Replacement Logbooks Are Now Easily Available
It has always been possible to obtain a replacement ASA Logbook, but it is now much easier. Have you lost your Logbook? Or is it old, tattered, and st…
ASA Board Member Michael Pandzik Dies at 77
ASA Founder and Chairman Lenny Shabes and President Cindy Shabes, with profound sadness and deep regret, want to inform all members of the American Sa…
ASA Way to Foretell a Lowering Sky
“When in evening, say ye, ‘Fair weather, for the heaven is red’. And if in morning, say, ‘Today will storm, for the sky is red and lowering’…
Sailing Inspiration: Puget Sound Sailing Institute
ASA Kudos to Mike Rice of Puget Sound Sailing Institute New ASA sailor Angela Baune has spent most of her 57 years in landlocked cities, and in 2017 s…
ASA Sailor Saves a Woman Adrift Off Los Angeles
Most of the time, when a sailing skipper rescues someone from the water, it’s one of the crew who fell overboard, and it’s usually a man (85%), bu…
ASA Remembers Laser Designer Bruce Kirby
Following in the wake of the death of Frank Butler, President and Chief Executive Officer of Catalina Yachts, in Nov 2020 at age 92, boat designer and…
Should ASA Instructors (and Skippers in General) Be Good Swimmers?
Should You Know How to Swim to Learn to Sail? For sailors who grew up perpetually wet from ages 5 to 25, having fun righting capsized dinghies, less f…
ASA Remembers Catalina Yachts Found Frank Butler
The sailing world has lost an icon. Frank Willis Butler, President and Chief Executive Officer of Catalina Yachts, passed away on 15 Nov 2020 at age 9…
Interesting Things at the Top of World
In 2018, the Earth’s Magnetic North Pole - a wandering location where lines of magnetic force enter the Earth perpendicularly - passed closer to the…
ASA Affiliate Blue Pacific Yachting Deals with Coronavirus
As we merge from the pandemic crisis Sailing schools across the country and around the world have had to adapt to a changing landscape. One…
Learning To Sail: A Navy Son and His Army Veteran Father
Learning To Sail With Veteran Sailing Association in Tavernier, Florida The ASA Veterans Sailing Education Program is in its third month of operation and several…