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Sailing & Powerboat Courses
Over 30 multimedia online and mobile device sailing and powerboat courses for beginners through advanced training. All surpassing international standards.
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A global network of sailing and powerboating instructors integrating your knowledge learned online with practical on-the-water training and certification by American National Standards.
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Courses by rank or specialized skill courses
Show me the ropes - I'm just getting started
Actually, there are four ropes on a boat: the bell rope, the bucket rope, the life ring rope, and the bolt rope. Just saying, because there are a lot of crusty ol’ sailors that say there are no ropes on a boat. Don't get us started on crusty know-everything sailors. Anyway …
To eventually become a confident and competent crew member or skipper, you need theoretical knowledge and practical skills and experience. Makes sense, right?
BUT, what is the pathway for you to gain the competence you need? At NauticEd, we have put that pathway together but our software platform allows for individualization. Everyone's goals are different, everyone starts from a different place, and everyones learning rate is different. This is why our courses are in multi-media format and are put together in bite sized modules to make learning easy and make the learning stick.
Simply, an interactive animation can save a thousand or more words and have a far lasting effect. Thus, you will be experiencing a 21st century approach to learning sailing and/or power boating. In addition, with NauticEd, you will experience NASBLA and the US Coast Guard's American National Standards training standards for boating. This means your certifications, if and when, issued are backed by true competence standards.
When you create a FREE account with NauticEd, the software platform will guide you and track your boating knowledge, skills, and experience growth. Simply by telling us your goals and experience at the top of this page, we will begin to help you with which are the best recommended courses for you personally, a professional practical training instructor, and we'll give you a free electronic logbook that tracks your on-the-water experience as well as a free resume builing tool that tells you how far you are along in reaching your goals. It’s the 21st century way of becoming a competent boater - to match YOU!
For sailing, if you're new, we recommend that you start with Introduction to Sailing which is just $27. However, if you want to see how we roll first before your investment, take our fun FREE Basic Sail Trim course. In this course, you’ll learn about the wind and its forces on the sails through a series of interactive animations. It's a wee bit more advanced than totally basic so you might be flummoxed with some of the terminology. Don't worry, we cover all that in the Introduction to Sailing course. After we have built your confidence in yourself and us, if you want to become a competent skipper, we have two easy choices to continue.
- Skipper Small Keelboat: This follows the American National Standards (EDU-3) and when combined with on-the-water training is approved as meeting the American National Standard for sailing training and assessment. It is for those who want to competently skipper their own smaller keelboat up to about 25 feet (8m)
- Skipper Large Sailboat: This builds further on the American National Standards and are for those starting out on a bigger boat 26 feet to 56 feet (8m to 18m).
For powerboating, we recommend everyone start with the FREE Navigation Rules Course for Powerboats. The course is a fresh take on the rules or giveway and because it is in mulitmedia format, it will help you retain the information better. After we have built your confidence in yourself and us, if you want to become a competent skipper, we have two easy choices to continue.
- Skipper Small Powerboat: This follows the American National Standards (EDU-1) and when combined with on-the-water training is approved as meeting the American National Standard for sailing training and assessment. It is for those who want to competently skipper their own smaller powerboat up to about 25 feet (8m)
- Skipper Large Powerboat: This builds further on the American National Standards and are for those starting out on a bigger powerboat 26 feet to 56 feet (8m to 18m).
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For practical on-the-water training, we strongly encourage you to gain professional instruction from one of our affiliated training instructors who we recognize as meeting the American National Standards. Our instructors are highly trained, qualified, and socially rated by previous students; this information is viewable on the school's NauticEd page. This allows you to be confident that you are receiving the best instruction and direction as you begin your boating journey. Gaining more experience can be as simple as getting on the water with friends, with the local yacht club, a shared boat club, a paid sharing arrangement with a friend's boat, or on your own boat.
