Sailing Education is Supposed to be Fun

We had a blast putting this Ocean Navigation Discussion video together.

The big time fun part was coming up with the dialog. By the constraints of the program to create it we had to use an astronaut and Napoleon. Take a view of the video and let us know if it was at least mildly funny.

We’re going to embed it into the start of the NauticEd Coastal Navigation Sailing Course to get the student in the right mood for learning the basics of ocean navigation. Our thoughts are if some one is in a good mood they can absorb more info. So you’ll find that, through out all NauticEd courses, we try to inject a little humor. It’s something that I think can be done more effectively in online learning as opposed to a paper book.

We used Google Earth to find the distance from the Taj Mahal to Auckland New Zealand. The line it drew was accurately a “great circle” which on a sphere is the shortest distance between two points.

Great Circle Distance from Taj Mahal to Auckland New Zealand

Great Circle Distance from Taj Mahal to Auckland New Zealand

Please enjoy the video but also the NauticEd Coastal Navigation Course.

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  • Grant Headifen

    Grant Headifen is a USCG-certified Master Mariner (50-Ton), founder of NauticEd, and one of the sailing world's most recognized educators. With 46 years on the water, charters across 40+ global destinations, 5 sailing books, 30+ online courses, and 300,000+ students worldwide, Grant brings real-world expertise to every article. He pioneered fractional boat ownership through SailTime and serves on the Texas Boater Safety Advisory Board. NauticEd is the only U.S. sailing education body recognized by the U.S. Coast Guard under American National Standards.

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Last updated on March 28th, 2022