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Storm Tactics

Legendary sailor John Neal shares 412,000 miles of hard-won storm wisdom: heavy-weather sailing starts with...

Sailboats rounding the mark in a regatta

The Real Victory at the Finish Line

A sailing coach takes students with intellectual and developmental disabilities to their first regatta. What...

Across Oceans

What five offshore races revealed about leadership, teamwork, resilience, and the realities of life at...

A sailor at sunset in San Francisco

Five Waters, Five Lessons

From Colorado reservoirs to ocean racing, every body of water teaches something different. Here's what...

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!

Stella Diamant, Mega Expedition Coordinator

Stella Diamant works for The Ocean Cleanup. She is currently in the middle of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch sailing on a Gunboat 66 called Extreme H2O collecting plastic pollution samples as part of the Mega Expedition that she helped put together.

ASA Quiz – Sailing Around the Plastic Pollution Issue

As sailors, we believe the oceans need help and protection. Take our quiz and learn more about oceanic plastic pollution and what ASA and The Ocean Cleanup are doing to help!

ASA Coverage of the Departure of the Mega Expedition

From the shores of Hawaii, and the shores of the mainland the Mega Expedition has begun... watch the video...

Summer School for Sailing Instructors

Sometimes Summer School can be fun, especially for those sailing instructors who attended an ASA Instructor Qualification Clinic (IQC) at R&R Charters and Sail School.

The Boat My Father Built

"The Boat My Father Built", a poem about sailing by Patrick Bushby

The ASA “Grand Tour” on Arabella

Photos of ASA members onboard "Arabella" sailing a "Grand Tour" around Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket as well as the beautiful port of Cuttyhunk.

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!

What’s in a Rig? The Ketch

Ketch rigs hold a special place in many a cruising sailor’s heart. They are two masted rigs with a main mast and a (smaller) mizzenmast – they carry a jib just like a sloop.

Language of the Sea

Here’s a game – check out this guy talking about his job and see how many old-school nautical terms you spot.