As you gain confidence and competence at one level, we encourage you to go back to the training instructor and gain further practical knowledge to raise to the next level. You enter all this experience (and any past experiences) into your FREE electronic Logbook. Plus, your instructors will digitally sign your logbook at your competence levels. It's the world's most technologically advanced and simply structured boating education program.
Our proprietary algorithm analyzes the courses you have passed and your practical boating experience and then issues Rank and Level Certifications based on your accomplishments. Simultaneously, our badge program directs and guides you to perform micro tasks which educate you about proper boating habits and knowledge like checking your EPIRB or side-stay turnbuckles. And don’t worry, by the time you finish our courses you’ll be eating sailing and boating terms for breakfast.
At every step of the way, we are in the background building your globally recognized boating resume and guiding you as to what to do next.
There is so much more to NauticEd that you will learn about on your guided journey to becoming a confident and competent sailor or power boater. The best thing for now however, is that you can start for FREE with a FREE elogbook and resume building tool - oh and a free boating course. Just sign up. It is that easy.
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Be a competent inland and near-shore skipper
To us, you’re already the smartest boater out there. Too many times we all hear “I got it, you don’t need to teach me anything” or even just an insulting "I know" comment can create danger - you just trained your crew to not say anything - ever. Yet these are the folks shown in the YouTube video collages of greatest boating bungles. The prudent boater is the one who says “You can never teach me too much”.
To become a confident and competent sailor, you need theoretical knowledge, practical skills, and practical experience. Makes sense, right?
While NauticEd teaches all courses to international sailing and boating standards, we are nationally approved by the United States Coast Guard and our SLC sailing license is accepted internationally including all countries in the Mediterranean. Thus, NauticEd guides you through it all: online multimedia courses and testing, professional practical training schools, and a free electronic logbook that tracks your on-the-water experience. All the while, our software simultaneously and automatically builds you a globally accepted sailing and boating resume. It’s the 21st century way of becoming a competent sailor or power boater!
For you, we have some great multimedia courses that are going to up your game, keep you off YouTube, and make your crew follow your leadership because you know what you’re doing with certainty and confidence - and, it is obvious.
But as you know, just passing an online course is not going to make you a competent sailor. You must have practical skills experience as well. This is why we provide you with a FREE electronic logbook into which you enter past and present practical on-the-water experience. Entries can be as simple as days sailing with friends, the local yacht club, a shared boat club, on your own boat, or you can formalize it with any of our affiliated professional schools.
We have also built the world's best and most professional network of trusted American National Standards on-water instructors. And, we have instilled in them a culture of competence. Meaning, they take the word certification seriously. They know what the words "I certify" really mean. That when they sign you off as competent, they are putting their professional objective opinion of you on the line by saying "I certify that in my professional opinion you can handle what the ocean will throw at you to the grade I am signing you off". That's serious! For you it means that when you choose NauticEd, you're choosing COMPETENCE.
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As you continue to grow your theoretical knowledge and practical on-the-water experience, NauticEd is there - keeping track for you. Every time you pass a course, make an entry into your electronic logbook or perform a badge task, our algorithm automatically calculates and builds your sailing resume for you. So while we issue Sailing and Powerboating Certifications that are globally accepted, we focus more on ensuring you become worthy of having the helm in your hands. Thus the resume and thus the word "COMPETENCE"
Deciding between an apple or an orange can sometimes make you think - "which one". But having to decide between Competence or a Certification is a no brainer for the prudent. Competence means you have the knowledge, skills, and experience to make the right choices when safety choices are presented. A certification given during a weekend course? Well, at best, mounted in a nice frame on your office wall can be a conversation starter.
At NauticEd, we have a competence culture. We deliver competence and we will tell you when you are not. We are not here to sell certifications and likelyyou are not here to collect shiny stickers. Our American National Standards instructors are fully trained to identify weaknesses in your skills and help you work through those BEFORE it becomes a problem. Then and only then - after competence is identified, you will receive an American National Standards Certification - which actually means something to you AND globally.
