20 point plan to rig for heavy weather
1. Reduce sail to the appropriate sail plan early. 2. Make storm sails ready. 3. Secure all deck gear 4. Fill fuel tanks from jerry jugs if necessary 5. Secure companionway slides and hatch closed and...
View ArticleMooring Accident
While it is generally accepted that mooring is safer than anchoring, there are still some considerations. The following photo from Waiake beach in Auckland, New Zealand is proof of this. Whilst...
View ArticleWhat about COB – Captain overboard?
Last week we made a pretty good point about using the engine as your first method of pick up when you have a man overboard while under sail. And it was quite well received by followers – thanks. Many...
View ArticleLife Saving Tip for downwind sailing
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...
View ArticleDay 4 of Introduction to NauticEd
This is day 4 of 6 in your introduction to NauticEd Today we’re discussing the list of courses and clinics that NauticEd offers for your education. One of the first course we believe that all sailors...
View ArticleTypes of Anchors and bottom types that they are best suited.
As you learn to sail, you should be also learning about anchoring. There is more to tossing the hook so to speak. After doing some research on the internet and looking at some of the tests performed on...
View ArticleSave Big on NauticEd Courses and Clinics
Hooowa – said Al Pacino in the movie Sent of a Woman. We recently launched a new Sailing Courses and Clincs Page. The first thing you’ll notice is that we have Bundled the Courses and Clinics into...
View ArticlePress Release -NauticEd Releases Captain’s Rank
Today, NauticEd Online Sailing School announced its release of the NauticEd Captain’s Rank. This coincides with the posting of the NauticEd Safety at Sea Clinic which is the final required course to...
View ArticleSailing Around the world in… I don’t know … days
Last weekend we met up with our friends Chris and Christine Ellsay in Nelson New Zealand. Chris and Chris, with their three kids aged 10, 8 and 6 are sailing around the world and it was refreshing to...
View ArticleYacht Club Intelligence: NauticEd Sailing School Press Release
Imagine if you could just hang out at the yacht club every day – how much you’d learn from everyone. That’d be cool. Well … now you can! It’s a very cool piece of technology we just installed on the...
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