Author: Sepee

ASA 102, PERFORMANCE SAILING

ASA 102, “Performance Sailing” by Dave Goeke Conditions in the San Francisco Bay as anyone reading this knows are unusually challenging. It is not like sailing in San Diego or the Chesapeake. ASA 102, or ‘Performance Sailing’, is a new course offering from American Sailing designed to help students learn technical details of sail trim […]

Why you need old-fashioned navigation skills

Why you need old-fashioned navigation skills By Patrick Twohy   There’s been talk going around that navigation skills — the kind you’d learn in a Coastal Navigation class or a Celestial Navigation class — are no longer necessary. After all, each of us has a navigation device in our pockets, and most boats are packed […]