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PRESS RELEASE: NauticEd Announces Pacific Island Post Graduate Sailing Flotilla

February 4, 2010/by Grant Headifen

NauticEd Online Sailing School will begin offering a Post Graduate Sailing Flotilla to its students. Students who graduate to the NauticEd Bareboat Charter Master Rank will be invited to celebrate their graduation by skippering their own charter sailing yacht with their friends and family for a week long sailing adventure. Grant Headifen, Educational Director and […]

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

January 28, 2010/by Grant Headifen

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

January 21, 2010/by Grant Headifen

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 […]

NED – Interactive Sailing Instructor

July 16, 2009/by Grant Headifen

NED is an interactive online sailing instructor developed by NauticEd – The World’s Most Advanced Online Sailing School. The educational sailing training tool uses interactive flash technology to show novice sailors how to set the sail trim according to the wind direction which maximizes the efficiency of the sails. The tool teaches in about 5 […]

NauticEd Unveils High-Tech Teaching Tool

June 22, 2009/by Grant Headifen

PRESS RELEASE Today, NauticEd again lived up to its tag line of being “The World’s Most Advanced Online Sailing Education” by unveiling it’s latest teaching tool – NED. NED is a very high tech interactive online sailing instructor whereby new and novice sailors can learn how the sails should be positioned for any wind direction. […]

Coastal Navigation Course Launched

April 15, 2009/by Grant Headifen

Yesterday we launched our most requested course. Coastal Navigation! We’re very excited to have this course completed and up. It was written by our resident faculty member Captain Ed Mapes with Offshore Voyages. Ed has taught navigation courses with thousands of students on board his ocean learning passages. The Coastal Sailing Navigation course incorporates most […]

West Marine Links to NauticEd

December 24, 2008/by Grant Headifen

West Marine, the USA’s largest (by far) chandlery sailing and boating supply company, has become the latest sponsor for NauticEd by providing a link through to NauticEd. This is a leaping bound for NauticEd in gaining this kind of exposure. West Marine made the link on their sailing category page in an effort to promote […]

Sailing Charter Companies “get” NauticEd

December 17, 2008/by Grant Headifen

With the addition of NauticEd’s two recent sailing Courses – Bareboat Charter Course and the Maneuvering a Sailboat under Power Course, sailing charter companies are “getting” the value of NauticEd. Reduction in damage: The first is the obvious reduction in damage at the dock and in the marina but there are other reasons as well. […]

Skippering a Sailboat

November 12, 2008/by Grant Headifen

This is the first blog post for the Skipper course and we encourage everyone to post their comments about general leadership, operations of a modern sailboat and general learning to sail topics. Also feel free to let us know about the NauticEd Skipper Course and it can be improved and expanded. My first comment and […]