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Featured Instructor: Captain DJ McCabe

Captain DJ McCabe of U-Sail Sailing School Captain DJ McCabe is not just a sailing instructor she is a sailing school owner. Captain DJ is the owner and operator of U-Sail of Central Florida and is the quintessential sailor. She lives to be out on the water. She has handled every aspect of the sailing experience from racing to maintenance

Featured Instructor: Captain Sara Burke

Captain Sara Burke of Manhattan Sailing School Captain Sara Burke is a role model. As a sailing instructor at Manhattan Sailing School, she is a champion of the sailing lifestyle and a model of what sailing is becoming. Her sailing story is about perseverance and adaptability but boils down to her love for the ocean. Read her story below and

Captain Stacey Brooks on Sailing and Visiting Cuba with Sea Dog Sailing

Cuba Libre As the wheels hit the runway in Havana, I gasped with the strong realization that I was finally fulfilling this lifetime dream. After all my years at sea around the Caribbean and the world, deep in my soul, I had always wanted to experience and sail Cuba. The largest island nation in the Caribbean sea, ironically the closest

Making Sailing Safer For Women

How Men Can Step Up to Create a Safer Sport for Women In my first piece, What Women Want Men To Know on Boats I wrote about gender discrimination in sailing. Now we go to the truly scary part: Harassment and Assault. As I discussed before, sexism and assault are ultimately issues that society needs to correct. Most men I

What Women Want Men to Know on Boats

When women sailors are together, the number one question they ask is, how do I get on a safe boat? Skipper Jenn answers that question.

Meet Captain Steph

Featured Instructor: Captain Kira Maixner

Featured Instructor: Captain Jenni Hellpap

Featured Instructor: Captain Lisa Batchelor Frailey

Meet Some Women On The Water

Roxy Darrow Has Gone Sailing

Featured Instructor: Captain Anne Alberg

Women On The Water – The Crew On The Arctic Loon

Featured Instructor: Captain Stacey Brooks

Women On The Water – The Journey of the Arctic Loon

Featured Instructor: Captain Joan Gilmore

Women Wake Up Zone

The American Sailing Association (ASA), America’s sail education authority, is energizing women to set sail with the announcement of its new education campaign: “Women Wake Up Zone.” As U.S. corporations, politics and the entertainment industry evolve to include greater numbers of women, the sailing industry is riding the wave of gender equality, as well. With International Women’s Day earlier this month, as well as March being designated as Women’s History Month, the world’s largest sailing organization chose March 2019 to embark upon a crusade to bring more women into sailing.

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