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Join Dr. Andy Ward and Bill Ibsen with Grant Headifen as they discuss how to be the most powerful version of yourself when in command of a sailing vessel with friends and family. How do you become the best leader and how to avoid pulling out the "I'm Captain" card. You crew are going to challenge your leadership skills - how do you leave them with a big wow with your leadership style
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Join us as we talk with the folks at Predict Wind, the world-leading weather prediction app. We discuss how the app works, what makes them the best, the weather models they use to calculate and determine the weather, weather routing, departure planning, and other technical terms like CAPE. We also discuss how to get a free subscription to the professional version of Predict Wind through your NauticEd student membership.

Join Kristi and Jim Query, owners of Virgin Islands Yacht Charters, as they take us for a tour around the USVI. We talk about what it's like to own a yacht charter company, a great USVI itinerary, places not miss, what they require in terms of a sailing resume to charter with them, and in general, why the USVI is such a great place to charter a yacht on a sailing vacation.

Join us with Andrew Hodgdon, a top-selling sailboat broker with The Multihull Yacht Broker Agency and Technical Director for Balance Catamarans. The topic today is how to buy and sell a boat - what to watch out for - the overall process - the survey - and more. Andrew specializes in Catamaran sales and more specifically performance Cats. There is quite a few boat buying and selling gems to pick up here.

With BoatyBall.com you make reservations for mooring balls in the BVI. The guys who run BoatyBall, Ty and Bob, are hilarious so we decided to do a dual topic show. Massive Dinghy fails and BVI buoy reservations. Come have a blast with us as we describe crazy dinghy fail stories on vacation while at the same time tell you about how to easily make a buoy reservation in the BVI. "There was this one time that an evil spirit took over our dinghy and..."

Come join Scott Mayer and Tyler Martin from Bluesail Vacation Yachts and Sailing Academy as they describe how awesome sailing out of Key West can be. From sailing and snorkelling to Key West itself, they describe it all. If you've ever thought about sailing the Key West area, listen in to this captivating description. Here's their facebook page full of great photos - https://www.facebook.com/bluesailcharters