How can an anchor trip-line, a five-second vibration test or a single simple sailing tip to choose the perfect working anchor make sailing or cruising safer worldwide? Watch this video now to find out more! Captain John is a 20+ year Coast Guard veteran, author, sailor, and professional boating instructor who shows you the simple, cut-to-the-chase sailing skills for safer sailing. Visit his website at www.skippertips.com. Sign up for his highly popular Sailing Tip of the Week. Discover how to get instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, eBooks, and much more!

What visual signs will give you the ‘real-time’ reading of wind or current to help you dock your boat with precision? How can you tell if your engine will answer your commands when using docking speeds? Have you made a ‘drift rate’ test to choose the best approach to a pier or slip? Captain John is a 20+ year Coast Guard veteran, author, sailor, and professional boating instructor who shows you the simple, cut-to-the-chase sailing, docking, and navigation skills for safer boating worldwide. Visit his website at www.skippertips.com and sign up for free weekly sailing tips. Discover how to get instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, eBooks, and much more!

What nautical chart symbols spell "danger" for the unwary sailing skipper? Wrecks can do a lot of costly damage to your sailboat hull, rudder, keel or propeller. Watch this sailing video to learn what you need to know to avoid these hazards of the deep! Captain John is a 20+ year Coast Guard veteran, author, sailor, and professional boating instructor who shows you the simple, cut-to-the-chase sailing skills for safer sailing. Visit his website at www.skippertips.com. Sign up for his highly popular Sailing Tip of the Week. Discover how to get instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, eBooks, and much more!

Take a course at a sailing school, and you will probably learn a series of loops and turns while practicing the recovery of a person in the water under sail alone. In the real world of boating, short-handed crews will often use the engine for better control from start to finish. Watch this sailing video to learn more. Captain John is a 20+ year Coast Guard veteran, author, sailor, and professional boating instructor who shows you the simple, cut-to-the-chase sailing skills for safer sailing. Visit his website at www.skippertips.com. Sign up for his highly popular Sailing Tip of the Week. Discover how to get instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, eBooks, and much more!

Your mainsail’s primary control is the mainsheet. If this vital block and tackle system fails, you will be unable to trim the leech of your mainsail or control the boom. What steps can you take to use materials already aboard your boat to create an emergency mainsheet in an emergency? Watch this sailing video to learn the answer! Captain John is a 20+ year Coast Guard veteran, author, sailor, and professional boating instructor who shows you the simple, cut-to-the-chase sailing skills for safer sailing. Visit his website at www.skippertips.com. Sign up for his highly popular Sailing Tip of the Week. Discover how to get instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, eBooks, and much more!

Load provisions for sailing or cruising, and your sailboat may take on a permanent list or become ‘trimmed’ down by the bow or stern. And that can affect sailing performance in a big way! Follow these five steps for boating safety this season. Captain John is a 20+ year Coast Guard veteran, author, sailor, and professional boating instructor who shows you the simple, cut-to-the-chase sailing skills for safer sailing. Visit his website at www.skippertips.com. Sign up for his highly popular Sailing Tip of the Week. Discover how to get instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, eBooks, and much more!

If you rely on electronics alone for weather predictions, you are missing one of the most valuable weather planning tools in existence. Learn the secrets used by mariners worldwide to find the best sailing winds, fairest currents, avoid gales, storms, fog and much more! Download FREE pilot charts here: https://msi.nga.mil/Publications/APC Captain John is a 20+ year Coast Guard veteran, author, sailor, and professional boating instructor who shows you the simple, cut-to-the-chase sailing skills for safer sailing. Visit his website at www.skippertips.com. Sign up for his highly popular Sailing Tip of the Week. Discover how to get instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, eBooks, and much more!

How can you keep your sailboat diesel engine running strong and worry-free when sailing or cruising? Put these five easy engine tasks on your checklist today to keep your 'iron Genny' running like a top all sailing season long! Captain John is a 20+ year Coast Guard veteran, author, sailor, and professional boating instructor who shows you the simple, cut-to-the-chase sailing skills for safer sailing. Visit his website at www.skippertips.com. Sign up for his highly popular Sailing Tip of the Week. Discover how to get instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, eBooks, and much more!

If you want to avoid running aground or ending up on the wrong side of a buoy, beacon, light, or other navigation marker, you’d better check the chart before you enter. Why? In US waters, red markers are not always kept on the right side, nor are green markers always kept to port. Watch this sailing video to find out why! Captain John is a 20+ year Coast Guard veteran, author, sailor, and professional boating instructor who shows you the simple, cut-to-the-chase sailing skills for safer sailing. Visit his website at www.skippertips.com. Sign up for his highly popular Sailing Tip of the Week. Discover how to get instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, eBooks, and much more!

Are you sure your sailing navigation skills are up to speed? If the GPS fails or a hacker causes a major disruption (think of the recent past), recreational skippers may be the first to feel the pain of sailing without electronics. Use these seven navigation tips to make sure you have the skills you need to get your sailing crew home safe and sound, with or without the electronics. Captain John is a 20+ year Coast Guard veteran, author, sailor, and professional boating instructor who shows you the simple, cut-to-the-chase sailing skills for safer sailing. Visit his website at www.skippertips.com. Sign up for his highly popular Sailing Tip of the Week. Discover how to get instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, eBooks, and much more!

