Grant Headifen

About Grant Headifen

My vision for NauticEd is to ensure that families and friends get out on the water not only safely but with true COMPETENCE, confidently savoring every moment of their valuable time.

Achieving this means being the pinnacle of sailing and boating education—offering comprehensive multi-media theoretical instruction coupled with hands-on, on-the-water training through our global network of American National Standards Instructors. We steadfastly avoid becoming a mere certification mill; our focus is on delivering genuine competence, ensuring our students are well-prepared for enjoyable, real-world boating experiences.

Entries by Grant Headifen

How to get others to pay for your new sailboat

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Boat Sharing Article by Grant Headifen: Director of Education for NauticEd. So I always get questions like this “How can I get time logged into my logbook when I don’t own a boat?” There are heaps of ways including friend’s boats and yacht clubs and boat share clubs and fractional membership companies. But there is […]

Navigation: Distance off a point method or double the angle

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Each of our course pages has a nano-forum (called SeaTalks) attached so that students can comment on the content of that page. Recently a student asked a question on the nano-forum about the distance off/double the angle method and pointed out something which when we did the geometry analysis it turns up something quite revealing. The […]

Searching for a leak in the boat

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If you don’t know, water is supposed to be on the outside of the boat. Only Rum and a few other libations are supposed to be on the inside. Searching for a leak in the boat can be exhausting, and so here are some tips.

Sailing Vector Game

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Learn Sailboat Giveway Rules and Cure Boredom at the Same Time. Here is a fun sailing game you can play ol’ school like when stuck on an airplane with a sailing buddy. It’s kinda like the old Race Car Vector Grid game but better ’cause it’s sailing. If you can drag your kids off the iPad, […]

What to Take and What to Provision on a Bareboat Charter Vacation

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Many charter companies can stock and provision your boat before you arrive. This is a good idea for the basics but there is usually little imagination in the food that is supplied. So we recommend allowing the charter company to provision for basics but plan on a trip to the supermarket for the sometimes delectable local foods and cheeses.

Sailing Virgins in the BVI joins NauticEd

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NauticEd Finds Sailing Virgins Sailing School Only ten years ago America’s Cup contenders achieved around 13 knots boat speed. Now they are achieving close to 45 knots – in just ten years! Sailors in such a competition used to wear deck vests. Now they need body armor. Sailing is changing, fast. Sailing Virgins is a […]

Set and Drift or Direction and Rate Problem

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Just for practice – solve the following problem on the Long Island Sound Chart. This is the chart that we use in the NauticEd Coastal Navigation Course.   At 2245 your GPS fixes your position at LAT 41 deg 01.75′ N and LONG 72 deg 48.40′ W. You are steering course 086 deg psc at […]

Sailing Books by Nauticed

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Announcing NauticEd’s Books Series But these aren’t just any ol’ books – these are paper hybrid ebooks. What the heck is that? They are paper books with QR codes. The QR code leads the reader to further and in-depth resources like an animation, video, or link to a website for more knowledge. The books are stand […]

Sailing in the British Virgin Islands for 10 days – day 2

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This is Day 2 of our sailing trip in the British Virgin Islands with BVI Yacht Charters on a Lagoon 450. Needing a little hair of the dog from Willie T’s, the crew elected to sail to Jost Van Dyke island for our next stop over in White Bay where the famous Soggy Dollar bar […]