New RYA School in the Grenadines

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NauticEd is very excited to start working with Sail Grenadines, a yacht charter company, and RYA sailing school located in Bequia Island in the Grenadines. We first met Katie the owner of Sail Grenadines at the Annapolis boat show along with her chief RYA instructor John. John is a hip cool kind of guy who […]

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What Do You Mean I Don’t Qualify?

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My Rant on the Sailing Certification Factories This actually happened today. A yacht charter client of ours submitted his resume to the yacht charter company. He had sailing certifications from another certifying body from 101 through 105. He was turned down.  Imagine the disappointment you’d have when you have done all that work and paid all […]

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International Sailing License

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PRESS RELEASE: NauticEd Announces Sailing License and Credentials (SLC™), the International Sailing License.   NauticEd announced its newly approved International Sailing License, the SLC™, at the October 2017 Annapolis boat show.  SLC stands for Sailing License and Credentials. Grant Headifen, Global Director of Education for NauticEd, said that they have put high standards on attaining the […]

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How to Gain a Boating and Sailing License in the USA

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How can an American gain an International Sailing and Boating License? NauticEd issues the internationally accepted sailing license, the SLC. Learn about the SLC here below. At NauticEd, we help people reach their sailing goals and potential. Not surprisingly, most people would like to go bareboat charting on a sailing vacation. The perceived roadblock for […]

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Sailboat speed versus sailing angle

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I nabbed this image off Pinterest via (https://hobiecat16.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/points-of-sail-vs-boat-speed/). It is a pretty good image that represents the speed of a sailboat versus the sailing angle to the wind. It is pretty easy to read – at dead downwind in a 10-knot breeze the fastest you can get this boat to go is slightly less than […]

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Potty Talk and Ying and Yang

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It’s a sh*ty job but someone has to do it. On our Beneteau 373 sailboat, we have a Jabsco quiet flush electric marine toilet. Thanks go out to Jabsco for doing such a great job on putting together a comprehensive set of videos to service their marine toilets. A few weeks ago I posted this […]

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How does heeling angle create airfoil shape?

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A student asked this question “How does heeling angle create an airfoil shape in the sails”. He was using SeaTalks nanoforum that we have on every page of our sailing courses. So my first thought was Huh? What the heck is he talking about? Then I remembered that I wrote that. So it must be right, right? […]

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