What you can do with your ASA sailing credentials
Many prospective students ask us why getting certified is so important. Couldn’t they pick up the same valuable sailing skills without passing a course and…
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Take a Coastal Navigation Sailing Course and Build Confidence
Long gone are the days when a sailor cruising alongside an unfamiliar coast had nothing but their compass and the principles of dead reckoning to…
ASA partners with NASA: “We will sail the Sea of Tranquility by 2020”
For Immediate Release – April 1, 2014 Following the recent announcement of worldwide partnerships with leading boat manufacturer Beneteau and peer-to-peer marketplace Boatbound, the American…
Want to get your USCG Captain’s License? Here’s how.
So you want to be called Captain? There are many reasons, professional and personal, to get a United States Coast Guard Captain’s License. In many…
Back to Basics
Get these sailing basics under your belt with ASA 101, and you’ll be a qualified small boat skipper! The most popular sailing course available, ASA…
What is a sailing education?
You may have heard the term, but what does it actually mean? What is involved in a sailing education, and what are the benefits? Some…
Fit to be tied – essential sailing knots!
Since time immemorial, sailors looking to crew were asked two simple questions: “Can you tie a bowline, and where’s your knife?” Today perhaps we’re a…
Get Your Catamaran Sailing Certification
The catamaran is rapidly becoming one of the world’s most popular types of cruising sailboats. For the uninitiated, a catamaran is a boat balanced on…
How Not to Dock Your Boat
If only these people had taken the American Sailing Association’s Docking Endorsement. We’ll teach you everything from the physics of docking to how to step…
ASA launches learn to sail online system with “Your First Sail” course
Stepping aboard a sailboat for the first time takes courage. The new sailor is entering a floating world where there are new rules, and even,…
Things To Do On Father’s Day Weekend
This Sunday, June 19th, is Father’s Day, and with the official first day of summer impending on June 21, the time is right to get…
Simply Messing About in Boats
There’s something about the Fourth of July weekend that invites us to abandon our big boats and splash around in little ones. Maybe because by…