We have arranged our courses into bundles that probably align with your goals - or you can buy any course a-la-carte to improve your knowledge in a particular area. For inland or near-shore knowledge and skills competence, likely the "Skipper" Bundles and the Skipper Practical Training with our Professional American National Standards instructors are what you need.
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Be the skipper on a yachting vacation
We always say there is nothing better than taking a yachting vacation, and if you can think of something better, well … you can do it on a yachting vacation anyway.
To become a confident and competent Bareboat Charter Master, you need theoretical knowledge and practical experience. Makes sense, right?
But don’t fall into the “certification” trap. In order to safely charter a ½ million dollar boat and guide friends and family through ocean waters, a shiny bareboat charter certification sticker earned in a two-weekend cram will never suffice. We have interviewed dozens of the world’s top yacht charter companies and they all have one requirement in common in order to let you charter one of their boats: it is a sailing RESUME demonstrating you are truely worthy to take out their yacht. It must display sufficient theoretical knowledge as well as an acceptable amount of practical experience.
Plus, in the Mediterranean and the Seychelles, you need a Boating License. NauticEd's SLC is the perfect and legally accepted answer. If you are an already experienced sailor, the SLC is easy and simple to gain. For newer boaters, we have an easy pathway to competence and eventual licensure.
NauticEd guides you through becoming properly licensed and recognized for bareboat chartering competence: online multimedia courses and testing, professional practical training instructors, and a free electronic logbook that tracks your on-the-water experience. All the while, our software simultaneously and automatically builds you a globally accepted boating resume. It’s the 21st century way of becoming a recognized competent boater!
First, we start you out with our Bareboat Charter Master Bundle of multimedia interactive courses and tests. They contain all the theoretical knowledge you need to know including: coastal and electronic navigation, anchoring, maneuvering a large boat in a marina, leadership skills, living aboard, dinghy skills and much more.
Then you enter your past and present practical on-the-water experience into your FREE electronic logbook. Entries can be as simple as days out sailing and boating with friends, the local yacht club, a shared boat club, on your own boat, and/or if you need more formalized training or a refresher, you can learn with any of our affiliated professional practical training instructors.
All the while, NauticEd is keeping track for you. Every time you pass a course, make an entry into your electronic logbook or perform a badge task, our algorithm automatically calculates and builds your international accepted boating resume demonstrating your Rank of Bareboat Charter Master. This is what all yacht charter companies require. Read on ...
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The Bareboat Charter Master Certification Rank for Sailboats requires the Bareboat Charter Master Bundle of sailboat courses:
- Skipper Large Sailboat
- Maneuvering Under Power
- Bareboat Chartering
- Anchoring
- Coastal Navigation
- Electronic Navigation
You can access these courses individually or as one bundle.
The Bareboat Charter Master Certification Rank for Powerboats requires the Bareboat Charter Master Bundle of Powerboat of courses:
- Skipper Large Powerboat
- Bareboat Chartering
- Coastal Navigation
- Electronic Navigation
You can access these courses individually or as one bundle.
In addition to the theory knowledge courses, you should have an adequate amount of experience skippering and appropriate type and size boat. NauticEd has also put together the Bareboat Yacht chartering program so that there is no doubt in your mind that you have the proper knowledge and skills to ensure your vacation goes off with out a hitch. If in any manner, you have doubts about bareboat chartering after finishing the courses, then you should get with one of our practical on-water instructors. They will run you through an assessment to help you find any weaknesses. The very last thing you want to do is to arrive on location not even knowing that you have a weakness. Think PRUDENCE!
To gain the NauticEd SLC international sailing and boating license valid for European waters, you must complete the appropriate Bareboat Charter Master Rank and do a 1 day assessment of your skills. But don't mistake the simplicity of the process for ease of good knowledge and proper skills. The SLC has high standards, standards that keep people off youtube's best boating bungles videos and keep their friends and family safe on the water.
