Join Dr. Andy Ward and Bill Ibsen with Grant Headifen as they discuss how to be the most powerful version of yourself when in command of a sailing vessel with friends and family. How do you become the best leader and how to avoid pulling out the "I'm Captain" card. You crew are going to challenge your leadership skills -  how do you leave them with a big wow with your leadership style
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37 - Effective Command through Emotional Intelligence

If you are just getting started in Sailing, here is how NauticEd defines the pathway to competence. Join James Ashton, Instructor with Satori Sailing in Marblehead MA and Grant Headifen, Global Director of Education with NauticEd as they describe the NauticEd way of delivering sailing competence.

38 - Getting - Started - In - Sailing

AIS is "Automatic Information System". We discuss AIS technology - what is AIS and how to use it.

102 - Microtopic series - AIS technology with Ray McCormick

Sailing a boat at night across an ocean has many potential dangers. Here, professional instructor and delivery captain, Ray McCormack, tells us how to be prepared and what is required.

100 - Mircotopic series - Night Sailing

Listen to Grant Headifen and Nitzan Levy discuss the rules of the nautical road. How to avoid collision and how to understand how the rules were developed.

101 - Rules  Of The Nautical Road

A visit with Jude Morel, captain of Lonestar an 85 ft catamaran in the Seychelles and Madagascar

Seychelles and Madagascar Podcast

NauticEd ran a sailing flotilla along the Amalfi Coast. This is our debrief of the area.

Amalfi Coast Sailing Vacation Itinerary

NauticEd podcast: How to be a good leader and skipper on a boat with friends and family aboard. In this episode Captain Kevin introduces Grant Headifen (Director of Education of NauticEd) and Lt. Col Edward O'Conner - Navy Top Gun Marine Adversary. Lt. Col. Edward O'Conner brings his professional military leadership training to the world of sailing. Grant Headifen provides plenty of examples that allows Ed to disect into specific tools that can be applied to provide the desired end state - fun on a boat.

1 - Leadership

In this issue, Captain Kevin invites Bruce Schwaegel, one of NauticEd's top-performing instructors to speak on essential lost skills of most sailors. Experienced or not, many sailors have lost a lot of essential skills because they simply don't perform these operations on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. Learn how to keep your skills alive with this podcast.

2 - What skills should you have to be competent?

In this issue, Captain Kevin introduces Marc Hughston with Santana Sailing in LA California. Marc is one of NauticEd's highest-rated instructors by the students. He runs 5-7 day sailing training courses out of beautiful La Paz, Mexico,  as well as 2-3 day trips out to Catalina Island. He literally wrote the book on Catalina Anchorages,  see https://www.santanasailing.com/courses. Listen to what Marc has to sail about these locations and sail training in these locations.

4 - Bareboat Sailing Training out of La Paz and Catalina Island.

In this issue, Captain Kevin interviews Professional Yacht Charter Captain Bay Peterson who is an expert in the Exumas in the Bahamas. You'll learn about the Exumas and Bay also talks about life as a Professional Captain. Grant Headifen, Director of Education with NauticEd, jumps in with his perspective on when someone is qualified and when they should hire a professional captain and why someone should hire a captain even if they have some experience.

6 - Exumas, Bahamas And Benefits of Hiring A Captain

Guests Alex and Daria Blackwell talk about their lifetime of sailing experiences with multiple times across the Atlantic to Ireland and up and down the USA coast as well as Galicia Spain, Portugal, the Azores, and Southern Ireland Coast. They wrote the book Happy Hooking among others and are authors of the NauticEd Anchoring Course. They also discuss what it takes to become ocean sailors like themselves. A really enjoyable discussion.

8 - Sailing the coasts of both sides of the Atlantic plus Anchoring Skills

Listen as we interview Bob Bitchin Owner of Latitudes and Attitudes Magazine. His philosophy of how sailing and life work so closely together is a wonderful inspiration to us all. He coined the phrase don't dream your life, live your dream. Bob has 75,000 miles and a rouge wave under his hull. Please enjoy our interview with a major force and personality in the sailing world.

9 - BobBitchin - His StoryAndLatitudesAndAttitudes

John and Amanda Neal have a combined 750,000 miles under their hulls. That's a lot of knowledge and adventure, and it's knowledge and adventure that they love to share. First, they help people find and decide which boat is best for them and then they help people gain the knowledge and experience. Listen to John and Amanda as they describe what it has been like doing what they do.

10 - Preparing For Offshore John And Amanda Neal

Ocean adventurers, John and Amanda Neal with Mahina.com discuss seasickness and prevention. With over 45 years at sea and over 1100 guests on their hundreds of ocean adventures, they are extremely qualified on this topic. To accompany this podcast, they have graciously made available a resource on seasickness at http://www.mahina.com/seasick. Listen as we describe how to prevent puking your guts out.

15 - Adventurers  John And Amanda Neal With Mahina Discuss SeaSickness

Our Guest Jasna Tuta has spent nine years on the pacific ocean. Three of those in Polynesia where she wrote the book "All the Colours of Polynesia". She also wrote another book called "A drop in the Ocean", a unique perspective of all the feelings you go through when crossing an ocean for 31 days. She has an amazing story and her message is about how her dreams outweighed her fears. Join us on this journey with an amazing woman, sailor, teacher, learner, explorer, and author. Visit Jasna at www.jasnatuta.com

16 - Jasna Tuta  When  The  Dream Outweighs The  Fear

Come learn about one of the lesser know yacht charter destinations remaining but one of the best-kept secrets,  The Canary Islands. Here, we interview a local expert, Jan Schaeper, about the island archipelago and learn what a great place the Canary Islands are. But be careful, one listen and you'll be booking a yacht charter there either captained or bareboating yourself.

