Tag Archive for: Catamaran

How to Sail a Catamaran

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Catamaran Sailing Course   Along with the very exciting news of NauticEd  joining forces with Lagoon Catamarans to bring Catamaran Sailing education to the market, we have announced our latest update to the Catamaran Sailing Confidence Course. The interactive Catamaran Sailing Confidence Course is available online in browser and  PDF format and as an App […]

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Catamaran Maneuvering and Docking

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How to Maneuver a Large Catamaran Below you will find a very useful animation that will help show the relative throttle positions on dual throttle controls when maneuvering or docking a large Catamaran. Animations like this one are embedded throughout our Catamaran Sailing course, as well as several of our other sailing courses. You will […]

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Americas Cup Apparent Wind

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Apparent Wind on Americas Cup AC72’s   BTW – please “Like”this article using your favorite social media accounts – thanks for that. See here for the TV Schedule for all countries. Who’s taking it home? AmericasCup.com So how do they do it? I was watching it on Sunday – the wind was at about 15 […]

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Catamaran Sailing Game by NauticEd

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Here is a youtube post by one of our talented students who gets a perfect score playing our Catamaran Maneuvering game. I’m guesssing a few hours were involved here but I’m pretty sure that given this amount of maneuvering experience in real life, Andrew would be an expert at maneuvering a catamaran around in a […]

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Reefing a Catamaran

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Here’s a question from a student. >>>>>>> Grant, I would like some clarification on the steps taken to reef a main sail on a cat.  I’m going out on a 48ft cat and prob want to reef the sail before i go out…. Do i reef it while at the dock or in the water […]

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Sailing Around the world in… I don’t know … days

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Last weekend we met up with our friends Chris and Christine Ellsay in Nelson New Zealand. Chris and Chris, with their three kids aged 10, 8 and 6 are sailing around the world and it was refreshing to hear them say – “I don’t know how long we’ll take”. They’re 3 years into it and […]

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How to Spring off the Dock with a Catamaran

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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 […]

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