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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

Stopping Rounding Up Dead in it’s Tracks

June 8, 2010/by Grant Headifen

Rounding up is caused by many factors. One is too much wind and force aloft which tends to heel the boat over. This reduces the amount of rudder in the water and thus the rudder’s effectiveness. Another factor in rounding up is the center of pressure of wind on the sails is too far aft […]

Sailing Certification Question

June 3, 2010/by Grant Headifen

Here is a question posted by one of our students today with our response following. On 6/4/10 1:54 PM, “Ted” wrote:   I have recently started through your courses in the hope of chartering next winter. My own boat is a 25′ Catalina. From your information it appears that I will not receive credit for […]

Clever Sailing Tip

May 31, 2010/by Grant Headifen

Ever had trouble trying to trim the genoa car forward or back whilst it is under load from the sail? We have the trick for you.

Day 6 of an introduction to NauticEd

May 17, 2010/by Grant Headifen

This is the final day of your introduction to NauticEd. Watch the video and/or read the text below. Today we’re discussing chartering a yacht on a sailing vacation and the NauticEd Post Graduation Sailing Trip. After having lead dozens of sailing trips all over the world including Greece, Croatia, The British Virgin Islands, Grenada, St. […]

Day 5 of 6 in an introduction to NauticEd

May 16, 2010/by Grant Headifen

This is day 5 of 6 in your introduction to NauticEd International Sailing School Watch the video and/or read the text below. Today we’re discussing practical sailing schools and how you can get a verified proficiency stamp added to your sailing certificate. The Verified Proficiency Mark is an acknowledgement that the student has had on […]

Day 4 of Introduction to NauticEd

May 15, 2010/by Grant Headifen

This is day 4 of 6 in your introduction to NauticEd International Sailing School. Watch the video and/or read the text below. Today we’ll help you discover which courses are best suited for you personally. We developed a series of 11 quick questions that will easily eliminate any confusion about which course you should be […]

Bareboat Charter Crew Briefing List

May 14, 2010/by Grant Headifen

We received a lot of interest in the Bareboat Charter Course Crew Briefing Check list that we sent out via our mailer earlier in the week. Some additional and excellent tips were sent in by some of you and so we have updated the list. See it now at the bottom of this page: Bareboat […]

Life Saving Tip for downwind sailing

May 10, 2010/by Grant Headifen

Some tips are long and some are short – This short one will save your life or one of your crew. As you know – sailing downwind has the dangerous potential of the accidental gybe. This can be quite a common occurrence if you have an inexperienced crew at the helm or perhaps with a […]

Day 3 of your Introduction to NauticEd

April 17, 2010/by Grant Headifen

This is day 3 of 6 in your introduction to NauticEd International Sailing School. Watch the video and/or read the text below. Today we’ll discuss why and how to fill out your free online boating resume and our free iPhone App  which lets you update your boating resume on the fly. Also, watch this video about […]

Enter your sailing experience into your NauticEd Online Logbook

April 16, 2010/by Grant Headifen

We produced this video to help you in filling out your NauticEd Sailing Logbook. All yacht charter sailing companies require you to fill out a sailing logbook or resume when you take a sailing vacation. NauticEd sailing school makes it easy with a free online sailing logbook. Watch this sailing video to learn how to […]

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