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Tag Archive for: Docking

9 Essential Knots Every Sailor Should Know

June 15, 2024/by Bill Ibsen

Unleash your inner sailor with Bill Ibsen’s guide to 9 essential knots. From bights to bitter ends, master the art of knot tying.

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Learn How to Maneuver in a Marina like an Expert

June 20, 2023/by Grant Headifen

Become an expert at maneuvering and docking your sailboat in a marina. Learn over 360 fundamental docking scenarios with no fear of mistakes. The MarineVerse/NauticEd Virtual Reality App on meta quest contains a Maneuvering and Docking a Sailboat Under Power experiential training course whereby the physics is essentially identical to a real situation.

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What is Propwalk on a Sailboat?

April 11, 2023/by Grant Headifen

What is propwalk? You want your new sailboat to go backwards but you keep going sideways. Welcome to propwalk.

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Maneuvering a Sailboat out of a Tight Slip

February 17, 2022/by Grant Headifen

Maneuvering a Sailboat out of a tight slip does not need to be stressful or embarrassing. Learn how to use your spring line in challenging crosswinds.

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Mooring, Anchoring, and Docking

March 22, 2020/by Grant Headifen

Before you leave/approach a dock, pick up a mooring ball, or drop anchor, you must know what the wind and current will be doing to your boat.

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How to Spring into a Tight Space on a Dock

January 27, 2017/by Grant Headifen

Maneuvering your gorgeous sailboat under power in the marina is one of the more important skills to learn. Wind, current and tight spaces can be very intimidating and not knowing all the tricks can lead to expensive mistakes as well as serious ego damage. NauticEd‘s new paper book titled “Maneuver and Dock Your Sailboat Under […]

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Angular Momentum When Backing into a Slip

August 24, 2015/by Grant Headifen

Backing into a slip is indeed an art form. But once you learn it you’ll be proud of it and your crew will be impressed. If you like this little tidbit of information, LIKE us on facebook Here is a situation that comes up when needing to make a tight turn into the slip. During […]

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High Wind Docking Maneuvers

August 22, 2015/by Grant Headifen

How to back your sailboat into a slip with a high cross wind against the direction of propwalk. If you like this post please like us on facebook over there ——-> Watch this animation. It deals with an extremely high wind situation. The trouble is that you are wanting to turn the boat against propwalk […]

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How to Sail Your Boat to the Dock

May 28, 2015/by Grant Headifen

We created these animations to show the process of sailing your boat to the dock when approaching from an up-wind or down-wind position. If you like posts like this then please LIKE it on facebook and also LIKE our facebook page over there ——> You’ll get notifications when we post cool stuff like this. These are […]

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How to ferry your boat into the dock

May 17, 2015/by Grant Headifen

Ya gotta love this one. LIKE it on facebook please to spread the enLIKEnment. Another Maneuvering technique for your bag of tricks. This is a great trick we learned in the Bahamas last week when doing our ICC license with Mark Thompson from Yachting Education. Mark has been instructing students for 30 years and has […]

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