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…
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Five Essential Bareboat Charter Skills
Here are 5 essential skills to master before you leave the dock for your first bareboat charter sailing vacation.
What Is Your Role on a Boat?
Your ASA sailing education will prepare you to be a skipper on a sailing vessel and with that comes the responsibility of keeping your crew safe and e…
What Does That Mean on a Boat?
Confusing Boat Vocabulary Inevitably you will have a non-sailor on your boat and you’ll ask them for something or you will refer to something else a…
Sailing Terms Everyone Should Know
Knowing the right sailing terms to use on board a boat is not JUST a way of sounding super cool and impressing your friends. (Though it works for that…
Should ASA Instructors (and Skippers in General) Be Good Swimmers?
Should You Know How to Swim to Learn to Sail? For sailors who grew up perpetually wet from ages 5 to 25, having fun righting capsized dinghies, less f…
Tips From The Teach: The Boom Vang
We all have questions and it seems like a boat is a perfect place to be perplexed by a lack of knowledge even if you…
Tips From The Teach
We all have questions and it seems like a boat is a perfect place to be perplexed by a lack of knowledge even if you are a salty veteran of the sea. N…