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NauticEd and MarineVerse Launch World’s First Virtual Reality Navigation Rules Course

March 2, 2023/by Grant Headifen

NauticEd and MarineVerse today jointly announced the launch of the world’s first-ever Virtual Reality Navigation Rules Training Course. This fully immersive VR course is designed to make learning navigation rules both enjoyable for users and effective for educators, using gamification techniques to entertain and increase knowledge retention.

NauticEd and MarineVerse Launch World’s First Virtual Reality Sailing Course

October 5, 2022/by Grant Headifen

The virtual reality sailing training is expected to revolutionize sailing education by better preparing and entertaining sailors.

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 […]

How to gybe a sailboat single handed

November 13, 2015/by Grant Headifen

I do this all the time, but I was out with a friend the other day and he was asking me to lead him through the details. I thought it was obvious but apparently not. Oh – and if you like this little tip and it helps – please LIKE it and LIKE us over […]

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 […]

How to Steer a Sailboat

August 28, 2014/by Grant Headifen

Sailing the helm of a sailboat should come naturally to you, just like riding a bike. Let’s go over steering.

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. […]

Practical Sailing Schools “get” NauticEd

December 18, 2008/by Grant Headifen

All the reasons why sailing schools should be linked to NauticEd