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US Sailing Now Offering New Safety at Sea Online Education

US Sailing has launched the new Safety at Sea Online course, featuring eight-modules of online Safety at Sea curriculum designed for sailors of all types and levels — cruisers and racers, novices and experts. In addition to offering this course, US Sailing will continue to sanction two-day “in-person” courses as well, organized by many of the best yacht clubs and yachting associations around the country, and those who complete the course will receive the same certification.

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US Sailing Awards Hanson Rescue Medal to Sailors for Saving Three in Buzzards Bay

The US Sailing Safety at Sea Committee awarded the Arthur B. Hanson Rescue Medal to Martha Seabury, a new wooden schooner, whose sailors rescued three individuals from a capsized sailboat in Buzzards Bay on September 10, 2012.

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Hanson Medals Awarded for Rescues at Flying Scot Atlantic Coast Championship

The US Sailing Arthur B. Hanson Rescue Medal is awarded for bravery on the waterways. PORTSMOUTH, RI (February 1, 2016) - The US Sailing Safety at Sea Committee awarded the Arthur B. Hanson Rescue Medals to eight boats for their heroic efforts when a microburst storm hit the 2015 Flying Scot Atlantic Coast Championship, hosted…Read More

US Sailing Awards Hanson Medals for Rescue at 2014 Newport Bermuda Race

[caption id="attachment_22653" align="alignright" width="500"] Left to Right: James Cummiskey, John Melvin, US Sailing Safety at Sea presenter Gino Bottino, Jake Kramer, Lars Forsberg, IHYC Vice Commodore Karin Nye, IHYC Commodore Martin Jacobson. Photo credit to Mary Alice Fisher.[/caption] PORTSMOUTH, RI (November 18, 2015) – The US Sailing Safety at Sea Committee has awarded the Arthur…Read More

Hanson Medals Awarded for Rescue at Dauphin Island Race

US Sailing Awards Hanson Rescue Medals to Crew on Light O Mobile and Larry Goolsby PORTSMOUTH, RI (August 24, 2015) - The US Sailing Safety at Sea Committee will award the Arthur B. Hanson Rescue Medals to a sailboat's crew and to a skipper of another capsized sailboat for their heroic efforts displayed during a…Read More

US Sailing Seeks Recommendations for Safety Equipment Requirements

Portsmouth, R.I. (July 1, 2015) - When US Sailing introduced the sailor-friendly Safety Equipment Requirements (SER) in early 2015, we wanted to make it as simple as possible to prepare boats for offshore sailing. Updated with revised language and re-organized into three categories, the SERs have been widely adopted by organizing authorities across the country.…Read More

US Sailing to Offer Interactive Online Learning as Part of Safety at Sea Training

Inspired by efforts to make Safety at Sea training and certification more interactive and accessible, US Sailing has partnered with The Storm Trysail Club (STC) to offer a Safety at Sea Seminar featuring hands-on practice with new interactive online learning modules and videos. The seminar will take place April 18, 2015 at SUNY Maritime College…Read More

US Sailing Highlights 2014 Initiatives and Looks Ahead to a Promising 2015

Dear Sailors, We hope that 2014 brought you and your family much happiness and that you had opportunities to remain active in your respective sailing communities with family and friends. The year 2014 has been another year of growth and expansion of programs for US Sailing, aimed at better serving all types of sailors at…Read More