The October 2020 NWSA President’s Member of the Month, Lisa Goodwin holds a USCG 100 Ton Master Near Coastal and 200 Ton Mate Oceans licenses with sailing and towing endorsements. She is also active in the US Coast Guard Auxiliary as Flotilla Staff Officer...
NWSA President’s Member of the Month for September 2020, Angelica Maria Lopez joined NWSA then jumped right in an volunteered to help review, edit and update the website. She is excited to be a part of the women’s sailing sisterhood, helping with editing the...
OFFERING DIVERSITY September 11, 2021 The 20th National Women’s Sailing Conference will be at the Jackson Park Yacht Club in Chicago! Our theme “Sharing Sailing” will celebrate women who teach, coach and find ways to invite women aboard. Women sailors...
Laura Howell’s father lived a life connected to the sea through work in the Coast Guard, then as an Alaskan fisherman, yet he could not understand Laura’s choice to live her life aboard a small sailboat while raising her young daughter alone. Her touching...
St. Croix Yacht Club held a Girls’ Introduction to Sailing Day on May 4th. The event was sponsored by the Women’s Sailing Foundation and allowed the club to provide a free day of sailing to girls from all across the island between ages 9 to 12. Twelve girls...
After four years, the New Orleans AdventureSail® is blossoming into what our founders may have envisioned for the program. It is beginning to fulfill the goals; “To enrich the lives of America’s young at-risk girls through sailing, thus opening their eyes...
