Seasickness Stinks!
6 tips to avoid seasickness! With the proper preparations and/or medications it doesn’t have to affect your day of sailing.
Tag: Cruising
7 To-Dos on the Spring Checklist!
The snow is in our proverbial wake and now it's time to get at that pre-launch spring checklist. Here are seven big ones that should be considered bef…
Discovering Love… and Sailing… with The Yacht Week
Adventure vacation for the young and single? Or low pressure introduction to sailing, cruising and chartering? Check out The Yacht Week...
It’s a Wonderful Life!
Jim Stewart & his wife Jane retired from the “real world” in 2001 and he started teaching sailing as a livelihood in 2004. Apparently he's quite g…
Cookin’ on the Boat!
Looking for some new recipes that you can actually make in your boat’s galley? Good food, but not gourmet?
Top 5 Things To Check Out While Cruising St. Martin!
In anticipation of the upcoming flotilla sailing charter vacation in St .Martin on November 13-22 we bring you – the top five cool things about sailing in…
VIDEO: Trailer for “Maidentrip,” documentary about Laura Dekker
For years here on the ASA blog we followed Laura Dekker’s amazing round-the-world sailing adventures. The Dutch teenager battled the legal system, contended with public…
ASA’s sailing books are for everyone
There are many sailing books on the market, but if you read them all you’d never have time to actually, you know, go sailing. This…
Saturday by the Bay – America’s Cup 2013
TWO 19TH CENTURY MARITIME TRADITIONS COME TOGETHER FOR ONE AFTERNOON Literarily speaking, aquatic travel for recreation began in 1857 with Henry David Thoreau’s Canoeing in…
Enter our 30th Anniversary Photo Contest, win prizes!
In the month of March, we’re celebrating our 30th anniversary by gathering great sailing photos from our members and fans! If you’ve got a great…
ASA in Croatia: Sailing the Adriatic
This post is about ASA’s 2012 Croatia sailing flotilla. You can also read about the Top 5 Things to See on the Dalmatian Coast here,…
ASA in Croatia: The Food of the Gods
This blog is about ASA’s 2012 Croatia Flotilla. Dubrovnik to Split, September 2012. “Every fish should swim three times,” goes a Croatian saying. “First in…
ASA in Croatia: Medieval Mysteries
This is a story about ASA’s 2012 Croatia Flotilla. For more info on upcoming ASA sailing flotillas, click here. Sailors (and tourists of all kinds)…
Cruising for the masses – from Sailing Magazine
A review of ASA’s Coastal Cruising Made Easy from the July/August 2012 issue of Sailing Magazine. Many sports, like swimming or soccer, are relatively easy…
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…
Sailing St. Martin: Grand Case
Continuing the story of the ASA St. Martin Flotilla 2012. PART THREE: BARBEQUE FOR EVERY MEAL As a finale, we spent two days in Grand…
Sailing St. Martin: Anguilla
Continuing the story of ASA’s 2012 St. Martin flotilla. PART TWO: THE ROOSTER CROWS FOR DAY After two nights in Gustavia, St. Barths, it was…
Sailing St. Martin: Arrival and St. Barths
This is how you arrive in St. Martin: the 737 screams in over tin rooftops and a strip of yellow beach, then desperately brakes on…