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Navigation Practice Exercise

March 10, 2022/by Grant Headifen

Here is a simple navigation practice exercise to practice sailing (navigating) to a waypoint. The exercise is for you to plan to sailing upwind and to a waypoint with 2 tacks.

NauticEd talks to hot new sailing app savvy navvy

May 3, 2019/by Grant Headifen

Talk about NauticEd disrupting the Sailing Education industry, here is a new navigation app that’s making similar waves and it’s very cool. Introducing savvy navvy, the startup working to build the best navigation solution for sailors worldwide. Their mission? To make navigation safer, easier and more convenient for sailors around the globe, making sailing more […]

Antigua Yacht Charter Sailing Vacation With Kids

June 16, 2018/by Grant Headifen

Chronicles of our sailing vacation to Antigua with Dream Yacht Charter Excited – here is our report on our yacht charter sailing trip to Antigua – we’ve got high hopes. Since NauticEd is a global charter agency, we pride ourselves on recommending the proper locations to our clients depending on what they are looking for. […]

Sailing with Kids on a Sailing Vacation with Sunsail

September 6, 2017/by Grant Headifen

How to take Kids on a Sailing Vacation We took our kids on a sailing vacation to the Bahamas with Sunsail in July 2017. Here are two articles: The first (this one) is more about logistics of taking kids and the second one to follow is about the day to day activities we did in […]

What is VMG?

September 5, 2013/by Grant Headifen

VMG – Velocity Made Good and Polar Plots This discussion comes mostly out of our Electronic Navigation Course which is available also as an iPad Electronic Navigation Course App. For sailboats, VMG is slightly different than what you’d expect if you were navigating an airplane or power boat. For airplanes and powerboat VMG is your […]

Autopilot sailing to a waypoint

December 10, 2012/by Grant Headifen

Last weekend the NauticEd crew did a boat delivery for the local Moorings Yacht Charter company in New Zealand. We sailed from Auckland up to the Bay of Islands to deliver the yacht back to its charter base. The yacht was a Beneteau 37 2012 model and was appointed well and in great condition. The […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]