Cast off to go sailing, and your halyards, sheets, and sails come under heavy load, and every piece of rigging aboard your boat will vibrate. What one simple step can you take right now to reduce the risk of catastrophic rigging failure? Check out this sailing video to learn more! Captain John is a 20+ year Coast Guard veteran, author, sailor, and professional boating instructor who shows you the simple, cut-to-the-chase sailing skills for safer sailing. Visit his website at www.skippertips.com. Sign up for his highly popular Sailing Tip of the Week. Discover how to get instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, eBooks, and much more!

Imagine you are tied up between two million-dollar yachts and need to undock your boat. A gusty wind blows from ahead of the bow (or is blowing off the pier). How can you use a single spring line to undock your sailboat smooth and easy? Watch this video to learn the answer! Captain John is a 20+ year Coast Guard veteran, author, sailor, and professional boating instructor who shows you the simple, cut-to-the-chase sailing skills for safer sailing. Visit his website at www.skippertips.com. Sign up for his highly popular Sailing Tip of the Week. Discover how to get instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, eBooks, and much more!

Are you prepared to hoist a spare ‘hank-on’ headsail if your furling gear breaks? What easy steps can you take while still at the dock to rig a working jib, storm sail, or other headsail, ready to hoist before you cast off? Watch this sailing video now! Captain John is a 20+ year Coast Guard veteran, author, sailor, and professional boating instructor who shows you the simple, cut-to-the-chase sailing skills for safer sailing. Visit his website at www.skippertips.com. Sign up for his highly popular Sailing Tip of the Week. Discover how to get instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, eBooks, and much more!

How can you determine how tight of a turn your sailboat can make under mainsail, headsail, or a combo of main and headsail? Once you come out of the turn, how long will it take for her to drift to a stop to pick up a person in the water, a mooring buoy, or to dock your boat next to a pier? Watch this sailing video to learn more! Captain John is a 20+ year Coast Guard veteran, author, sailor, and professional boating instructor who shows you the simple, cut-to-the-chase sailing skills for safer sailing. Visit his website at www.skippertips.com. Sign up for his highly popular Sailing Tip of the Week. Discover how to get instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, eBooks, and much more!

You are sailing along the coast and enter a narrow channel, bound for your overnight anchorage. Ahead off the starboard bow, you sight a diamond-shaped daybeacon, but your chart display shows a square-shaped symbol. What action should you take to avoid grounding? Captain John is a 20+ year Coast Guard veteran, author, sailor, and professional boating instructor who shows you the simple, cut-to-the-chase sailing skills for safer sailing. Visit his website at www.skippertips.com. Sign up for his highly popular Sailing Tip of the Week. Discover how to get instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, eBooks, and much more!

Do you have a secondary emergency anchor ready to deploy from the cockpit in a matter of seconds? How could you rig this anchor if you wanted to use it as your primary ‘bow’ anchor when singlehanded sailing? Watch this sailing video to learn more. Captain John is a 20+ year Coast Guard veteran, author, sailor, and professional boating instructor who shows you the simple, cut-to-the-chase sailing skills for safer sailing. Visit his website at www.skippertips.com. Sign up for his highly popular Sailing Tip of the Week. Discover how to get instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, eBooks, and much more!

Imagine sailing along the coast or offshore when, without warning, your mainsail halyard breaks. How can you rig your mainsail topping lift to hoist the mainsail and avoid a trip to the masthead? Watch this sailing video to learn more. Captain John is a 20+ year Coast Guard veteran, author, sailor, and professional boating instructor who shows you the simple, cut-to-the-chase sailing skills for safer sailing. Visit his website at www.skippertips.com. Sign up for his highly popular Sailing Tip of the Week. Discover how to get instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, eBooks, and much more!

Few sailing emergencies strike fear into the hearts of sailors more than falling overboard. What three often-forgotten strategies could you put into play today to lower the risk of falling over the side? Watch this sailing video to get started. Captain John is a 20+ year Coast Guard veteran, author, sailor, and professional boating instructor who shows you the simple, cut-to-the-chase sailing skills for safer sailing. Visit his website at www.skippertips.com. Sign up for his highly popular Sailing Tip of the Week. Discover how to get instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, eBooks, and much more!

If you’ve ever tried docking your sailboat inside a slip in a cross-wind or cross-current, you know how challenging this can be. What device can you rig to make docking safer and easier? Follow these three easy steps. Captain John is a 20+ year Coast Guard veteran, author, sailor, and professional boating instructor who shows you the simple, cut-to-the-chase sailing skills for safer sailing. Visit his website at www.skippertips.com. Sign up for his highly popular Sailing Tip of the Week. Discover how to get instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, eBooks, and much more!

Cast off to go sailing, and you need to know the five key elements that are vital for every form of navigation on planet Earth. No matter whether sailing, powering, driving, flying, or walking, all five elements are in play at all times. Watch this sailing video to learn more. Captain John is a 20+ year Coast Guard veteran, author, sailor, and professional boating instructor who shows you the simple, cut-to-the-chase sailing skills for safer sailing. Visit his website at www.skippertips.com. Sign up for his highly popular Sailing Tip of the Week. Discover how to get instant access to hundreds of sailing articles, videos, eBooks, and much more!