Bareboat Archives

Tag Archive for: Bareboat

Sailing in St. Vincent

June 17, 2014/by Grant Headifen

If you like this post – please LIKE it via facebook and G+1 it – thanks it helps us grow The guide books give St. Vincent a bad wrap and many people have told us to give it a miss. Our plan to sail from St. Lucia to Bequia Island however was not quite going […]

Anchoring a Sailboat when Chartering

June 17, 2014/by Grant Headifen

Anchoring an unfamiliar boat Most charter boats use all chain anchor rode. The rules of anchoring say with chain you should use a 5:1 ratio. For example, for an overnight anchorage at a 4 meter depth plus 1 meter from the water line to your boat you should use 5×5 = 25 meters. If you […]

Bareboat Chartering – Shaking out the Bareboat Charter Dust

June 7, 2014/by Grant Headifen

If you like this post – please LIKE it via facebook thanks it helps us grow Hi – Grant Headifen here. I’m about 3 days into a Bareboat Charter trip in Martinique in the Caribbean. This is one of approx. several dozen such trips all over the world that I have taken. I don’t say that […]

How to be a good leader on a sailboat

January 30, 2014/by Grant Headifen

Leadership and Friendship on a Sailboat Adventure This is a pretty embarrassing story for me to tell but I’m going to tell it anyway in first person rather than say “I knew a guy who once who …”. It’s pretty much a result of me getting out of the wrong side of the bed and […]

How To Bareboat Charter – Question

January 15, 2013/by Grant Headifen

Here’s a question from a potential student about how to bareboat charter a yacht. It’s such a good and typical question that I’m posting the answer here. QUESTION >>>> Hi, My girlfriend and I are interested in getting our bareboat certification. Growing up I sailed small Sunfish/Lazer style sailboats on lakes, I have extensive power […]

Top Ten Good Captaining Skills

July 26, 2011/by Grant Headifen

Captaining a bareboat yacht on a sailing vacation is an acquired skill. All of a sudden you’re transformed from friend, co-worker, family and sometimes complete stranger into the authoritative figure with ultimate power. That’s not an easy formula so I’ve put together the top ten tips on how to be a great captain. When people are led […]

How to Get to a Waypoint

September 11, 2010/by Grant Headifen

Recently on our NauticEd flotilla with the Moorings to the Kingdom of Tonga we wanted to pass through the Fanua Tapu Pass which is a gap in the reef to get to the eastern islands of the Vava’u archipelago. Normally the gap is marked by a series of buoys, however the latest storm ate them. The […]

How to Spring off the Dock with a Catamaran

August 12, 2010/by Grant Headifen

Next week we’re going to Tonga and the island of Vava’U for a week long NauticEd Flotilla sailing trip amongst the archipelago. After a rainy and relatively cool winter in New Zealand this year its going to be a welcome and fun trip. We’re bareboat chartering three catamarans from the Moorings. 21 adults and 3 […]

Bareboat Charter Crew Briefing List

May 14, 2010/by Grant Headifen

We received a lot of interest in the Bareboat Charter Course Crew Briefing Check list that we sent out via our mailer earlier in the week. Some additional and excellent tips were sent in by some of you and so we have updated the list. See it now at the bottom of this page: Bareboat […]

Life Saving Tip for downwind sailing

May 10, 2010/by Grant Headifen

Some tips are long and some are short – This short one will save your life or one of your crew. As you know – sailing downwind has the dangerous potential of the accidental gybe. This can be quite a common occurrence if you have an inexperienced crew at the helm or perhaps with a […]