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Yacht Chartering: Sailing
Certifications, Licenses, and
Resumes: What's the difference?
Sailing Certifications
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avigating sailing certifications, sailing
licenses, and sailing resumes can be
tricky and can have possible disappoin-
ting results if you make the wrong as-
sumptions or get bad information. This is
especially the case if you are chartering a yacht on a
sailing vacation.
First, let's set the logic train going. The best way to
look at it is this; If some random stranger showed up
and wanted to take your pride and beauty sailboat
out for a week or even an afternoon for that matter,
what would make you comfortable with letting that
stranger release docklines and head off? You'd want
to know that they were very experienced – right?
Thus the sailing resume.
Sailing Resume
A sailing resume is documentation of everything sai-
ling wise that a person has done: How much time
has the person spent on boats, how much time as
skipper, what size boats, how long ago was the ex-
perience, what type of boats, what sea conditions,
any long distance trips, any multiday or weeklong
trips, any formal training, any licenses, and any cer-
tifications?
The certificate issued by NauticEd
