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Sailing Season Tips Home | Coastal Navigation Skills   Sailing Safety - Learn the Secrets of These Deadly Currents! February 9, 2012 ~ Did you realize that rip currents close to beaches can create extreme hazards for coastal cruising sailors? Learn to avoid these deadly dangers with these three steps that could save your life one day! . . . keep reading Sailing Navigation Secrets - How to Use Longshore Piloting for Safety! January 10, 2012 ~ Imagine that you approach landfall in thick, pea-soup fog. Your plotter or nautical GPS have become unreliable. You have a sick crew aboard and need to make port. Now what, skipper? . . . keep reading Learn to Sail Video - How to Use Depth Contours in Sailing Navigation Boost your sailing navigation safety when you know the secrets of depth contours. Watch this video to keep your small sailboat safe. . . . keep reading Learn to Sail Video - How to Make Landfall Along a Mountainous Coast Did you know that you can turn a charted 2D image into a 3D image for a better visual picture of what you will see? Watch this video to discover this little-known chart navigation skill for better sailing safety! . . . keep reading Learn to Sail Video - How to Sail Safely Near Coastal Cliffs! Did you know that cliffs can produce winds that roll like a snowball off their tops and hit the water with gale force speed? Avoid being caught in these dangerous conditions. Watch this sailing video to learn the steps you need to take to keep you and your sailing crew safe and sound! . . . keep reading Chart Navigation Tips - How Far Away Will You Sight that Light? In a pitch black night, you squint through the binoculars to try and pick up the small lighthouse at the harbor entrance. The nautical GPS shows you dead on track and the light visible from 12 miles. You are that far away now! What could be wrong with your sailing navigation?.. . . . keep reading Chart Navigation Tips - How to Use Red Sectors to Avoid Danger Could you look at a navigational chart and know how to identify the red danger sector of a light? Just what does that mean and how can you use it to stay in safe water. Watch this video now to boost your chart navigation skills sky high! . . . keep reading Chart Navigation Secrets - How to Use a Trusty Turn Bearing If you're anything like me, fast, easy navigation techniques make backup navigation fun. This video will show you one of the easiest techniques to use as a backup if your electronics go on the blink. And you can learn it in less than 60 seconds! . . . keep reading Sailing Navigation Secrets - Use 'Turn Bearings' for Safety's Sake Did you know that you can make super accurate turns with a single bearing off the port or starboard bow. In unfamiliar waters, "turn bearings" serve as a great backup to the nautical gps. Add this technique to your sailing navigation skipper-skills today to keep you and your sailing crew safe and sound . . . keep reading Sailing Navigation Secrets - Easy Approaches Without Plotting It's getting late and you need to make it through the narrow harbor entrance before dark. Swift current sets you hard to starboard. Nautical gps has proven unreliable. And all you see ahead are two small lights on tall cliffs to port and starboard. What sailing navigation method would make this tough approach much easier? . . . keep reading Increase Your Sailing Navigation Accuracy for Islands Cruising Cruising folks in the Caribbean and Pacific report that your nautical gps can lead you astray by two or more miles when making landfall! How can you increase your sailing navigation accuracy in these places? Use this easy guide to set up a three-tier chart navigation system for worry-free cruising . . . keep reading How to Use Orientation Course Lines for Safer Sailing Navigation Have you ever sailed along a new coastline, unsure of how landfall will appear? Sure, you have the fancy chart plotter, but the computerized picture shows almost no land detail. Increase your sailing navigation skills and accuracy in just three easy steps . . . keep reading How to Cross the Gulf Stream or Any Ocean Current in Confidence Are you going to rely on just your nautical GPS to cross a strong current like the Gulf Stream? Any prudent sailing skipper will want to make this fast, simple calculation before he or she attempts to make that crossing. You will know within seconds whether you are headed the right way! . . . keep reading Sailing Navigation Secrets - Pass a Deadly Reef with One Bearing! Strong winds heel you over to starboard as you approach the narrow harbor entrance. Ship-killing reefs lie in wait like frenzied sharks on the right side of the entrance. What simple sailing navigation technique would you use for a safe passage past these dangers? . . . keep reading Chart Navigation - Use the Magic Rule of 60 to Clear a Reef! You want to clear the reef before nightfall. What is the safest, fastest way to do this? Follow these five steps to learn one of the best kept secrets in all of sailing navigation! . . . keep reading Navigate Through a Coral Reef Safely--Use These Seven Tips Are you planning a sailing cruise to those crystal clear island waters? Better bone up on these super reef navigation tips from cruising expert Nigel Calder now! . . . keep reading More Headlines HOME | Contact Captain John | Help | My 100% Guarantee | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use © 2012 SkipperTips.com All Rights Reserved. Reproduction without permission prohibited.