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Lessons Learned

From childhood swims to boat ownership and coaching, one woman’s journey shows how passion for the water can grow into confidence and career.
Trailer sailing can open up new waters for exploration.

Encouraging Landlocked Sailors to Embrace Trailer Sailing

Trailer sailing makes sailing portable and helps inland sailors access new waters with confidence, flexibility, and freedom.
Set sail for Caribbean Bliss with Sunsail

Set Sail for Caribbean Bliss with Sunsail

Plan the ultimate BVI sailing charter—find top snorkel spots, map your route, and choose between a catamaran or monohull.
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Performance Race Week 2026 St Thomas

Performance Race Week 2026: High Performance Sailing in St. Thomas five days of racing and skill building on the water.
Hoist the Sails featuring Kira Maxner

Hoist the Sails

Women who Sail share their stories, highlighting how growing participation and mentorship are shaping a more inclusive future for the sport.
Women Who Made History On the Water

Women Who Made History on the Water

Women Who Made History on the Water: A Voyage Through Centuries of Sail explores pirate queens, circumnavigators, and modern racers who changed sailing forever.

Frostbiting

Frostbiting: Detroit sailors launch Lasers into chilly Lake St. Clair for late-season racing, camaraderie, and one last taste of fall sailing.

Welcome to Spite Sailing

Welcome to Spite Sailing follows two women racing offshore shorthanded in pursuit of leadership, access, and adventure.

Sailing Into STEM

Sailing Into STEM explores how sailing brings science, engineering, math, and physics to life through hands-on learning.

Terror at Night

Nighttime MOB Drills and Steering Failure at Sea reveals offshore lessons in seamanship problem solving and calm under pressure

Sailing in Force 8

Sailing in Force 8: Heavy Weather and a Measure of Rum explores seamanship, preparation, and the human side of surviving heavy seas.

Anyone Can Be a Sailor. Start Here.

Anyone Can Be a Sailor. Discover how ASA 101 builds confidence, teaches the basics, and helps beginners feel at home on the water.
Seattle Boat Show

Seattle Boat Show

Seattle Boat Show: A look at who we are meeting events we love and seminars worth your time at the 2026 Seattle Boat Show.
Steerless Night

A Steer-less Night

A severely compromised Tayana 48 is forced to lie ahull during an all-night gale in an aborted attempt to reach the Caribbean.
Learning to Sail Beyond Limitations

Learning to Sail Beyond Limitations

Learning to Sail Beyond Limitations shows how adaptive sailing builds confidence independence and skill for sailors of all abilities.

Wrong Way Bash

The story of a hard fought delivery up the West Coast and the lessons learned bashing north against wind and sea.
Sailing Beyond ASA 104

Sailing Beyond ASA 104

How to turn your bareboat certification into real experience, confidence, and mornings at anchor
10 Things I Wish I’d Known as a New Sailor

10 Things I Wish I’d Known as a New Sailor

10 Things I Wish I’d Known as a New Sailor shares practical lessons on confidence, safety, and seamanship learned through experience.