Posted by Grant Headifen on April 17, 2010 under About NauticEd, Skipper, Videos and photos | 
This is day 3 of 6 in your introduction to NauticEd
Today we’ll discuss why and how to fill out your free online boating resume and our free iPhone application which lets you update your boating resume on the fly. We’ve created a helpful Sailing Experience Video to assist in filling out this portion of your profile.
Why fill out your online boating Resume?
Pilots record their flight time in a logbook because it is an absolute must for determining the potential competency of the pilot. The United States Coast Guard and most other country’s coast guard or maritime agencies require a person to document their practical time on the water for professional boating licenses. Yet, in reality few if any sailors document their time in a paper logbook. Practically, it’s just not done.
Charter companies, however, when determining if they will charter a boat to you, will ask sailors every time for a sailing resume and a list of practical experience to ascertain the worthiness of the sailor – and rightly so. Sailors typically scramble to determine their sailing experience and often misquote real experience due to lack of documentation.
Sailors deserve to be recognized for their experience. There is no existing certification that recognizes this because of the previous lack of practicality in logging time on paper.
Times have changed and NauticEd has met the challenge to recognize sailors for their achievements.
NauticEd’s sailing certification uses real practical experience a sailor has achieved to determine levels with each rank. From yesterdays’ email you would have discovered that:
- 10 days = Level I
- 25 days = Level II
- 50 days = level III
- 100 days = Level IV
- 200 days = Level V
Thus each time you update your boating resume, you raise in level. This gives you more credibility with charter companies when looking to take a sailing vacation. Plus, with the push of a button you can print out your resume for review by a charter company. And even better than that, you can simply give a charter company your logbook code and they can review your sailing certification directly online themselves when they go to http://www.nauticed.org/student_verification
Filling out your Sailing Resume
We’ve noticed that you’ve already started filling out your resume. Congratulations. We now want to encourage you to fill it out as completely and accurately as possible so that you gain the maximum benefit from the experience Levels.
Using your IPhone or Facebook
Now this is really cool, after a days sailing you can simply boot up your iphone, run the FREE NauticEd application, hit one button and viola – you’ve logged your day out on the water. Alternatively, you can log any experience past or present via your Facebook page by going to http://aps.facebook.com/nauticed
It’s that simple and easy.
Login to NauticEd Sailing School and visit your experience tab on NauticEd now and complete your boating history. It’s FREE!
Tomorrow well discuss the list of courses available at NauticEd.
Posted by Grant Headifen on April 16, 2010 under About NauticEd, Bareboat Charter, Skipper, Videos and photos |
We produced this video to help you in filling out your NauticEd Sailing Logbook.
All yacht charter sailing companies require you to fill out a sailing logbook or resume when you take a sailing vacation. NauticEd sailing school makes it easy with a free online sailing logbook. Watch this sailing video to learn how to fill out your sailing logbook. If you’re learning to sail, then the NauticEd Sailing School sailing certification with the sailing logbook is what you need to show yacht charter sailing companies that you are a competent sailor.
View the Video NauticEd Sailing Experience Logbook
Posted by Grant Headifen on April 7, 2010 under Coastal Navigation, Crew, Rules of Right of Way, Skipper |
Got a request from a student to point out more through out our courses the need to have on board emergency portable battery powered navigation lights in case of electrical failure – and we couldn’t agree more.
An acquaintance of mine was nearly run down by a high speed ferry in the middle of the night in the cold waters of the Solent in the south of England. He had an electrical fire and had to shut down the breakers AT NIGHT.
Emergency portable white, red and green navigation lights are an essential safety item needed on board. If you own a boat then these should be on and checked for operation before the next time you go out. If you don’t own a boat, forward this blog post to friends that do.
Portable Navigation Lights
They are relatively inexpensive and a quick search on Google for portable navigation light will locate them or just visit to your local chandlery who are more than likely to have them in stock. Some have suction mounts, some have c-clamps and some mount on the pulpit railing.
This is just one of those durh things that we all tend to not think about, but the chances of being hit at night with out lights WHEN you have a electrical failure are so high it’s a shudderer to contemplate the consequences.
Happy sailing!
Posted by Grant Headifen on April 3, 2010 under Crew, Skipper |
We took this from a section in the Crew and Skipper Courses to easily explain the difference between true wind and apparent wind.
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Section 7.2 – True Wind versus Apparent Wind – Explained
Put you hand outside the window of your car traveling at 60 miles per hour on a still day and your hand will feel a 60 mile per hour wind. That’s apparent wind yet the true wind is zero. What if the car was driving into a 20 mile per hour head wind? Your hand would feel 80 mph. Or if the wind was blowing from behind at 20 mph, your hand would feel 40mph.
Now what about a cross wind of 20 miles per hour? Well we need to do a little Pythagorean theorem work on this. What is the square root of the sum of 60 squared plus 20 squared? Your hand would feel 63.24 mph and mostly from a direction in front of the car. If the car accelerated to 100 mph your hand would feel 102 mph again mostly from the front. If the car decelerates to 10 mph your hand would feel 22 mph mostly from the side of the car and if he car stopped you’d feel the full true wind of 20 miles per hour from the side of the car. What ever your hand feels is the apparent wind. The apparent wind equals the true wind when your car is not moving.
When determining direction of the wind, the faster the car goes the more the apparent wind direction comes from the direction of travel of the car. Again imagine the cross wind. At 1 mph the apparent wind feels almost like the true wind from across the car. As the car accelerates the wind feels more and more like it is coming from the front.
This is similar to a boat. The faster the boat sails into the wind, the more the apparent wind speed increases and the more it feels like it is coming from the front of the boat. As a general rule of thumb then, when sailing the true wind is about 15 degrees more towards the back of the boat. IE point to where you feel the wind is coming from then point 15 degrees further back and that is about where the true wind is coming from.
wind vectors, true versus apparent
