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

Students express interest in knocking down the bucket list

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Here is a wonderful email from a NauticEd Student regarding our post on the Heineken Regatta Sailing Adventure. On 1/29/10 1:55 PM, “Ronald”  wrote: Grant, Funny you should ask about my Bucket List. You see, that movie is the reason I now own a beautiful Beneteau 423. I rarely go to movies. I am talking […]

Press Release: NauticEd and Safe Passage Sailing To Provide Sailing Adventures

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NauticEd announced today that it would begin providing sailing adventures to it’s students via an alliance with Safe Passage Sailing, a San Francisco based sailing adventure company. “This provides super exciting sailing adventure events to get our students out on the water and experience the exhilaration that sailing can bring” said Grant Headifen, Educational Director […]

Press Release – Annapolis Bay Charters becomes NauticEd FlagShip Sailing School

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Annapolis Bay Charters becomes NauticEd’s first Flag Ship Practical Sailing School NauticEd announced today that the 30 year old and well respected Charter Sailing Company, Annapolis Bay Charters, would become it’s first Flag Ship Practical Training Sailing School. To date, NauticEd has successfully established itself as The World’s Most Advanced Online Sailing School and provides […]

Sailing Resume – Logbook

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Here is a question posted by Nancy KnudsenEditor Sail-World Cruising. Sail-world is one of the largest and respected online sailing news companies ) to NauticEd this week. Followed by our answer. On 1/16/10 6:47 PM, “Nancy Knudsen Cruising Editor Sail-World” <cruisingeditor@sail-world.com> wrote: Hi Grant I have a question about the sailing certification video you have […]

Cool iPhone App

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Along with NauticEd’s iphone app to help sailors keep their logbook current, we’ve discovered a new iphone app which helps sailors identify boats at night from their lights they exhibit. It serves as an excellent and handy vessel light identification chart for sailing at night. The aqualights iphone app is very simple to use. It […]

The NauticEd Sailing Certificate Explained

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Here is an explanation of how your NauticEd Sailing certificate will grow with your education and experience. The Certificate is made up of 3 sections. Completed Courses, Rank and Level achieved and Practical Verification by a sailing school. All registered persons at NauticEd are called students. Every student starts out with a Sailing Certificate. On […]

Sailing Certifications made simple

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The NauticEd Sailing Certification system can be easily explained by the animated infographic below. You will notice that the sailing certification is based on using a combined model of knowledge plus skills plus experience. Together, these lead to competence. At NauticEd, we don’t issue McCertifications of attendance (as you may find elsewhere, and too often […]

Chronicles of a Sailing Yacht Charter Week in the BVI’s: Day 8

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Friday 2nd October 2009 Early to rise in Savannah Bay – and a swim to shore. Again, this morning we spent a few hours on the beach at Savannah bay snorkeling, playing beach bats, and strolling along the 750m long beach. We then set sail for Spanish town again were we picked up more ice.  […]