How to Deal With Seasickness While Sailing
Don't let seasickness ruin your ability to enjoy sailing. There are plenty of seasoned sailors who started out with complications from motion sickness…
Category: Cruising Tips
Tips for Diving Into the Sailing Season
As you embark on the sailing season, it is always a good idea to be well-prepared. Here are some early-season tips to get you off to a great start wit…
Should You Choose A Charter Sailing Vacation?
A great piece of advice given to me by American Sailing Founder Lenny Shabes, when considering sailing with others. Have six people over for dinner o…
Sail Trim for Cruisers: Why Trim Your Sails?
A rumor is going around the American Sailing offices that trimming your sails makes for more efficient sailing. That rumor is directed at my sailing t…
7 Tips For The Beginning Sailor
There are the obvious things you need when you go sailing, sunscreen, a hat, a windbreaker, non-skid shoes, and wind. However, what do you really need…
What is the Intracoastal Waterway?
The Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) is a network of navigable channels, rivers, bays, and canals that stretches more than 3,000 miles along the eastern an…
Start Your Cruising Adventure With John Neal
This month American Sailing is offering a free online class on how to start your sailing adventure. After all, you can’t keep fantasizing about sail…
Where Do You Get Your Weather?
Where do you get your weather info before you go sailing? I sit in front of a computer, miles away from my sailboat, and I make a plan for the coming …
Five Essential Bareboat Charter Skills
Here are 5 essential skills to master before you leave the dock for your first bareboat charter sailing vacation.
Sailing the US Virgin Islands
By Bob Curley Writer, Editor and Sailor, Bob Curley, is a Rhode Island Expert who contributes to American Sailing on sailing New England and the Carib…
Towing A Dinghy?
I am going to get it out of the way immediately. I once fouled a prop with a towline. It took about an hour in Gustavia harbor to get the mess of bra…
Is Sailing Stressful?
What do you worry about when going sailing? Is sailing stressful or are you confident in all situations?
How to Plan a Daysail
So you’ve just added that ASA 101 seal to your logbook, and you’re excited to get underway for your first day sail. After all of your hard work, s…
How To: Basic Anchoring and Anchoring Etiquette
Quite a long time ago…decades ago. I sailed over to Catalina Island from my marina near ASA headquarters. I was young. It was my first time embarkin…
5 Reasons to Sail to St. Barths
As if you need another reason to drop anchor in St. Barth we suggest these five reasons to sail your bareboat charter boat to this gem of an island th…
Preparing For Your First Sailing Vacation Charter
The idea of chartering a boat for a sailing vacation is on your mind so why not just take the plunge and plan that trip? Well, you have a few question…
Ports We Love: Sailing The Amalfi Coast
We walked to the top of the street to stretch our legs after a day of sailing. The sun baked the colorful hillsides and the air was rich with the smel…
Need a Few Sailing Tips?
Find a few sailing tips from the American Sailing Association from sailing with kids to planning a day sail.