19 A Spin Around The Canary Islands with Lava Charter

We call Tino Prosenik the Poseidon of the Mediterranean. He knows everyone and everyone knows and loves Tino. Today Tino gives us the greatest tour around the Mediterranean and describes the yacht charter scene all over. If you've never been to the Med or only just a few times, you should join Tino and NauticEd on this fantastic journey.

21 - A Tour Around The Mediterranean

Dominique Wright from Sunsail Marketing talks to NauticEd about yacht chartering. Dominique is an accomplished sailor and brings her passion to her work. Sunsail has a special page for NauticEd students with a special gift also at https://hsinfo.sunsail.com/nauticed

24 Sunsail - Boats, Bases, Kids, And Places

In this episode, we interview Luka Skerlev with Navigare Yachting. Navigare is a large yacht charter company with bases all over the world including Croatia.  We discuss in-depth, sailing in Croatia but also introduce you to a world-class charter company.

23 - Navigare - Yachting - And Croatia

Join us with a fantastic interview with Dawn Riley; 4-time America's Cup participant and 2-time Whitbread around the world race. Dawn is now the executive director of Oakcliff Sailing in New York and she has a huge mission. Come discover with us what she intends for the world of sailing.

25 - Dawn - Riley

Listen to Ayme Sinclair’s amazing story of how she has influenced the sailing industry in such a positive way. She is the CEO of Women-Who-Sail and the current VP of the National Women’s Sailing Association. Drawing from her sailing stories and experience, she leads the way for diversity in sailing. She shares how sailing has changed her own life and lead her to be the empowered woman she is today. Visit Ayme Sinclair at http://www.sinclairsocial.com but listen to her story first.

26 - Ayme Sinclair

Come join Amy and David Alton the creators of Out Chasing Stars. How'd they create that? Simple, they sailed around the world, literally chasing stars and exploring all the world has to offer over a 4 year period, all the while documenting as much as they could from costs to videoing the experience. They post their videos on their youtube channel outchasingstars. They can also be seen on their blog, outchasingstars.com. Listen and enjoy to their buoyant attitude as they fill us in on some of the details and wonder.

27 - Out Chasing Stars

Listen to Carrie Wright of VI Plastics Recycling and how she and her company are helping the British Virgin Islands get their plastic recycling program going. If you ever want to take a sailing vacation in the BVI, then you need to know how to reduce your impact on this sensitive ocean nation environment. Visit http://www.viplasticsrecycling.com to learn more about what they are doing and see some of the products they are making out of recycled plastics in the British Virgin Islands.

28  VI  Plastics  Recycling

Join the organizer of the Panama Posse rally, Dietmar Petutschnig, who describes the fantastic sailing voyage from San Diego down through Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, through the Panama canal, then up through the Caribbean to the Florida Keys. This rally happens every year and hundreds of boats join in. Listen to this and decide for yourself if you should join next year. Careful, this will change your life forever.

29 Panama Posse rally. California to Florida Keys

Come join Scott Mayer and Tyler Martin from Bluesail Vacation Yachts and Sailing Academy as they describe how awesome sailing out of Key West can be. From sailing and snorkelling to Key West itself, they describe it all. If you've ever thought about sailing the Key West area, listen in to this captivating description. Here's their facebook page full of great photos - https://www.facebook.com/bluesailcharters

30 Key West and the Dry Tortugas

With BoatyBall.com you make reservations for mooring balls in the BVI. The guys who run BoatyBall, Ty and Bob, are hilarious so we decided to do a dual topic show. Massive Dinghy fails and BVI buoy reservations. Come have a blast with us as we describe crazy dinghy fail stories on vacation while at the same time tell you about how to easily make a buoy reservation in the BVI. "There was this one time that an evil spirit took over our dinghy and..."

32-BoatyBall And Massive Dinghy Fails

Join us with Andrew Hodgdon, a top-selling sailboat broker with The Multihull Yacht Broker Agency and Technical Director for Balance Catamarans. The topic today is how to buy and sell a boat - what to watch out for - the overall process - the survey - and more. Andrew specializes in Catamaran sales and more specifically performance Cats. There is quite a few boat buying and selling gems to pick up here.

33 - The - Boat - Buying - Process

Join Kristi and Jim Query, owners of Virgin Islands Yacht Charters, as they take us for a tour around the USVI. We talk about what it's like to own a yacht charter company, a great USVI itinerary, places not miss, what they require in terms of a sailing resume to charter with them, and in general, why the USVI is such a great place to charter a yacht on a sailing vacation.

34 USVI

Join us as we talk with the folks at Predict Wind,  the world-leading weather prediction app. We discuss how the app works, what makes them the best,  the weather models they use to calculate and determine the weather, weather routing, departure planning, and other technical terms like CAPE. We also discuss how to get a free subscription to the professional version of Predict Wind through your NauticEd student membership.

35 - Predict - Wind

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