Catamaran Maneuvering and Docking

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How to Maneuver a Large Catamaran Below you will find a very useful animation that will help show the relative throttle positions on dual throttle controls when maneuvering or docking a large Catamaran. Animations like this one are embedded throughout our Catamaran Sailing course, as well as several of our other sailing courses. You will […]

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How to Spring Off a Tee Head

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This is a follow up blog on last week’s How To Spring On To A Dock. If you like it – please “like it” – thanks it really helps us grow. Once you’ve jammed your self into a tight fuel dock, now how do you get out? Pretty simple. Just back out – but use […]

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How to Spring off the Dock

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Springing Off the Dock in a Sailboat Here is a simple animation that shows you how to spring off the dock when the wind is blowing you back onto the dock. Often there may be another boat in front of you and so trying to push the bow out first can easily lead to disaster […]

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Catamaran Sailing Game by NauticEd

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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 […]

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How to dock a sailboat

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Here’s a fun suggestion – grab a sandwich, a few drinks, and a mate (with a boat if you don’t have one) on a sunny windy day and get out to the boat with your newfound maneuvering under power skills from our Maneuvering Under Power Course. Gingerly take the boat away from the marina and […]

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