How to and Why Authenticate a Boating Logbook

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Whenever you are out on the water sailing, the SailTies app will create a GPS real-time track of your every movement and display it on a map. You can see every tack, gybe, knock, and lift. The guys at SailTies did such an amazing job of creating a user-friendly app for GPS tracking that we decided to hook up with them and allow their data to directly feed right into the student NauticEd logbook.

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Sailing Training Vacations

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Learning to Sail – Improving Your Sailing Skills – Building Mileage: All While on a Vacation What a really good idea!  No, seriously; it is.   Taking a sailing training vacation is simple and easy. In fact, even if you have experience, it is a good idea. Most often we get calls from people who can […]

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Why do an electronic sailors Logbook?

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We recently were copied on an email from a school to one of our students that was encouraging a sailor to fill out their paper sailor’s logbook. Paper? Really? – Actually I think it was really only because there was no understanding that an electronic 21st century thinking has been applied to sailing logbooks. Here […]

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NauticEd Sailing Nano-Forums

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If you think this is the greatest idea on the planet or at least just a very good one, please like us on facebook. Posted by Grant Headifen, Global Director of Education – NauticEd. One of the greatest things I love about my job is the ability to apply the latest technology to the sailing […]

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Entering Experience into your sailors logbook

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Airline pilots, naval seamen, scientists and scuba divers all maintain a logbook. So why don’t sailors? Because it’s just in the too hard bucket with seemingly no point to do it. Until Now! If you ever want to charter, you MUST have a sailing resume. Yacht charter companies DO NOT accept a sailing certification – […]

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