Adventure Enabling Education

Learning to sail is easy – learning to sail well is infinitely challenging…

Learn to sail...

Sailing is relatively easy to learn but sailing well, fast, and safely is infinitely challenging and requires theoretical knowledge and experience.

From beginner crew qualification courses to advanced captain qualifications, there is a course that will suit you.

With our NauticEd learning system and fully qualified instructors, assessors, and coaches, you know you are in safe hands…

Other Services

Did you buy a new yacht?  We provide tailor-made practical lessons so you can sail your yacht safely and with confidence. Learn how to anchor, park your boat, and get to know the ins and outs of your new boat.

We can also pick up your boat and sail it to your port of choice…

NAVIGATION RULES CLINIC + BASIC SAIL TRIM COURSE

These FREE online sailing lessons are a great refresher courses for EVERYONE.
Take these FREE courses now and check out how simple and easy it is to take a NauticEd online sailing course.Estimated time: 20 minutes each.

Experience

Fully accredited trainers and assessors with a world of experience and knowledge…

Education

World renouned NauticEd training systems that are proven to work…

Certificate

Get one certificate or do a bundled course. Get yourself ready to crew or skipper…

Features of Our Courses

Why Choose Us?

With trainers and assessors fully qualified to deliver courses, you know you are in safe hands. All our trainers are both NauticEd accredited.

In addition, NauticEd instructors are also qualified with Australian Sailing ® and hold a qualification as Australian Sailing ® Keelboat Instructor as well as Australian Sailing ® Sailing Coach. Both qualifications are endorsed and recognised by World Sailing ®.

Learn from the best

All instructors and assessors are qualified through the NauticEd system. The NauticEd system is the only sailing training institute recognised and approved by the US Coast Guard.

Self-paced

Combine on-line learning with on-the-water practice to ensure you confident to crew or skipper on your next sailing trip.

Professional Certification

Get certified every step on your journey. We are a competency based training organisation so each certificate will mean that you achieved the mandated standard for safety and competency.

The Book of Maritime Idioms

A curious collection of sailing terms that found new meaning in the English language.

Many old sailing, maritime, and nautical terms have found new meanings in modern English. From feeling blue to showing your true colours, from pipe down to eating a square meal per day, all these modern expressions find their origin in the maritime industry.

The comprehensive list of 200+ idioms will surprise you. Beautifully illustrated, this book covers the idiom’s etymology, current meaning, and an example of how we use it in modern-day speech.

Renaming your boat

The ceremony that will save you and your crew from calamity…

It is the perfect gift for the sailor who has everything...

Renaming your boat funny gift

So, you bought a boat. It is beautiful, gracious, and even elegant. Unfortunately, its name suggests otherwise.

Boaty McBoatface wasn’t precisely what you were looking for in a boat name. Neither was the name “Master Baiter” or “Filthy Oar”. And “Bikini Inspector” and “Wasted Seaman” were also not quite to your taste.

You need to change the name of your boat. But before you do, ensure you read this book, for failure to adhere to the name-changing ceremony could lead to the sinking of your boat…

Read more…

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