2023 New Year’s Resolutions for Sailors
The countdown begins to breaking your other New Year's resolutions, but these sailing promises will be kept. 2023 is the year that you will reach your…
Author: Zeke
ASA 103 Basic Coastal Cruising – What You’ll Learn
You have taken ASA 101, Basic Keelboat Sailing, and you are confident to skipper a sloop-rigged keelboat of approximately 20 to 27 feet in length by d…
Featured Instructor: Captain Margaret Pommert
Captain Margaret Pommert of Seattle has been named the recipient of the 2020 BoatUS/National Women’s Sailing Association (NWSA) Leadership in Womenâ…
ASA 104 Bareboat Cruising – What You’ll Learn
We dropped the anchor in about 15 feet of crystal clear water. From the dolphin striker, I could see the anchor chain all the way to the hook in the w…
Sail Baja California with Go Baja Sailing
It is possible that your vision of Baja California has an imprint of salt shakers, limes, and tequila shots. After all, the tourism board of the regio…
What is a PFD (lifejacket)
In the official language of the USCG, a wearable device that will keep you afloat should you fall in the water is a “personal flotation device†or…
Discover an American Sailing School Near You!
American sailing schools are literally around every corner so find one and get out there and work on your sailing skills. Discover an ASA Sailing Scho…
Handling Emergencies: Man Overboard
Every man or woman overboard situation should be treated as a very serious matter, even in seemingly balmy conditions. In cold waters or cold weather,…
The Sailing Season – Oahu, Circumnavigating The Island
ASA Outstanding Instructor Greg Martin of Sail Hawaii is very familiar with the waters around the Hawaiian Islands and he regularly sails and teaches …
What is a keelboat?
There is a pretty good chance that the sailboat you have in your mind is a keelboat. Your imagination most likely recalls a schooner, and that most li…
Stuff Your Stocking With A Sailing Vacation
I am wearing a sweater indoors, and I have wool socks on. I live in California and I cannot imagine what anyone in the northeast does during the wint…
Where Are We Going: Understanding Points of Sail
The direction of the wind dictates the direction a sailboat can sail. Understanding the points of sail is vital to understanding how sailors orient th…
Go Sailing in Hawaii
The first time you move across the channel between Maui and Molokai you are introduced to the tradewinds that blow over the West Maui Mountains. The s…
5 Tips For Planning A Sail From Let’s Go Sailing
The small boat sailing book “Let’s Go Sailing†is available from the American Sailing Association. SAILING Magazine says “The book is a sailin…
Towing A Dinghy?
I am going to get it out of the way immediately. I once fouled a prop with a towline. It took about an hour in Gustavia harbor to get the mess of bra…
From Landlubber to Old Salt: Beginner Sailing Tips
Learning to sail is easier than you think with a little help from ASA.
Featured School: Go Sail Virgin Islands
It seems like the U.S Virgin Islands always get overlooked by its neighboring cousin the BVI. Why? Getting to the US Virgin Islands is easier and if y…
6 Sailing Bags You Need On Your Boat
I have to stop complaining about how many shoes my wife has because I probably have that many sailing bags. Yes, I have too many sailing bags and I am…