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Category: Schools
Sailing With Sailing Virgins
ASA Sailing School Profile: A Closer Look at ASA Sailing School, Sailing Virgins. If you spend any time in the British Virgin Islands you’ll see…
The ASA Family
The American Sailing Association is more than just an organization that hands out sailing certifications. It is an advocate for the environment, it is a…
In The Classroom: ASA 108/117 Offshore Passagemaking and Celestial Navigation
Currently, a group of students is preparing to embark on a voyage from Bermuda to the British Virgin Islands. On that voyage, students will earn…
Featured School: The Maryland School of Sailing & Seamanship
Aboard S/V ENCHANTMENT Island Packet 40 enroute from Bermuda to Norfolk, VA… At precisely twelve midnight local time I shackled my safety harness onto…
Cruising the Hawaiian Islands
ASA Outstanding Instructor Greg Martin of Sail Hawaii is very familiar with the waters around the Hawaiian Islands and he regularly sails and teaches out…
Lady Liberty Regatta in New York Harbor
The American Sailing Association has launched a new campaign designed to get more women on the water. The “Women Wake Up Zone” encourages more women…
ASA Assists Hurricane-Ravaged Affiliates
The American Sailing Association has raised almost $30,000 for affiliates to help them re-open for business after being ravaged by recent hurricanes.
The Annapolis Sailing School
When one thinks of classic yachting epicenters on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, just a handful of places come to mind. One of them is bea…
Featured School : Canary Sail
Canary Sail features ideal sailing conditions & a wide selection of sailboats to choose from - not surprising that many students return to sail again!
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 R…
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…
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, Califo…
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.
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 c…
King of Sailing
In 2006 Jim King took his first ASA 101 & ASA 103 courses - he bought a boat the next weekend! Now he owns his own sailing school, North Star Sailing …
The Sailing Surgeon
John Martin is a guy who knows how to live life. A retired surgeon who has sailed around the world, Martin has over 48,000 nautical miles under his be…
Blown Away by Sailing
Drew Skelton, owner of Blown Away Sailing in Maryland, found his way into sailing through the Boy Scouts of America program and has been a waterman ev…