Day 3 of your Introduction to NauticEd

Posted by Grant Headifen on April 17, 2010 under About NauticEd, Skipper, Videos and photos | Be the First to Comment

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.