Sailing Made Easy: The Official Manual For The ASA 101 Basic Keelboat Sailing Course

American Sailing

Jan 2010 · Sailing Made Easy Book 1 · American Sailing

About this ebook

Sailing Made Easy is the first step in a voyage that will last you the rest of your life. It is a gift from a group of dedicated sailing professionals who have committed their lives to sharing their art, their skill, and their passion for this wonderful activity.

This book, which Sailing Magazine called "best in class" upon its release in 2010, is the most comprehensive education and boating safety learn-to-sail guide to date. It is also the official textbook for the ASA Basic Keelboat Standard (ASA 101). Incorporated in the textbook are useful illustrations and exceptional photographs of complex sailing concepts. The text’s most distinguishing feature is its user friendly "spreads" in which instructional topics are self-contained on opposing pages throughout the book. There are also chapter end quizzes and a glossary to help those new to sailing to navigate their way through the extensive nautical terminology. 

Ratings and reviews

The knowledge in this E-Book is pretty good an appropriate for the course. The reason for the one star is the illustrations, pictures and text are grainy and difficult to read/see. I have 20/20 vision and after a few minutes of looking at this book my eyes are fatigued. They should of done a much better job with the conversion to an electronic format.

My review has nothing to do with the e-book, more so to do with the price of it. ASA offers all of the paper books related to certification at a substantially reduced price in comparison. Environmentally, this is sinful. The price of these books should be sold at a rate that provides the initiative to use them as opposed to paper. Apple Books has all of these at a much cheaper rate.

eBook format is not suitable for Android phone. Cannot view page in portrait mode using full screen, pages do not dynamically resize text..

About the author

American Sailing (ASA) was founded in 1983 with a simply stated mission: to teach people to sail safely and confidently. To achieve that goal, the ASA set out to establish standards against which to measure a sailor’s level of knowledge and skill, the first such unified standards in the U.S. to apply to sailors in keelboats.

Today, American Sailing is an association of sailing schools, charter companies, professional sailing instructors, and sailors, with over 300 affiliated sailing schools located throughout the U.S., as well as in Europe, Japan, Central America, Taiwan, China, and other far eastern countries. These accredited schools offer ASA certification to individuals who meet the requirements for a given level. To date, ASA schools have certified over half a million sailors.

The ASA system has eight primary levels of student certification from Basic Keelboat all the way to Offshore Passagemaking. Whether your goal is to skipper a bareboat charter in the Caribbean or to crew confidently on a short weekend sail, the ASA’s sailing-education system will guide you as you learn the theory behind sailing, practice the skills needed to handle a sailboat, and build the foundation of knowledge that will enable you to navigate a vessel safely and within the law.

By establishing national standards for sailing education, the ASA has provided a way for more people to take part in the sport safely, with the proper training and respect for their responsibilities as boaters, ensuring that sailing will be safer, smarter, and more fun for everybody.