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How to Choose the Right Cruising Boat for Your Sailing Goals

How to Choose the Right Cruising Boat for Your Sailing Goals Learn the key differences...

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It’s Not a Fashion Statement, It’s a Lifestyle

A teen survived 1+ hour alone in open water after a capsizing—because she wore her...

Off-Season Sailing in Miami

A rare Miami cold front challenges sailors to adapt. Learn how layering, preparation, and mindset...

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Racing Rules Applied: Why Even Experienced Sailors Still Get the Racing Rules Wrong

Before you untie the dock lines, make sure you're ready. Here's why boating safety education...

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.

ASA was in San Francisco for the conclusion of the Mega Expedition…

ASA was in San Francisco for the conclusion of the Mega Expedition... watch the video and find out how The Ocean Cleanup hope to fix the plastic pollution problem...

ASA’s New Horizons – Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan

We asked Rod Call from Great Lakes Sailing Company in Michigan about sailing in the gorgeous waters of the north.

Become A Sailing Instructor this Fall

Are you a sailor that feels the need to share your knowledge & love of sailing with others? Take the challenge and attend an ASA Instructor Qualification Clinic (IQC) this Fall!

ASAs Exclusive Report from the Pacific Garbage Patch

ASA interviews Stella Diamant, The Mega Expedition Coordinator, via satellite phone from the middle of the Pacific Garbage Patch!