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How to Extend Your Boat Battery’s Lifespan

How to Extend Your Boat Battery's Lifespan. Smart maintenance, charging, and monitoring tips from cruising...

Two Important Things

Sailing tips from ASA 101 training: safety, sail handling, docking, and navigation rules, key lessons...

Sailing From Croatia to Montenegro

Sailing from Croatia to Montenegro reveals stunning coastlines, strict maritime rules, and the thrill of...

10-Step Methodology for Effective Passage Planning

10-Step Methodology for Effective Passage Planning

10-Step Methodology for Effective Passage Planning outlines a practical, repeatable approach to safer, smarter navigation...

The Schooner “Woodwind”

We catch up with Jen, Captain of the schooner "Woodwind", who is in charge of taking people out sailing on the Chesapeake during the Annapolis Boat Show

Welcome To The Annapolis Boat Show

Meet Captain Bob Solliday, your host for the Annapolis Boat Show... watch ASAs LIVE coverage...

Live from the Annapolis Boat Show

The American Sailing Association will be big-and-bold and live-and-direct at this year’s Annapolis Boat Show.

Win a Beneteau ASA First 22!

The United States Sailboat Show and Beneteau have teamed up to give away a brand new Beneteau ASA First 22 Sailboat!

What’s in a Rig? The Gaff Rig

A gaff rig employs a spar on the top of the sail and typically other sails can be set in conjunction with that mainsail with the gaff.

SailTime Group signs deal with Boatbound

SailTime announced an industry-first partnership with the nation’s fastest growing peer-to-peer boat rental marketplace, Boatbound.

ASA’s New Horizons – Sailing in the Rocky Mountains

We asked Shannon Jakoby, the Marina Manager for Dillon Marina’s Sailing School in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, what it’s like to sail in the Rockies?

American Sailing Journal – Summer 2015

Download the Summer Edition of the American Sailing Journal for great tips and stories from the world of sailing.

Catamaran Design Competition

Help us design a new and exciting special edition of Hobie’s successful WAVE catamaran to get people excited in learning to sail...

Cookin’ on the Boat!

Looking for some new recipes that you can actually make in your boat’s galley? Good food, but not gourmet?

Presidents and the Impossible Dream

Shake-A-Leg is currently working with the Impossible Dream organization that is built around a custom made 60' catamaran designed for disabled sailors.

Picking Up Trash Makes You a Better Sailor!

Here at the American Sailing Association, the waters of our earth are obviously on the top of our priority list and we want to do our part to make things a little bit better.

We Like The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race!

The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is a bi-annual adventure where ordinary people with little/no “sailing resumes” vie for a spot on a boat that will race around the globe...

Ready to charter? Take our charter quiz and find out!

Here’s a charter quiz created from ASA’s Bareboat Cruising Made Easy text book to see if you are close to being ready for a charter experience.

12 Things To Pack On Your Next Charter / Flotilla

Packing light is the key to enjoying your sailing vacation. Most people end up wearing only half of the clothes they bring! Here are 12 things you shouldn't leave behind!

ASA’s Top 6 Female Sailors

Sailing is mostly a male dominated arena but that doesn’t mean there aren’t amazing female sailors. More and more we’re seeing women sailors who get after it and dominate.

What’s in a Rig? The Yawl

Like, the ketch a yawl is equipped with two masts, a main and a mizzen, but ordinarily on a yawl, the mast is smaller and set behind the rudder post. This, therefore, beckons the question: is this an efficient and practical rig?

A Sailing Diamond

Bob Diamond has been teaching beginning-sailors the ropes for a good long time and has been an instructor at Spinnaker Sailing in Redwood City, California since 1984.