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Med Mooring Learnings Amidst Squawkers, Gawkers, and Midnight Crooners

Learn about Med mooring and the unique challenges it presents in tight marinas, especially in beautiful Aegina, Greece.

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Mast Head pull heeling versus wind heeling

A few takeaways worth sharing:

Always invest in your rig. Standing rigging isn’t the place to economize. Spreaders, shrouds, terminals—they’re not just hardware, they’re load-management systems. Use stretchy docklines for masthead pulls. We used a 3/4" dockline, and that stretch mattered. Shock loads are the real killers. Even a small wave can create load multipliers t...


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What is an American National Standards EDU-4 Instructor

EDU-4 is the American National Standard that describes what high-quality on-water instruction must look like: clear objectives, structured lessons, appropriate safety and student ratios, objective assessment, and continuous improvement. NauticEd requires its instructors to follow these principles in every training session.

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Fin Keel versus a Full Keel Efficiency

Applying a bit of Newtonian physics says that the force on a keel is equal to half the water density x velocity squared x area. But wait - what if the fin keel area was the same as the full keel? All would be the same, right? And even so, usually a full keel would have a  larger area than a fin keel (despite the fin keel being a little deeper), so it would seem then that...


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Are You Really Ready for an Assessment?

Example: You can explain how to perform an MOB maneuver or hoist the main, but if your instructor suddenly says “Okay, you do it,” you feel a bit lost.

This is a good, necessary phase, but it’s too early to expect a pass on an assessment.

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