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…
Tag: ASA 101
ASA 101 Basic Keelboat Sailing – What You’ll Learn
ASA 101 Basic Keelboat Sailing will teach you how to sail and is step one of a sailing adventure that will last a lifetime. This is the first course i…
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…
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…
How A Boat Sails Upwind
A sailor’s life revolves around the wind. Its direction and its strength govern where he can sail, with what degree of difficulty or comfort, and h…
ASA 101, New Sailor Resources
Congratulations, you have earned your ASA 101 Basic Keelboat Sailing certification! It’s time to go sailing and build upon your sailing education. R…
Sailing Terms and Multiple Meanings
Do you have those moments when you say one thing but those around you think you meant something else? Well, welcome to life on a sailboat. Sailing voc…
5 Spots To Use Your ASA 101 Certification
Not long ago I watched as a pair of newlyweds hired my 12-year-old to teach them how to sail. We were on vacation and my two boys had been zipping acr…
8 Things I Learned in ASA 101
Join Lauren on her adventure as she embarks on a journey to learn to sail. Follow her as she gets her feet wet as a…
From ASA 101 to Unforgettable Adventures Crossing Oceans
ASA Certified Sailor Scott Elles is Living Life There are some truly amazing circle-the-globe races out there. There’s the Volvo Ocean Race, the Vendee Globe,…
ASA 101 Exam Day
Join Lauren on her adventure as she embarks on a journey to learn to sail with Santa Barbara Sailing Center. Follow her as she gets…
Sailing in the Clouds with Santa Barbara Sailing
Join Lauren on her adventure as she embarks on a journey to learn to sail with Santa Barbara Sailing. Follow her as she gets her…
First Day of Sailing School
The night before my first day of sailing school was spent eyeballing a huge pile of clothes and items on my floor, trying to decide what exactly I sho…
Getting My Feet Wet
In just fifteen short hours, my days of watching from the shorelines are over. This is the year I trade in my bystander hat for a flashy pair of parta…