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Sailing Schools – Teach how to Sail to Millennial Students

June 9, 2013/by Grant Headifen

We live in a world where Millennials are making up more and more of our customers. eLearning is everywhere and now expected.

Short sailing tip with big sailing lesson and slight humor

August 29, 2011/by Grant Headifen

This is a real story with some details left out to protect the not so innocent. But it serves as a great sailing lesson to all of us and could save your boat from sinking. Read on! It was a regular weekend yacht club regatta – that turned out to be not so regular. […]

Thanks For Referring Students to NauticEd

January 18, 2011/by Grant Headifen

NauticEd’s online sailing school recent growth spurt has been due to our students telling other students about us. So we have implemented a reward system for that awesome behavior. Introducing NauticEd’s Social Expansion Loop Program. Watch the video here. Essentially – you can now set up your own NauticEd Promocode and give it out to […]

Press Release: All Women Crew in Rolex Regatta

October 9, 2010/by Grant Headifen

SAILING WOMEN INVITED TO RACE IN THE 38TH ANNUAL ST. THOMAS INTERNATIONAL ROLEX REGATTA Escape the winter blahs and learn how to sail by joining the fun and excitement of participating with an all-woman crew in beautiful St. Thomas, USVI, March 2011! NauticEd and Safe Passage Sailing, LLC invite you to “sail with the best” […]

Press Release: Rolex Regatta

October 9, 2010/by Grant Headifen

SAILING ENTHUSIASTS INVITED TO RACE IN THE 38TH ANNUAL ST. THOMAS INTERNATIONAL ROLEX REGATTA Escape the winter blahs and join the fun and excitement of participating in this world class event in beautiful St. Thomas, USVI, March 2011! NauticEd and Safe Passage Sailing, LLC invite you to “sail with the best” in this celebrated international […]

Stopping Rounding Up Dead in it’s Tracks

June 8, 2010/by Grant Headifen

Rounding up is caused by many factors. One is too much wind and force aloft which tends to heel the boat over. This reduces the amount of rudder in the water and thus the rudder’s effectiveness. Another factor in rounding up is the center of pressure of wind on the sails is too far aft […]

Day 4 of Introduction to NauticEd

May 15, 2010/by Grant Headifen

This is day 4 of 6 in your introduction to NauticEd International Sailing School. Watch the video and/or read the text below. Today we’ll help you discover which courses are best suited for you personally. We developed a series of 11 quick questions that will easily eliminate any confusion about which course you should be […]

NED the world’s coolest sailing instructor – teaching people to learn to sail

February 14, 2010/by Grant Headifen

This is a FREE learn to sail application which the NauticEd team developed. We’ve made it so that anyone can have access to it for free. The application is called NED. When you’re first getting started in sailing, trying to figure out how the sails should be set according to the wind angle can be […]

Sailing Resume – Logbook

January 18, 2010/by Grant Headifen

Here is a question posted by Nancy KnudsenEditor Sail-World Cruising. Sail-world is one of the largest and respected online sailing news companies ) to NauticEd this week. Followed by our answer. On 1/16/10 6:47 PM, “Nancy Knudsen Cruising Editor Sail-World” <cruisingeditor@sail-world.com> wrote: Hi Grant I have a question about the sailing certification video you have […]

Learning to hold a straight course

February 6, 2009/by Grant Headifen

One issue that appears most often with new sailors learning to sail is focusing too much attention on the electronic wind meter or the wind direction indicator (the pointy arrow thing at the top of the mast). The windmeter above which is installed on most modern sailboats shows that the wind is coming from 60 […]