How to get others to pay for your new sailboat

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Boat Sharing Article by Grant Headifen: Director of Education for NauticEd. So I always get questions like this “How can I get time logged into my logbook when I don’t own a boat?” There are heaps of ways including friend’s boats and yacht clubs and boat share clubs and fractional membership companies. But there is […]

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Oregon Offshore International Yacht Race

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GET TWO FREE SAILING COURSES AND A FREE ELECTRONIC SAILOR’S LOGBOOK PLUS BE A LUCKY WINNER OF THE NAUTICED CAPTAIN’S EDUCATION BUNDLE NauticEd International Sailing Education is the proud title sponsor for the May 12th 2016, Oregon Offshore International Yacht Race. Two of NauticEd’s practical sailing schools, Island Sailing Club and Vancouver Sailing Club are […]

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Sailing In Thailand – Day 1

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Ok, raise your right hand and repeat after me “I promise to go sailing in Thailand before I kick the bucket”.The NauticEd team has just completed a familiarization trip in the Phuket Thailand cruising area.

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Best Boat Coffee Maker

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Hey – I bought this coffee maker for my birthday yesterday and it is so awesome that I thought I’d share it because it is perfect for a boat due to light and small and low clean up and quick. Basically – you put highly ground coffee in the tube, pour in boiling water, stir […]

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performance yacht charter

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Christian and Lucy at Performance Yacht Charter are a pretty impressive (and really nice) couple.  They sail the world with their two charter yachts, Northern Child, a swan 51, and Smile and Wave, a Beneteau First 40, entering into world renown Yacht Regattas. They’re good friends of us at NauticEd. We first met them in […]

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Join Your Local Yacht Club

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This is the 2012 New Years Resolution Sailing Tip This issue’s sailing tip is a pretty simple one. It will lead to you having more valuable practical sailing experience than you’d ever imagine. And it fits nicely in with any new years resolutions you might be considering. When I lived in Austin Texas, I raced […]

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Sailing Video of Rolex Regatta 2011

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Just posted the sailing video of the experience of racing the St Thomas Rolex Regatta 2011 with NauticEd students and Safe Passage Sailing. Safe Passage Sailing chartered Kialoa V, an 80 ft maxi, and Northern Child, a 51 ft swan. NauticEd students and charterers with Safe Passage Sailing attended. Over all, we had about 20 […]

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New Sailors in production in New Zealand

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New Zealand has long been respected by the world sailing community as producing some of the world’s top sailors. It’s no wonder! Here is a pic I snapped this week while visiting Torbay, New Zealand of our future sailors. The sailing industry is always wondering how to get more people involved in the sport and […]

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Students express interest in knocking down the bucket list

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Here is a wonderful email from a NauticEd Student regarding our post on the Heineken Regatta Sailing Adventure. On 1/29/10 1:55 PM, “Ronald”  wrote: Grant, Funny you should ask about my Bucket List. You see, that movie is the reason I now own a beautiful Beneteau 423. I rarely go to movies. I am talking […]

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