offshore sailing Articles

This month American Sailing is offering a free online class on how to start your sailing adventure. After all, you can’t keep fantasizing about sailing forever. Now is the time to make it happen. You’ll learn everything from finding the right boat to sailing it safely around the globe.  The Course: How To Start Your Cruising Adventure Course Description:  An Online Read More >

Four hundred miles off the coast of Barbados, and more than 2,500 miles into their voyage  Stan Dabrowny, 74, slipped and fell from the boat. His wife Elizabeth, 69, saw him fall and quickly threw some life rings to him. But here’s the bad news. Read More >

Being on the water is in Anne Alberg’s DNA. Her great-great-grandfather Anders Persson’s boat is displayed in the harbor in Boren, Sweden. Beginning with several boating vacations to Desolation Sound in British Columbia around the age of 10, Anne has dreamed of sailing to faraway places like the South Pacific, Croatia, Myanmar and Belize. Sailing to Captain Anne has always Read More >

Currently, a group of students is preparing to embark on a voyage from Bermuda to the British Virgin Islands. On that voyage, students will earn their ASA 108 and ASA 117 certifications while instructors will earn ASA 208 and ASA 217. ASA 108, Offshore PassagemakingLearn to skipper a sailing vessel on extended offshore passages requiring celestial navigation. Knowledge of long-term Read More >

In this guest post, Captain Tony Wall of Biscayne Bay Sailing Academy recounts delivering a 46′ sloop–while managing the effects of a nearby hurricane. As a professional sailing instructor and USCG captain, I was contracted to sea trial a 46′ Bruce Roberts sloop named Harmony. Everything went satisfactorily, the deal went through, and the new owner, Veli-Matti Alho, asked me Read More >