Heaving To in a Sailboat is a Practiced Skill
While books say to tack the boat with the head sail cleated to windward and turn the wheel to windward, there’s more to know about heaving to
Entries by Grant Headifen
Top Ten Good Captaining Skills
Captaining a bareboat yacht on a sailing vacation is an acquired skill. All of a sudden you’re transformed from friend, co-worker, family and sometimes complete stranger into the authoritative figure with ultimate power. That’s not an easy formula so I’ve put together the top ten tips on how to be a great captain. When people are led […]
Press Release: Social Proof for Sailing School Instructors
On-line product reviews are in demand these days by consumers prior to making a purchase. A recent Nielsen report stated that forty-nine percent of online shoppers said they trusted consumer opinions posted online. Investing your time, money and well-being in a professional sailing school instructor is serious business. So wouldn’t it be great to know […]
How to Sail with a Jockey Pole
Last weekend we were out racing and one of the legs was very similar to a race we’d done a few weeks back with the same wind condition. On that previous race we’d lost huge ground over the other boats solely because the sail configuration and hull design etc on this boat doesn’t allow the […]
Earn your USCG Captain’s License with NauticEd
NauticEd announces some pretty exciting news today regarding gaining your USCG Captain’s Licence. We have made a partnership alliance with Mariners Learning System to allow NauticEd Students gain a United States Coast Guard Commercial Captain’s License. Why would you want a USCG Captains License? Simply stated: If you are ever planning on receiving remuneration for operating […]
Learning to Sail with the Tell Tales
Take a look at some footage of the tell tales on the head sail as a NauticEd student turned the boat through various wind angles.
Sailing A Catamaran
In this article, we’re talking about bareboat chartering of a Catamaran sailing boat on a sailing vacation.
Sailing Video of Rolex Regatta 2011
Just posted the sailing video of the experience of racing the St Thomas Rolex Regatta 2011 with NauticEd students and Safe Passage Sailing. Safe Passage Sailing chartered Kialoa V, an 80 ft maxi, and Northern Child, a 51 ft swan. NauticEd students and charterers with Safe Passage Sailing attended. Over all, we had about 20 […]
Yacht Club Intelligence: NauticEd Sailing School Press Release
Imagine if you could just hang out at the yacht club every day – how much you’d learn from everyone. That’d be cool. Well … now you can! It’s a very cool piece of technology we just installed on the NauticEd site. It’s called DisQus and the concept is based on crowd intelligence. It shows […]
Do YOUR Job
Yesterday we were out racing in our local sailing regatta. At the end of any regatta race we always have a debriefing on what we could have done better. Turns out this one works especially well in our work lives as well and so that was the topic of conversation over a few beers afterward. […]
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