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Sailing in Tahiti: Navigation Tips

June 30, 2012/by Grant Headifen

The NauticEd crew headed out on our annual Bareboat Charter Master Graduation Sailing Trip. Lessons learned and navigation tips sailing in Tahiti.

Coastal Navigation: The Math Behind It

February 27, 2012/by Grant Headifen

Currently we’re working on a cool project with SimRad to create a training simulator for a gps device. But to do that and to write the code and the statement of work for the programmer we had to be very clear about the math behind it all. At least to me, it’s all pretty interesting and […]

Coastal Navigation and Anchoring in Inland Waterways of Australia

January 6, 2012/by Grant Headifen

Where were you over the holidays? Sailing? If you tried to email us over the holidays, you would have gotten a polite “out of the office notice”. We were busy catching up with our Canadian friends who have been sailing the world with their three kids for the past four years on a 42 ft […]

Simplistic Explanation of Latitude and Longitude Determination

October 3, 2011/by Grant Headifen

The posting here is not a course in celestial navigation by any means. However it’s meant to simplify a few principles for you so that you’ll at least have some sort of celestial orientation. And… perhaps it’ll inspire you to learn the aging art. This was written by Grant Headifen, Educational Director of NauticEd. NauticEd […]

Sailing Education is Supposed to be Fun

January 18, 2011/by Grant Headifen

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

There are two types of Sailors

November 16, 2010/by Grant Headifen

They say that there are two types of sailors – those who have hit the bottom and liars. Well, with this blog, I can firmly place myself in type I. I believe the reason “they” (I never really know who “they” are) make this statement is to promote caution, that you’re never too immune from […]

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 […]

Leeway and a Bottle of Rum

June 22, 2010/by Grant Headifen

Leeway is just one of those things that is a law of the universe that we have to put up with. It’s just like gravity. Still with gravity – the advantage is that it’s highly predictable. And so then is leeway. Leeway is the sideways slip motion of our sailboat downwind from the pressure of […]

Emergency navigation lights on board

April 7, 2010/by Grant Headifen

Got a request from a student to point out more through out our courses the need to have on board emergency portable battery powered navigation lights in case of electrical failure – and we couldn’t agree more. An acquaintance of mine was nearly run down by a high speed ferry in the middle of the […]

Cool iPhone App

January 12, 2010/by Grant Headifen

Along with NauticEd’s iphone app to help sailors keep their logbook current, we’ve discovered a new iphone app which helps sailors identify boats at night from their lights they exhibit. It serves as an excellent and handy vessel light identification chart for sailing at night. The aqualights iphone app is very simple to use. It […]