Top 5 ASA Posts of 2015

Looking back over the year of 2015 we’ve published some great content – here are the top 5 posts of 2015, voted for by you and your mouse clicks!

1. Docking Made Easy Quiz…
   Cruising World presents “Docking Made Easy” an ASA educational video in association with Beneteau America. Watch the video and then take our fun docking quiz!! Read more…
1. Five classic (and affordable) fiberglass mid-sized cruising boats
   There are so many cruising boats and so many opinions, anointing rank is probably not a good idea. However, these boats are definitely very popular for good reason and worth singling out for their virtues. Read more…
1. Top Seven Celebrity Sailors
   Through a very stringent process that involved a complicated algorithm, a set of dice, and the hair of a newt, we came up with our list of the 7 most interesting high-profile people who we consider true sailors. We ranked the celebrity sailors using a mathematical break down of the bandwidth of their fame divided by their admitted love and devotion for sailing. Read more…
1. Sailing Terms Quiz
   Okay, here’s a quick little quiz of sailing terms born from our Sailing Made Easy book. Test your sailing knowledge with these 5 questions – if you get them all right, the quiz will give you compliments. If you make a mistake, the quiz may act like a wise guy. Either way, it’s fun. Ready? Read more…
1. 10 Phrases You Never Knew Came From Sailing
   When you stop to think about it… sailing is pretty amazing. From a historical perspective, through its role in travel, trade and war, it was the absolute hinge of western civilization for hundreds of years. Through that time, sailors’ slang and terminology became rooted in the English lexicon and still exists profoundly to this day. Read more…

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