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Grant Headifen

About Grant Headifen

My vision for NauticEd is to provide the highest quality sailing and boating education available - and deliver competence wherever sailors live and go.

Entries by Grant Headifen

Outboard Engines

October 15, 2024/by Grant Headifen

Outboard engines have traditionally been associated with smaller boats, but advancements in technology have led to the development of high-horsepower outboard engines that are now commonly used on larger powerboats, including those over 26 feet.

Understanding Wind

October 15, 2024/by Grant Headifen

Winds can be gentle, hardly felt, like zephyrs flitting about in a local area, or they can be vast movements of air moving swiftly across oceans and continents at low and high altitudes.

Why Anchor?

October 14, 2024/by Grant Headifen

There are many reasons for anchoring your boat: Emergencies.

Designing the Spring Line Maneuver

October 14, 2024/by Grant Headifen

Like a work of fine engineering, a spring maneuver requires a design. The key is to plan the maneuver by…

Introduction to Spring Lines

October 13, 2024/by Grant Headifen

Essentially, spring lines are just long dock lines.

Multiple Anchors

October 13, 2024/by Grant Headifen

There are occasions when more than one anchor will add safety and comfort. One possibility is to use one or two anchors from the bow, one from the stern, or both.

Anchoring Introduction

October 11, 2024/by Grant Headifen

Ensuring that your boat is in the same place you left it is a very important skill. There are also other factors to consider: depth under keel and surrounding area depth, tidal currents, low tide depth, other boats in proximity, wind speed and direction changes, type of bottom, and length of stay. All factors play into your anchoring decisions.

Springing On and In when Docking

October 10, 2024/by Grant Headifen

Coming into a slip is usually not a problem and does not require a spring because you merely drive the boat using either forward or reverse.

Sound Signals

October 10, 2024/by Grant Headifen

Sound signals are defined and prescribed in the Navigation Rules for International and Inland Waters. Sound has an advantage over light signals, in that it can be used when vision fails.

Magnetism in Boating

October 10, 2024/by Grant Headifen

We begin understanding electrical energy with a phenomenon called magnetism. This phenomenon was known thousands of years before electricity.

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