Posted by admin on April 14, 2011 under About NauticEd, Bareboat Charter, Maneuvering Under Power, Skipper | 
PRESS RELEASE: NauticEd Launches New Sailing Course: Anchoring a Sailboat
Today NauticEd released another sailing course: Anchoring a Sailboat. The sailing course focuses on knowledge required to effectively and successfully anchor a sailboat.
Anchoring a Sailboat Sailing Course
Captain’s Alex and Daria Blackwell, authors of The Art of Anchoring, wrote the NauticEd specific sailing course. The sailing course consists of 12 modules and will be sold for $17 online at http://www.NauticEd.org
The Anchoring a Sailboat sailing course modules are:
- Module 1: Introduction to Anchor Types
- Module 2: Anchor Types
- Module 3: Anchor Selection
- Module 4: Rode and Connections
- Module 5: Site Selection
- Module 6: Charts
- Module 7: Dropping the Anchor
- Module 8: Scope
- Module 9: Setting the Anchor
- Module 10: Swing
- Module 11: Time to Relax
- Module 12: Anchoring Etiquette
Grant Headifen, Educational Director of NauticEd, says that the Anchoring a Sailboat sailing course is a welcome addition to the 12 other sailing courses that NauticEd offers. NauticEd plans to make the Anchoring a Sailboat Course a prerequisite to gaining the NauticEd sailing certification rank of Bareboat Charter Master. “We’d received lots of requests for a comprehensive anchoring course from our students. Anchoring expertise is one of those really important sailing skills that is required and sort after. On a bareboat charter sailing vacation, for example, you spend more time at anchor than you do sailing. And anchoring is a bigger stress on the charterer than most other sailing activities. Charter companies don’t really realize that more people would charter if the stress was taken out of overnight anchoring” says Headifen”.
NauticEd believes that the Anchoring a Sailboat Course will be a big seller and will surpass their popular Maneuvering a Sailboat Under Power sailing course.
To learn more about the NauticEd Sailing School, Sailing Courses and Sailing Certifications go to http://www.nauticed.org
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PRESS RELEASE: NauticEd Encourages Advanced Sailors to Get a Sailing Certification
Click on this button and you’ll be invited to test-out of the NauticEd beginner to intermediate sailor Skipper Sailing Course.
Skipper Sailing Course Test-Out
This is NauticEd’s latest strategy to help advanced sailors get beyond the requirements to sit entry level sailing courses and to focus on advanced education. “What we’ve found is that advanced sailors want the education and the associated sailing certifications, but they’re unwilling to have to go back and study the basics just to get the certification process started” said Grant Headifen, Director of Education for NauticEd.
NauticEd is a big proponent of voluntary Sailing Certifications. Grant Headifen, Educational Director of NauticEd says that “The blockage in the sailing industry certification system is that certifying bodies require advanced sailors to do “101″ type lessons. That prevents advanced sailors from subscribing to any type of sailing certification and thus, more importantly, furthering their formal education”. NauticEd solves this problem by quickly allowing an advanced sailor to prove their knowledge of the basics through the online test-out system and then get on with their real education and NauticEd Certification.
NauticEd mines their Student’s profile to determine their sailing proficiency via the courses the student has taken and passed, their logged experience in the NauticEd Free online logbook or looks to see if the student is the holder of other sailing certifications. Once NauticEd determines that the student possesses advanced skills, they are electronically offered to take the Skipper Sailing Course test-out rather than be required to sit the whole course. The cost for the online Skipper Sailing Course is $67.50, where as the test-out is just $20. The student is then given $20 credit towards any other sailing course that NauticEd offers making the test-out essentially free.
To pass the Skipper Sailing Course test out, the student must pass with a 90% average in all 10 modules of the course. The student is given 3 attempts to pass each module. Upon passing, the student is given free full access to the Skipper Sailing Course for life. If the student fails, they can then apply their $20 credit towards the purchase of the Skipper Course.
NauticEd offers four Ranks of Sailing Certifications and 5 levels with in those ranks. The ranks are Qualified Crew, Skipper, Bareboat Charter Master and Captain. Ranks are dependent on the level of theory education that the student has performed. The Levels range from I through V and are dependant on the amount of experience the student has logged with the FREE NauticEd online logbook. The levels and ranks are interdependent, in that, certain ranks can not be attained without practical experience. A proficiency stamp is also applied to the certification if the student has done a practical test-out of skills with an affiliated sailing instructor. The sailing instructor digitally marks the student’s certification online once the student is deemed practically proficient.
After a soft launch of the Skipper test-out system, NauticEd reported it was well received with its beta tested advanced students.
To learn more about the NauticEd Sailing School and Sailing Certifications go to http://www.nauticed.org
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