in the Grenadines
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?
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 […]
International Sailing License
PRESS RELEASE: NauticEd Announces Sailing License and Credentials (SLC™), the International Sailing License. NauticEd announced its newly approved International Sailing License, the SLC™, at the October 2017 Annapolis boat show. SLC stands for Sailing License and Credentials. Grant Headifen, Global Director of Education for NauticEd, said that they have put high standards on attaining the […]
Sailing Instruction and Assessment Standards USCG
NauticEd quickly moves to align its training and assessments to meet and exceed the new standard set by ANSI, a member of ISO.
NauticEd is a fully recognized education and certification platform for sailing students combining online and on-the-water real instruction (and now VR). NauticEd offers +24 online courses, a free sailor's toolkit that includes 2 free courses, and six ranks of certification – all integrated into NauticEd’s proprietary platform. The USCG and NASBLA recognize NauticEd as having met the established American National Standards. Learn more at www.nauticed.org.
The NauticEd Vacations team are Expert Global Yacht Charter Agents – when you book a sailing vacation or bareboat charter through NauticEd, we don’t charge you a fee – we often save you money since we can compare prices from all yacht charter companies. PLUS, we can give you advice on which destination or charter company will suit your needs best. Inquire about a Sailing Vacation or Charter.