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

How to dock a sailboat

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Here’s a fun suggestion – grab a sandwich, a few drinks, and a mate (with a boat if you don’t have one) on a sunny windy day and get out to the boat with your newfound maneuvering under power skills from our Maneuvering Under Power Course. Gingerly take the boat away from the marina and […]

How to cure seasickness naturally

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On our most recent yacht charter to the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, we encountered one day with reasonably high swell and only about 10 knots of wind. Being on a broad reach was not the ideal heading for this but alas this is the direction we wanted to go – from the Bay of […]

Sailboat Dealers working with NauticEd

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In the 2013 new era market, after the carnage and fall out from 2008, as with any business, sailboat dealers are finding new ways to nurture and secure a loyal following of customers and create diversified  income streams attached to their primary dealership and brokerage business. How? Just quickly, let’s look at the scuba diving […]

Practical Proof of sailing proficiency when bareboat chartering

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Here is a question posted by one of our students – it’s such a common question asked by many worldwide so  I’m providing the answer here. Question: I am considering your courses to basically be able to charter without issues. I have been sailing on my own boats for the past 15 years but really […]

How to fill out your sailing experience logbook

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NauticEd is the world’s only digital way of storing your online sailors logbook and we’ve made it so that you fill it out in the same manner as required by the USCG which also follow most countries requirements for posting boating experience. One day is counted if you gain a minimum 4 hours of experience […]

performance yacht charter

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Christian and Lucy at Performance Yacht Charter are a pretty impressive (and really nice) couple.  They sail the world with their two charter yachts, Northern Child, a swan 51, and Smile and Wave, a Beneteau First 40, entering into world renown Yacht Regattas. They’re good friends of us at NauticEd. We first met them in […]

Yacht Charter in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand

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NauticEd staff just completed a 10-day yacht charter on a 40 ft Leopard Catamaran with the Moorings, New Zealand in the famous Bay of Islands. AND … I have to say that comparing all the places all over the world that we have chartered in, the Bay of Islands is definitely world class.

How To Bareboat Charter – Question

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Here’s a question from a potential student about how to bareboat charter a yacht. It’s such a good and typical question that I’m posting the answer here. QUESTION >>>> Hi, My girlfriend and I are interested in getting our bareboat certification. Growing up I sailed small Sunfish/Lazer style sailboats on lakes, I have extensive power […]

PRESS RELEASE: New Electronic Navigation Course Released

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Fresh off the ePress – Electronic Navigation Course A few weeks ago we announced our coming Electronic Navigation Course AND NOW it’s here and available online AND you can get it for FREE. If you’re considering chartering a bareboat, do local/long-distance cruising or racing then this is the course for you. ABOUT THE COURSE: The Course is […]