So, here is a big bold audacious challenge for you: achieve your internationally accepted NauticEd Bareboat Charter Master Rank and an SLC, then go skipper the most amazing yachting vacation of your life.
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The deep blue and beyond
Religious or not, they say that you will meet God on the ocean at some time. The ocean demands that you be prepared and able to handle what it will throw at you. It has a way of teaching you what you don’t know.
That said, maximum preparedness is the key. But you already know that; that is why you are here now. You know that to be safe, you need theoretical knowledge and significant practical experience. But how much knowledge and how much experience?
NauticEd guides you through it all: online multimedia courses and testing, professional practical training schools both near shore and offshore, a free electronic logbook that tracks your on-the-water experience, and badges that teach you proper and safe boating behavior. All the while, our software simultaneously and automatically builds you a globally accepted sailing and boating resume and international license (the SLC). It’s the 21st century way of becoming a competent sailor of boater!
For sailors, we recommend you start out with the Captain’s bundle of online multimedia courses. For offshore power boaters, our courses can be accessed al la carte. We recommend the Bareboat Charter Master bundle of courses for powerboats plus add Weather, Safety at Sea, and Storm Tactics courses. These ready you for the deep blue and beyond: understanding global weather systems, storm tactics, and safety at sea knowledge such as how to ditch into a life raft, what should already be stored in your ditch bag, global communication systems, what to do if you lose your rudder or hit a container, and how to repair shredded sails. We also focus on life aboard and simple tips and tricks to make life easier. If you are serious about getting off shore, then this is the bundle of courses for you.
But as you know, just passing an online course is not going to make you a competent blue water sailor or boater. You must have practical experience as well. This is why we provide you with a FREE electronic logbook into which you enter past and present practical on-the-water experience. Entries can be as simple as days on the water with friends, the local yacht club, a shared boat club, on your own boat. We also introduce you to specialized training schools that focus on offshore training. You’ll have an opportunity to join their passages and see for yourself the wonder and, truth-be-told, sometimes hardship of an ocean passage. Read on ...
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The Offshore Captain Rank for Sailboats requires the Captain Bundle of courses:
- Skipper
- Maneuvering Under Power
- Bareboat Chartering
- Anchoring
- Coastal Navigation
- Electronic Navigation
- Storm Tactics
- Global Weather Systems
- Advanced Sail Trim
- Safety at Sea
Access individually or as one bundle.
Start now by signing up for the NauticEd Captain’s Bundle of Courses and begin filling out your FREE NauticEd practical logbook.
Plus many of our instructors have vast experience and have sailing the world experience themselves. See our network of practical instructors that can help you with your audacious goal
View the Captain Bundle of Courses here
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How NauticEd works?
Why Learn the Theory?
Online, at home, in your own time multimedia theory learning integrates perfectly with on-the-water practical teaching to make you a confident and competent sailor or powerboater.
Click to view more“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” Socrates
To be a confident and competent sailor or boater, you have to have theory knowledge. Even if you are experienced, there is always more to learn. Theory covers broad topics like the rules of the nautical road, understanding tides, and coastal navigation as well as minute tips and tricks.
For example: How do you lift a heavy man back on board? Should you let out the main sheet or the traveler, why? Can you convert true to magnetic in an instant? What is the best anchor to use for a rock bottom? What is a cardinal mark? What does an isolated danger mark look like?
A solid theoretical boating education will enable you to apply this knowledge to your on the water experiences.
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Why online? Welcome to the 21st Century for sailing and boating education! NauticEd offers online multimedia theory courses that integrate perfectly with on-the-water practical training and experience.
- Easy & Immediate Access: Learn at your own pace, at home, on an airplane, in a coffee shop or waiting in the doctor’s office. Mobile or laptop. With in seconds of signing up, you are learning.
