If you like this post – please “LIKE” it and g+1 it – It helps keep our waterways clean. Here’s how to fuel up your sailboat without spilling a drop of fuel into the water. Hi all – for years I struggled with fueling up the boat and trying my best to not spill any […]
Wanna get in the mood of sailing a catamaran? Watch this video we just posted. It features a Lagoon 52 sailing in the clear waters of the Bahamas. We have embed this video into the start of the Catamaran Sailing Confidence course to get our catamaran students in the mood for taking the course. When […]
Using a Solar Panel for a boat Lake Travis in Austin Texas is about 40 feet down right now with over 50% of the water gone. That’s not good! But also it’s not good because they’ve pushed out the docks so far that the marina company no longer supply electricity to the dock. This left […]
Catamaran Sailing Course Along with the very exciting news of NauticEd joining forces with Lagoon Catamarans to bring Catamaran Sailing education to the market, we have announced our latest update to the Catamaran Sailing Confidence Course. The interactive Catamaran Sailing Confidence Course is available online in browser and PDF format and as an App […]
How to make sailing part of your bucket list, learn sailing, and join a yacht club with or without owning a sailboat.
Hey – I bought this coffee maker for my birthday yesterday and it is so awesome that I thought I’d share it because it is perfect for a boat due to light and small and low clean up and quick. Basically – you put highly ground coffee in the tube, pour in boiling water, stir […]
How to Maneuver a Large Catamaran Below you will find a very useful animation that will help show the relative throttle positions on dual throttle controls when maneuvering or docking a large Catamaran. Animations like this one are embedded throughout our Catamaran Sailing course, as well as several of our other sailing courses. You will […]
Tacking and Gybing If you like this post – please “LIKE” it or +1 it. It really helps us grow. When describing tacking and gybing, a boring ol’ paper book must go into a thousand words about the difference between tacking and gybing with several graphics explaining wind from aft and wind passing through bow […]
This is a follow up blog on last week’s How To Spring On To A Dock. If you like it – please “like it” – thanks it really helps us grow. Once you’ve jammed your self into a tight fuel dock, now how do you get out? Pretty simple. Just back out – but use […]
What if you’re in an end tie or tee head and the wind is blowing you off the dock? It’s not so easy to solve then.
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