Answer to a Student’s Question About Documentation

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Here is an email we received from a NauticEd student >>>>>>>> On 4/1/10 8:31 AM, “Michael” Wrote: Hello, I reviewed your website and am interested in taking your courses. The courses are the background to actual on-water experience. I live in Northern California and sail with a friend quite often. There are also several sailing […]

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Useful instructions for NauticEd Users

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Make sure you like us on facebook to stay up with all the cool things we do (look to the right over there —–> ) Watch this video as soon as you have signed up with NauticEd If you already saw this one, continue down below. We pieced together the training of how NauticEd works […]

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Sailing Resume – Logbook

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Here is a question posted by Nancy KnudsenEditor Sail-World Cruising. Sail-world is one of the largest and respected online sailing news companies ) to NauticEd this week. Followed by our answer. On 1/16/10 6:47 PM, “Nancy Knudsen Cruising Editor Sail-World” <cruisingeditor@sail-world.com> wrote: Hi Grant I have a question about the sailing certification video you have […]

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Cool iPhone App

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Along with NauticEd’s iphone app to help sailors keep their logbook current, we’ve discovered a new iphone app which helps sailors identify boats at night from their lights they exhibit. It serves as an excellent and handy vessel light identification chart for sailing at night. The aqualights iphone app is very simple to use. It […]

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The NauticEd Sailing Certificate Explained

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Here is an explanation of how your NauticEd Sailing certificate will grow with your education and experience. The Certificate is made up of 3 sections. Completed Courses, Rank and Level achieved and Practical Verification by a sailing school. All registered persons at NauticEd are called students. Every student starts out with a Sailing Certificate. On […]

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Sailing Certifications made simple

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The NauticEd Sailing Certification system can be easily explained by the animated infographic below. You will notice that the sailing certification is based on using a combined model of knowledge plus skills plus experience. Together, these lead to competence. At NauticEd, we don’t issue McCertifications of attendance (as you may find elsewhere, and too often […]

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Catamaran Sailing Confidence Course

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Hot of the press today: We just launched the new Catamaran Sailing Confidence Course written by Nick Harvey of Lagoon Catamarans and Captain Grant Headifen. If you want to learn to sail a large catamaran, this is the sailing course for you. Here is an excerpt from the course. >>>>>>>>>>> … And if there wasn’t […]

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Trim the main sail

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When learning to sail the main thing we’re excited about doing is getting the boat moving, but as we become more advanced, we really want to understand the different forces on the boat and maximize the efficiency. Proper understanding of sail trim can help us achieve that. This post is a good example of exactly […]

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Rrrrrrrripp

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That’s the last sound you want to hear when sailing. Now you have to pull the sail down, fold it up, carry it up the dock to the car (it’s heavy) wait for a week day to take into the sail maker, beg for them to fix it fast, pick it up on a week […]

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