- Instant Results & Resume: Online, real-time grading of tests and other tools allow you to evaluate your learning. Completed courses show instantly on your resume.
- Retention: Multimedia format with interactive animations, videos, and colorful graphics hold your attention and aid retention.
- Social Learning Environment: With NauticEd’s nano forums, students can collaborate with fellow students and instructors.
- Better Use of On-The-Water Training: Maximize your practical training time by showing up already knowledgeable and tested.
Try us out right now with a FREE interactive multimedia class. We guarantee you will learn something fun - Basic Sail Trim for sailors - or Navigation Rules for Powerboaters.
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Boating Resume vs Boating Certification
Ask any yacht charter company and they all will tell you that they require a complete sailing or boating resume; not a certification. NauticEd helps build and store your sailing and boating resume in the cloud - for FREE.
Click to view moreThink about a job application. A person with solid educational credentials as well as real world experience gets the best job. Same with sailing and powering boating. In anything, theory knowledge plus practical skills plus experience makes the person competent at what they do - would you agree?
NauticEd’s proprietary software combines your theoretical sailing and boating courses with your logged practical on-the-water experience and all your other boating accomplishments such as certifications and licenses into a full boating resume demonstrating your sea-worthiness.
At certain milestones along the way, we’ll issue you a ‘certification”, but only after you have passed the theoretical courses and logged the requisite experience. Your certification will list your rank and level: Rank relates to the courses you have taken and Level corresponds to your practical experience. But you can’t get one without the other. That’s because education and experience go hand in hand.
If you need a sailing or powerboating license for European waters, our software will issue your SLC or SLC-p instantly the moment you achieve all the practical and theory requirements.
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Additionally, when you are assessed by an instructor according to American National Standards rubrics or International Standards rubrics, your Rank and Level becomes Verified. When your experience is affirmed by your CrewMates ™ your experience is Authenticated.
All this takes place in the background by our software. Your resume simply grows automatically as you get out on the water and learn. And that’s why yacht charter companies worldwide LOVE our Resume/Certification program. And why countries who require a proper legal sailing or boating license, accept the NauticEd SLC. You will LOVE what we do for you.
Sign up now and get a free resume building tool and a free eLogbook. Also check your curriculum once you are in - we have a free getting started boating course there waiting for you.
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Get a Free Boating eLogbook
When you sign up for FREE, we give you a free boating logbook. Why?
Click to view moreWhether you’re a new or experienced sailor or powerboater, electronically logging your on-the-water experience is the best way to track your own growth and demonstrate your sea worthiness to yourself and to others.
This is why NauticEd provides you with a FREE electronic logbook into which you enter your past and present practical on-the-water experience. Entries can be as simple as a day boating with friends, the local yacht club, a shared boat club, on your own boat, or you can formalize it with any of our affiliated professional schools. Our proprietary CrewMates ™ feature lets your regular crew members authenticate your logbook entries at the click of a button on your mobile device or computer. We even have an optional GPS tracking app that tracks your track and automatically uploads to your logbook. The more you get out on the water, the more your logbook grows and the higher level you achieve within a Rank. And, with NauticEd’s automatic resume generating software, every time you make an entry into your logbook, it appears instantly on your sailing and boating resume. Its all stored in the cloud accessible by you 24/7.
Welcome to the 21st century way of becoming a competent boater.
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Looking to bareboat charter a yacht on a sailing or power boating vacation? Need a license to qualify? NauticEd has a plan and customized steps to ensure you succeed.
Click to view moreSo here is the truth of the matter, for Europe and the Seychelles, you need a boating license and an acceptable boating resume. For every other location including the Caribbean, you do not need a license or certification to charter a recreational vessel BUT what is absolutely required of a skipper from every yacht charter company worldwide is a worthy resume. Why? Because some “license” or “certification” associations issue you a license or certification after a one or two weekend sailing course and a paper test. But, five or even ten days of boating experience is simply not enough.
