Do I Really Need Sailing Lessons?
Learning to sail with ASA opens the doors to the world of sailing and the vast experiences that come with it from bareboat charters to owning your own…
Five Essential Bareboat Charter Skills
Here are 5 essential skills to master before you leave the dock for your first bareboat charter sailing vacation.
The Sailing Season – Oahu, Circumnavigating The Island
ASA Outstanding Instructor Greg Martin of Sail Hawaii is very familiar with the waters around the Hawaiian Islands and he regularly sails and teaches …
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…
What is a keelboat?
There is a pretty good chance that the sailboat you have in your mind is a keelboat. Your imagination most likely recalls a schooner, and that most li…
Replacement Logbooks Are Now Easily Available
It has always been possible to obtain a replacement ASA Logbook, but it is now much easier. Have you lost your Logbook? Or is it old, tattered, and st…
Stuff Your Stocking With A Sailing Vacation
I am wearing a sweater indoors, and I have wool socks on. I live in California and I cannot imagine what anyone in the northeast does during the wint…
Where Are We Going: Understanding Points of Sail
The direction of the wind dictates the direction a sailboat can sail. Understanding the points of sail is vital to understanding how sailors orient th…
Go Sailing in Hawaii
The first time you move across the channel between Maui and Molokai you are introduced to the tradewinds that blow over the West Maui Mountains. The s…
5 Tips For Planning A Sail From Let’s Go Sailing
The small boat sailing book “Let’s Go Sailing” is available from the American Sailing Association. SAILING Magazine says “The book is a sailin…
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…
How to Tie 3 Important Sailing Knots
There are as many sailing knots as there are stars in the night sky — or so it seems. But the reality is that most sailors can get along with only k…
From Landlubber to Old Salt: Beginner Sailing Tips
Learning to sail is easier than you think with a little help from ASA.
Featured School: Go Sail Virgin Islands
It seems like the U.S Virgin Islands always get overlooked by its neighboring cousin the BVI. Why? Getting to the US Virgin Islands is easier and if y…
Bite Sized Lessons : Apparent Wind
In this lesson we take a look at some sailing terminology used when talking about wind. Learn what an easterly wind is and the difference between onsh…
6 Sailing Bags You Need On Your Boat
I have to stop complaining about how many shoes my wife has because I probably have that many sailing bags. Yes, I have too many sailing bags and I am…
ASA Board Member Michael Pandzik Dies at 77
ASA Founder and Chairman Lenny Shabes and President Cindy Shabes, with profound sadness and deep regret, want to inform all members of the American Sa…
The Sailing Terms You Didn’t Know That You Didn’t Know
Is sailing a foreign language to you? Sailors have a set of terms that help communicate instructions to crew and generally describe the operation of t…