Sailing Bucket List
How to make sailing part of your bucket list, learn sailing, and join a yacht club with or without owning a sailboat.
Entries by Trisha Evelyn
Best Boat Coffee Maker
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 […]
Catamaran Maneuvering and Docking
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 […]
Difference between tacking and gybing (aka jibing)
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 […]
How to Spring Off a Tee Head
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 […]
How to spring on to the dock
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.
Skipper (Small Boat) Certification Rank
By popular demand we have now introduced a new sailing certification rank called Skipper (small boat) for learning to sail small keelboats.
USCG Captains License
Here is a question from one of our many international students regarding Captains Licenses.
Americas Cup Apparent Wind
Apparent Wind on Americas Cup AC72’s BTW – please “Like”this article using your favorite social media accounts – thanks for that. See here for the TV Schedule for all countries. Who’s taking it home? AmericasCup.com So how do they do it? I was watching it on Sunday – the wind was at about 15 […]
What is VMG?
VMG – Velocity Made Good and Polar Plots This discussion comes mostly out of our Electronic Navigation Course which is available also as an iPad Electronic Navigation Course App. For sailboats, VMG is slightly different than what you’d expect if you were navigating an airplane or power boat. For airplanes and powerboat VMG is your […]
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