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Top Ten Safe Boating Tips

May 22, 2022/by Grant Headifen

Top 10 safe boating tips in recognition of safe boating awareness week this June. Learn how to be safe on the water.

Nineteen ways to get sailing experience if you don’t own a boat

January 21, 2019/by Grant Headifen

What is The Biggest Lie in Sailing?

December 4, 2018/by Grant Headifen

The biggest lie in sailing stems from sailing certifications alone as proof enough of competence to charter yachts.

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 […]

GPS Tracking for Sailboats and Float Plan Filing

July 5, 2017/by Grant Headifen

Now users can begin tracking all their sailing ventures using NauticEd’s Tracklink App. Available on iOS, and soon on Android devices.

Why do an electronic sailors Logbook?

February 8, 2016/by Grant Headifen

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 […]

NauticEd Sailing Nano-Forums

July 29, 2015/by Grant Headifen

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 […]

Entering Experience into your sailors logbook

July 9, 2015/by Grant Headifen

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 – […]

Master of the Vessel vs Crew

May 17, 2015/by Grant Headifen

Here is an excellent question from a student with our answer. It is in regards to entering Master of the vessel time into his NauticEd online sailing logbook. >>>>>>>>>>>> My name is Ben , and I am a NauticEd Member. I am quite fond of the program and think it is a wonderful tool for […]

New Updated Sailing App

February 23, 2015/by Grant Headifen

If you like our App please LIKE this post on facebook and g+1 it. Thanks. Our new sailing app is now here This weekend we launched our new updated NauticEd Sailing App. We think it’s pretty cool- mostly because of the thousands (and thousands) of dollars invested in it (well … and the cool features). […]