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Sailing Video: Informative and Slightly Funny

February 27, 2012/by Grant Headifen

This week we launched a new sailing video to help explain NauticEd sailing school; what we do and how we do it.

NauticEd Reviews

November 24, 2011/by Grant Headifen

At NauticEd Sailing School we’ve been collecting student reviews on our sailing courses for quite some time now and we’ve got to say a big thank-you to our students for submitting them all. It’s been awesome to see all the NauticEd reviews come in. By and large most all of the NauticEd reviews on our […]

Press Release: Social Proof for Sailing School Instructors

June 27, 2011/by Grant Headifen

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 […]

Yacht Club Intelligence: NauticEd Sailing School Press Release

May 15, 2011/by Grant Headifen

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 […]

NauticEd Launches New Sailing Course: Anchoring a Sailboat

April 14, 2011/by Grant Headifen

PRESS RELEASE: NauticEd Launches New Sailing Course: Anchoring a Sailboat Today NauticEd released another sailing course: Anchoring a Sailboat. The sailing course focuses on knowledge required to effectively and successfully anchor a sailboat. Captain’s Alex and Daria Blackwell, authors of The Art of Anchoring, wrote the NauticEd specific sailing course. The sailing course consists of […]

NauticEd Encourages Advanced Sailors to Get a Sailing Certification

April 14, 2011/by Grant Headifen

PRESS RELEASE: NauticEd Encourages Advanced Sailors to Get a Sailing Certification Click on this button and you’ll be invited to test-out of the NauticEd beginner to intermediate sailor Skipper Sailing Course. This is NauticEd’s latest strategy to help advanced sailors get beyond the requirements to sit entry level sailing courses and to focus on advanced education. […]

Thanks For Referring Students to NauticEd

January 18, 2011/by Grant Headifen

NauticEd’s online sailing school recent growth spurt has been due to our students telling other students about us. So we have implemented a reward system for that awesome behavior. Introducing NauticEd’s Social Expansion Loop Program. Watch the video here. Essentially – you can now set up your own NauticEd Promocode and give it out to […]

Member Feedback makes it all worthwhile

December 21, 2010/by Grant Headifen

Here’s a great unsolicited email from a student below. Makes me all goosey that the incredible effort that we do is all worthwhile. Incredible to think that the sailing games like CatNED maneuvering game made such an impression. Certainly we advocate gaining practical experience – but it does show you what a little theory study […]

Press Release – New Safety at Sea Online Sailing Course

November 24, 2010/by Grant Headifen

Today, NauticEd Sailing School announced the posting of its online Safety at Sea Course. Written by Captain Ed Mapes who has logged close to 100,000 miles on the ocean, the Safety at Sea course focuses on safety and rigging issues that sailors will experience at sea. In the introduction to the sailing course, Captain Mapes […]

Press Release – NauticEd Releases Captain’s Rank

November 24, 2010/by Grant Headifen

Today, NauticEd Online Sailing School announced its release of the NauticEd Captain’s Rank. This coincides with the posting of the NauticEd Safety at Sea Course which is the final required course to attain the Sailing Certification Rank. The NauticEd Captain’s Rank focuses entirely on sailboat operations both near shore and offshore and is directed specifically […]