Tag Archive for: Yacht Charter

Top Ten Good Captaining Skills

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Captaining a bareboat yacht on a sailing vacation is an acquired skill. All of a sudden you’re transformed from friend, co-worker, family and sometimes complete stranger into the authoritative figure with ultimate power. That’s not an easy formula so I’ve put together the top ten tips on how to be a great captain. When people are led […]

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Going on a Yacht Charter Vacation? Here’s a tip!

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Here’s a great tip for yacht charter vacations. Problem: You buy provisions at the start of the trip. You load them carefully into the top loading freezer with the best intentions of using everything. Through out the week every thing gets messed up. Stuff ends up at the bottom. At the end of the week […]

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Sailing Certification Question

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Here is a question posted by one of our students today with our response following. On 6/4/10 1:54 PM, “Ted” wrote:   I have recently started through your courses in the hope of chartering next winter. My own boat is a 25′ Catalina. From your information it appears that I will not receive credit for […]

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Bareboat Charter Crew Briefing List

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We received a lot of interest in the Bareboat Charter Course Crew Briefing Check list that we sent out via our mailer earlier in the week. Some additional and excellent tips were sent in by some of you and so we have updated the list. See it now at the bottom of this page: Bareboat […]

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Sailing Resume – Logbook

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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 […]

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