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Tips From 106: Handling An Emergency

Thes tips are excerpts from ASA Advanced Cruising & Seamanship book. The textbook is the official manual for ASA 106 Advanced Cruising. The textbook was produced as a collaboration between the American Sailing Association and North U. A central facet of risk management is prevention. As the old navy expression states so well, “The price of safety is eternal vigilance.”

ASA 106 Advanced Coastal Cruising: What You’ll Learn

The concept of sailing is widely known and understood. In simplest forms, it is wind in a sail and a boat moving through the water. The art of cruising is a bit more elaborate in that to cruise you set off from one point and aim for your next destination. When sailing becomes more complicated we define our roles on