New Instructional Sailing Apps for Android now available
by Linda Cullum on 1 Dec 2014
Apps4Sailing App Linda Cullum
Little Pines Multimedia has released a new series of instructional apps for Android available at their website Apps4Sailing.com, Google Play and Amazon.
Taught by a US Coast Guard Licensed Captain and Instructor of American Sailing Association Classes, the lessons are arranged in the order a typical sailing course. Starting with Parts of a Boat, the lessons continue on to other topics such as Wind Theory, Balance, The Points of Sail, Leaving Docks and Moorings, Tacking, Person Overboard Techniques, Righting a Capsize, Knots, Anchoring and much more. These topics are taught using narration, animation and digital video. The user is free to select whatever class she or he wishes to take at anytime and from anywhere on Earth.
'It is exciting that mobile technology has advanced the way it has', states Linda Cullum, CEO of Little Pines Multimedia. 'I could see the value of being able to learn to sail while on the go in a fun and compact way. These first lessons are aimed to be a preliminary course and will educate newbies on foreign sailing topics and terms in advance so that they can get the most out of their investment. This method of receiving information also provides the opportunity for reviewing technique just before heading out or while on the water.'
There is a free sample app that includes a lesson 'Tacking: Turning a sailboat into and through the wind' available here.
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