Sailing Education Archives

How to Dock a Sailboat

June 27, 2013/by Grant Headifen

Need to dock a sailboat? This course will have you confident enough to back a boat into a slip in a 40 knot cross wind.

Sailing in Light winds Sailing in light air is certainly a skill that needs to be taught by sailing schools when learning to sail. But, here are some very key points you can learn that will get you moving through the water on light wind days. Light air sailing is very much a learned skill. […]

Sailing Tip: How to move the fairlead forward whilst under tension

June 14, 2013/by Grant Headifen

In a stiff breeze you want to move the fairlead forward after you have reefed the headsail right? Yes, right!

Man Overboard

May 30, 2013/by Grant Headifen

In this post I want to tell a few stories that will alert you to the fact that MOB is going to happen to you, and often when you least expect

Catamaran Sailing Game by NauticEd

April 28, 2013/by Grant Headifen

Here is a youtube post by one of our talented students who gets a perfect score playing our Catamaran Maneuvering game. I’m guesssing a few hours were involved here but I’m pretty sure that given this amount of maneuvering experience in real life, Andrew would be an expert at maneuvering a catamaran around in a […]

Captains License

April 27, 2013/by Grant Headifen

Captain’s License Here is the latest list of courses associated with the NauticEd Captain’s License. Keep in mind that you must log a minimum of 50 days on the water – 25 of which at minimum must be as master of the vessel and 25 of which must be on a sailboat greater than 28 […]

Master of the Vessel Question

April 21, 2013/by Grant Headifen

How can a student log sailing experience as ‘master’ of the vessel as outlined in your sailing certification requirements?

Day Skipper: Skipper Bundle of Sailing Courses

April 21, 2013/by Grant Headifen

Day Skipper When we put the Skipper Sailing Course and the Maneuvering Under Power course together we get the Day Skipper Bundle of courses. Combine that with some sailing experience and you can achieve the NauticEd Sailing Certification of Day Skipper Rank. The Skipper Course is our most comprehensive course. It should take the average […]

Navigation: Electronic or Paper charts?

April 20, 2013/by Grant Headifen

So here is a post I did on a recent linkedin forum for sailing instructors. >>>>>> Check this out – my 13 year old nephew recently refused to think about a home work problem and demanded that he look the answer up on the internet. I agree with using tools at hand but understanding the […]

How to do a Running Fix

April 19, 2013/by Grant Headifen

Running Fix Explained This week we uploaded our updated Coastal Navigation course to Apple for publishing on iTunes as an interactive eLearning App. We’re very excited about this update because of the HTML 5 animations we’ve used to explain some of the concepts. Specifically in regards to this post, no where on the web have we […]