Skippering a Small Keelboat: Skills from the Masters: Modern Lessons From the Fastest-Growing Global Sailing Education and Certi

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Sail Confidently and Calmly in All Conditions. Sail a small keelboat up to twenty-five feet with ease in all nearshore conditions with this unique book-and start a foundation on which you can build a sailing resume that will give you the credentials to charter and skipper a boat in the Caribbean-or anywhere in the world. Grant Headifen and the experts at NauticEd have certified thousands of sailors for bareboat skippering in some of the most alluring seas of the world. NauticEd's resume-building system is accepted by yacht charter companies worldwide. Skippering a Small Keelboat offers everything you need to know-and with its unique, scannable QR codes providing clear instructional videos and animations, it is the next best thing to being on the water with an instructor at your side. It brings the book to life. The only thing missing is the water. Complete, concise, and based on Grant Headifen's grasp of how to teach sailing quickly and comprehensively, here are lessons on weather and sea conditions, rigging, anchoring, reading tides and currents, rules of the nautical road, safe and confident dockingand so much more. Here is what one of NauticEd's students had to say: "I've sailed for the last thirty-plus years and have a fifty-ton master's credential. I'm constantly learning something new or forgotten from NauticEd." Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports-books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Grant Headifen is the global director of education for NauticEd, a leading international sailing education and certification company. His passion and focus is to make sailing education available and accessible to those who share his love of the water. With a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas, Austin, Headifen brings a unique approach to sailing education. He is able to explain the very technical in simple, practical pieces to allow anyone to grasp the concepts. Originally from New Zealand, Grant lives in Austin, Texas, with his daughter (his other passion).