With responsible sailing knowledge there is, of course, theory and practical skills to learn and demonstrate. When you get with your practical instructor, it is highly recommended to complete the appropriate theory courses prior to the practical training. Otherwise, you’ll spend too much time on the basics preventing the instructor from doing their real work which […]
Bookmark this page for future use and reference. This is a partial section out of our NauticEd Skipper Course and our NauticEd Coastal Navigation Course which discusses lights on ATONs. If you find this useful then perhaps you might consider taking either of the courses. Coastal Navigation is only $39 and covers most everything you need to […]
Last week, NauticEd and crew went to the British Virgin Islands and chartered a Lagoon 450 from BVI Yacht Charters. We went down there to specifically get more content for our courses including video and pictures. Here is a great video we shot for teaching crew members how to operate a dinghy. As Skipper, you […]
We chartered a Catamaran from the Moorings in May 2016. We have to preface the whole Bareboat Charter Athens Greece report with a big OMG.
Bareboat Charter in Athens Greece with The Moorings Sunday Day 2 Aigina – Perdika – Hydra Our plan for the week was to get going early each day so as to explore on the way then make it into the stay over port early to explore further. Our first early explore was the village of […]
Monday Day 3 of 7 Hydra – Epimioni – Dhokos — Spetsai 6:30 am – now this is the thing to do. Get up super early, leave port and drift the boat about 1 mile out and have breakfast looking at a Greek town off the back deck of the boat. Here was our view […]
Tuesday – Day 4 of 7 days sailing with The Moorings in Greece: Spetses – Poros We woke in the morning to find that the wind had swung as predicted by Pocket GRiB. We’d made a good choice on which side of the key to Med moor. Sam On-The-Rocks went back to town to buy his […]
Day five of seven: Sailing out from Athens with The Moorings on a Leopard 3900 Catamaran Wednesday Poros to Russian Bay to Epidavros When motoring out of Poros you can’t emotionally go faster than 2 knots because the view of the town is so fantastic, especially the iconic clock tower. Here are some more sights […]
Day six of seven: Sailing out from Athens with The Moorings on a Leopard 3900 Catamaran Thursday Epidavros to Ancient Theater to Vathi Clang Clang Clang go the Saxons to wake everyone’s ass up. We gotta get to the Ancient Epidavros Theater. Well at least that was the intention. The crew was dancing pretty hard […]
Day 7 – Friday: Vathi to Perdika to Athens Cock-a-doodle-doo goes the local town rooster. “Last day” he says in rooster talk. I want to kill him. This has been such an amazing trip. But still … another day of fun ahead. Over a coffee in Vathi Port, I had a chat to our dock […]
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