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Tag Archive for: Safety

How to fuel up your sailboat

January 12, 2014/by Grant Headifen

If you like this post – please  “LIKE” it and g+1  it – It helps keep our waterways clean. Here’s how to fuel up your sailboat without spilling a drop of fuel into the water. Hi all – for years I struggled with fueling up the boat and trying my best to not spill any […]

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Man Overboard

May 30, 2013/by Grant Headifen

In this post I want to tell a few stories that will alert you to the fact that MOB is going to happen to you, and often when you least expect

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How to cure seasickness naturally

March 10, 2013/by Grant Headifen

On our most recent yacht charter to the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, we encountered one day with reasonably high swell and only about 10 knots of wind. Being on a broad reach was not the ideal heading for this but alas this is the direction we wanted to go – from the Bay of […]

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PRESS RELEASE: Boating Safety Technology

November 8, 2012/by Grant Headifen

Press Release Contact: Grant Headifen                                                            FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9AM, CST, November 8 , 2012 Ground Breaking Technology – for Boating Safety “John you should meet Joe – he’s a big time sailor” – You’ve heard that plenty of times before – but is Joe really a big time sailor? What’s the gauge? And what about […]

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Mayday Mayday Mayday: Collision at Sea

April 26, 2012/by Grant Headifen

The more time you spend on the ocean the more incidences you will encounter. Here’s a life threatening event that happened to me this week.

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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. […]

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More about Heaving-to in a sailboat

August 18, 2011/by Grant Headifen

This is an add on to the last post we did on heaving to. I was looking over our Storm Tactics online sailing course and found this image we created which best shows a boat in a heave-to situation in a storm. They say a pic is worth a thousand words so with this blog […]

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Sailboat Mast Height

March 9, 2011/by Grant Headifen

Know your sailboat mast height! Some lessons learned from encountering over-water power lines during a bareboat sailing trip.

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Press Release – New Safety at Sea Online Sailing Course

November 24, 2010/by Grant Headifen

Today, NauticEd Sailing School announced the posting of its online Safety at Sea Course. Written by Captain Ed Mapes who has logged close to 100,000 miles on the ocean, the Safety at Sea course focuses on safety and rigging issues that sailors will experience at sea. In the introduction to the sailing course, Captain Mapes […]

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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 […]

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