Why we chose NauticEd
Underway Sailing partnered with NauticEd to offer our students the best learning resources and global community available in modern sailing education.
NauticEd shares our passion for training and nurturing safe and confident sailors, Our focus is always on student goals and competency – gained from knowledge, skills, and experience. NauticEd offers state-of-the-art multimedia online courses, professional sailing relationships around the world, standards that exceed United States Coast Guard requirements, and experts with thousands of sea miles of experience.
About NauticEd
NauticEd is the leading international and fastest growing North American sailing and boating education company.
NauticEd’s mission is to educate and train competent sailors. Sailing competence requires a mix of knowledge, skills and experience. Once achieved, competence means a sailor will keep the crew safe, have more fun, and be empowered with the confidence to sail beyond visible horizons and personal boundaries.
NauticEd helps you chart your own course by merging the latest technology, learning techniques, and on-the-water training into one globally accepted program. Our professional and accredited sailing schools are located around the world, providing immersive training and a supportive sailing community to help you accomplish your personal goals.
NauticEd programs exceed all U.S. and international recreational sailing standards. NauticEd courses conform to U.S. Coast Guard EDU-3, NASBLA verified third-party assessment, and exceed United Nations (UNE) Resolution 40 competence standards.
NauticEd's Approach
1. Online Multimedia Theory Courses
Learning the theory and technical knowledge of sailing has never been easier with NauticEd’s real-time library of state-of-the-art coursework. Courses are cross-platform, multimedia, interactive, real-time, mobile friendly, and continuously updated, Retake the tests as often as needed. Our goal isn’t pass/fail, but focusing your education where it benefits you the most.
2. Sailing Schools | On-The-Water Training
NauticEd has an international professional network of certified instructors and sailing schools. NauticEd schools are focused on helping students achieve their personal goals and teaching in a safe, controlled training environment.
3. Free Online Logbook & Resume
Every charter operator requires a properly formatted sailing resume that confirms their sailing experience and sailing education. NauticEd offers a free, globally recognized logbook and resume building tool to track training and on-the-water experience in one convenient virtual location.
4. Certification & Licensing
NauticEd’s certification program is a simple calculation:
Online theory + On-the-water skills = Certified Training
Certified training + Experience = Certified competence levels I to V
Underway Sailing confirms the on-the-water skills through its sailing programs and assessments. Hours spent in on-the-water training are recorded in your logbook and count towards your experience.
Included free with NauticEd Courses
iOS and Android Course Apps
Take all of your NauticEd courses with you anywhere on your mobile device – online or offline. NauticEd online courses and testing are available on iOS & Android to give you more options to learn sailing at a relaxed pace. You can also take the course tests online. When you complete a test, the App updates your online resume automatically.
Predict Wind
NauticEd partnered with Predict Wind to offer students the best in wind and weather forecasting. Receive a 3 month subscription for FREE!
One of the best apps for wind prediction when sailing, Predict Wind includes all the top weather prediction model information and presents the information in a user-friendly app on your mobile device and on your computer.
Tracklink & Anchor Watch
Students receive the feature-rich boating GPS Tracking App Tracklink. Tracklink logs the miles, elapsed time, weather conditions, vessel details and overlays that track onto a chart. Tracklink's logbook entry is automatically updated in your NauticEd online logbook entry, effortlessly building your sailing resume.
NauticEd Sailing Simulator
NauticEd’s sailing points-of-sail simulator helps students to learn and practice steering and trimming to different points-of-sail.