Think about it - would you rent your boat to someone who had 1 week of boating experience? No and neither do yacht charter companies. These certifications can not necessarily be trusted across the board. So yacht charter companies require an extensive resume demonstrating your sailing or powerboating education, your practical logbook of experience as master of the vessel, and any achievements and competence sign-offs by practical sailing/boating instructors (instructor sign-offs are recommended but not necessarily required). Get the picture? - Competence is required!
So how does NauticEd help its students meet this need?
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The NauticEd resume system and software simply and cleverly follows yacht chartering requirements. Thus, when your resume reflects sufficient theory knowledge and practical experience to actually be competent in the eyes of yacht charter companies, the NauticEd software issues you a Bareboat Charter Master Rank and Certification i.e. competence first - certification second. Every yacht charter company in the world accepts this Certification because it requires real bareboat charter worthiness and is backed by an acceptable boating resume.
Additionally, if you are vacationing in a country that requires an actual sailing/boating license (generally Europe and the Seychelles), then NauticEd can help you gain the SLC license which is fully accepted by yacht charter companies and port authorities. The SLC requires the Bareboat Charter Master Bundle of courses, 50 days of previous and appropriate boating experience, and passing an on-water assessment of your competence skills to European and American National Standards. Note: be aware of sailing associations claiming that their "IPC license is aka the ICC. It is simply just not true!
Simply stated, if you don't have a proper sailing resume (regardless of the certification/license issued to you) you will be hiring a skipper. And that is not a bad thing. A hired skipper can usually show you places you never would have found, tell stories, teach you some tricks, and keep you safe - aka have a safe and enjoyable boating vacation.
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First, we start you out with our Bareboat Charter Master Bundle of multimedia interactive courses and tests. Note there is a difference for whether your wanting a sailing or powerboat license (see below). Then you enter your past history of practical on-the-water experience into your FREE electronic logbook. You must then pass a skills assessment to European and American National Standards with one of our on-water assessors. If you pass, your assessor logs in and clicks to verify your competence. The license is then automatically issued - instantly. All of this is stored automatically in your resume; in the cloud. When you are ready to go chartering, simply click a button and the charter company is sent your credentials.
Start with Bareboat Charter Master Bundle of courses for SAILING
Or the Bareboat Charter Master Bundle of courses for POWERBOATING
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SLC and ICC International Boating License
The International Certificate of Competence (ICC) and the Sailing License and Credentials (SLC) are internationally accepted licenses for skippers wanting to charter recreational sail and power yachts in European waters.
Click to view moreGain the SLC or ICC through NauticEd
The ICC, issued under United Nations Resolution 40, created a universally agreed upon standard of competence for skippers of recreational boats.
Recently, the SLC has become recognized as a more readily accessible and acceptable license for powerboats and sailboats because more schools are able to adminsiter the practical boating competence assessment - especially in North America.
How does the ICC work? Because the ICC was created by the United Nations, a country that has adopted Resolution 40 must approve and assign a company or association to issue an ICC License. The United Kingdom has adopted Resolution 40; it has approved the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) to issue the ICC license to sailors after a skills assessment. But because neither the USA nor Canada have adopted Resolution 40, no USA or Canadian appointed company or association can issue a true ICC.
To solve this, NauticEd worked closely with NASBLA, the US Coast Guard, and European Maritime Agencies to ensure the American National Standards for boating training were recoginised internationally. Thus now, the SLC and the SLC-p license administerd by NauticEd exclusively, is fully accepted by European port authorites and all yacht charter companies. Read on ...
