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From Alcatraz a Sailor is Born

While waiting for the ferry to Alcatraz in San Fransisco Chet Shubert was so entranced by all the sailboats on the bay that he signed up for sailing classes that following week!

Meet Duncan Hood, ASA Instructor Evaluator

Duncan Hood is an ASA Instructor Evaluator and has played a key role at ASA since it was founded in 1983. His recent trips to China have helped start numerous sailing schools and put sailing on the map in the region.

King of Sailing

In 2006 Jim King took his first ASA 101 & ASA 103 courses - he bought a boat the next weekend! Now he owns his own sailing school, North Star Sailing Charters.

The Sailing Surgeon

John Martin is a guy who knows how to live life. A retired surgeon who has sailed around the world, Martin has over 48,000 nautical miles under his belt and he’s still sailing all the time.

Blown Away by Sailing

Drew Skelton, owner of Blown Away Sailing in Maryland, found his way into sailing through the Boy Scouts of America program and has been a waterman ever since.

Sailing by the Lee

Since he was a kid, Lee Pearce has been around the water and boats, but he didn’t discover sailing until he was around 30-years old, living in Florida. Pearce soon found his groove and realized he could be more than a part time instructor and took the plunge, starting his own sailing school!

A Racing Teacher Now a Teaching Racer

Peter Branning got into sailing at a summer program in Coconut Grove, Florida in 1958 and has been an avid sailor ever since.

Coast Guard Announces New PFD Labeling

A study initiated nearly a decade ago suggests that users do not adequately understand PFD type codes. In an effort to address this problem, the US Coast Guard (USCG) announced new Personal Flotation Devices Labeling and Standards.

Cold Hands, Warm Hearts

Conducting an Instructor Qualification Clinic (IQC) in April on Lake Michigan can be a roll of the dice weatherwise...

Soul Sailor

Brenton Lochridge lives and breathes sailing. After learning how to sail at a local YMCA camp on the Chesapeake Bay at seven, he caught the bug and kept on sailing. By the time he hit his teens, he would be on a boat nearly every day.

Raising the Bar at R&R

ASA would like to congratualate the latest group of sailing instructor graduates from an IQC hosted by R&R Charters and Sail School in Maryland.

From the Navy to Owning His Own Sailing School

As a child, sailing instructor Yonatan Bresler found his love for sailing aboard Lasers and catamarans with his father in the waters of Israel

He Owes It All to a Garbage Bag

Puget Sound Sailing Institute’s Outstanding Instructor Steve Klump “became instantly hooked on sailing through an 'ah-ha' moment while canoeing downwind in Everglades National Park using a garbage bag as a sail”

Fair Winds and at Least Two Cup Holders!

Black Rock Sailing School’s twenty-four-year-old ASA Sailing Instructor Paul Sullivan caught the sailing bug young, sailing his Sunfish around the small lake of his hometown. A self-described sailing addict, Sullivan lived for sailing.

Living the Dream!

Matthew Holt, voted an ASA Outstanding Instructor in 2014, teaches sailing in one of the most beautiful places in the world - the British Virgin Islands.

Latest IQC Graduates

New discussion forum for ASA instructors on Facebook

Seminar for Cruising Couples in Miami