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To receive an SLC or ICC, students must pass a series of theory knowledge boating courses and a one-day on-water assessment that tests their international sailing or powerboating skills. The NauticEd Bareboat Charter Master Bundle of courses serves to gain enough theoretical knowledge to pass the theory portion of the assessment. The practical on-the-water portion of the assessment requires demonstration of skills associated with bareboat chartering. The full skills list is downloadable for free under a NauticEd student's curriculum tab when they sign-in to NauticEd. Significant past history of sailing or powerbaoting experience is also required to be logged in the student's free online logbook. All this ensures that not only is the student legally licensed to charter a yacht, but also the student has a sufficient resume to be accepted by the charter company. Note: a license AND an adequate resume is always required.
If you are going on a sailing or powerboat vacation, contact us. Not only are we experts and agents for all the yacht charter companies worldwide, we can advise if you need a license and if your resume is adequate.
Learn more about how to gain the SLC
Set up a FREE account now and get a free eLogbook and resume building tool.
For sailors, get two free sailing courses
For powerboaters, get a free boating course
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Complete Beginner?
“The expert in anything was once a beginner.”
Helen Hays, the first lady of American Theater.
Are you new to sailing or powerboating and don't know where to start? Read on ...
Click to view moreIn order to become a competent boater, you need theoretical knowledge, on-water skills, and on-the-water experience. But what courses do you need? Where do you find and American National Standards instructor or assessor so I can know my skills are up to a proper measurable standard? And how do you gain experience?
If you are just starting your sailing or powerboat journey, we recommend you start with one of our fun FREE online courses – Basic Sail Trim for sailors or Navigation Rules for Powerboats They are enjoyable and interactive courses - full of animations that help you realize the romance of sailing or the thrill of [safe] power boating. Then as you gain confidence in your knowledge, take one of our Skippering courses. Additional courses are available as you progress on your sailing or boating journey. No matter your eventual boating goal, NauticEd can provide you with the appropriate level of knowledge education and on-water skills through our global network of American National Standards Instructors.
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Ready to get on the water? There are a multitude of options to gain practical experience without owning your own boat. First, NauticEd has professional sailing and powerboat instructors through our worldwide network of professional vetted American National Standards instructors. Beyond that, NauticEd recommends an instructional charter or NauticEd flotilla in a exotic destination such as the British Virgin Islands or Greece - there you will learn the ropes (so to speak) and gain good insight into what you need to learn. Or, to gain further experience - join a local sailing club, a yacht club, check out shared boat programs and shared friendship syndicates, ask a friend to help you learn on their boat, look for racing regattas, Caribbean and Mediterranean crewed charter trips, local meet-up groups and the like. Before you know it, you’ll have some serious water under your belt.
Visit our sailing opportunities page
Gather friends and request an instructional charter or a fun bareboat charter with a professional captain
Join an organized NauticEd flotilla and meet like minded people
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When you start with NauticEd, we will hold your hand and guide you with a realistic plan to achieve your sailing or power boating goals and dreams. We’ll even stretch your imagination a little. Could you imagine yourself skippering a boat on a sailing or power catamaran vacation in the Caribbean? We can! Whatever your dream, NauticEd will be there helping you with your knowledge, practical skills and experience.
So cast off the lines and sign-up for free.
If you are brand new to sailing, we recommend the Introduction to Sailing course
If you have some sailing knowledge already, get started with the Basic Sail Trim course for sailors for FREE - NOW.
Or, for powerboat courses, start here for free with the Navigation Rules course for Powerboats for FREE -NOW.
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Simple and Easy Access
Cross-Platform, Multimedia, Interactive, Real-Time, Mobile Friendly, Recognized, and More.
Click to view moreAll our courses are multimedia and mobile friendly and operate across platforms and browsers. You can also add to your logbook right from the dock as you step off your boat. When your instructor signs your logbook online, you are instantly notified of your success and upgrade. No need for paper resumes and shiny stickers, just give your private logbook code to yacht charter companies who can instantly see your seaworthiness on your cloud stored electronic resume.
We apply the highest technology systems to everything we do.
Welcome to the 21st century of Sailing and Boating Training.
Sign-up for free now to get started. You've got nothing to lose and everything to gain!
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