April 11, 2021 | ATLANTIC YACHTING| ON THE WATER Register NOW for Youth Sailing, Adult Sailing Lessons, and Yacht Charters in NYC
Opening Day for 2021 Sailing is May 1st. We'll be sailing from Tribeca's Pier 25 as well as W79th Street Boat Basin on the Upper West Side.
June 27, 2020 | ATLANTIC YACHTING| COMMUNITY| EVENTS| ON THE WATER| SUPER NAUTICAL| THING WE LOVE 
Adult Sailing Lessons began today.
Youth Sailing Programs begin this Monday, June 29th.
Join us at our new location at Pier 25 in Tribeca. We're offering Private Sailing Lessons, Group Sailing Lessons, Practice Sails, and Youth Sailing Programs.
See you on the water.
April 8, 2020 | ATLANTIC YACHTING| COMMUNITY| ON THE WATER We are still accepting registrations for the 2020 Summer Sailing season in NYC. All reservation fees/ tuitions are fully refundable should COVID-19 safety concerns and restrictions extend into the sailing season. Gift certificates are also a great way to get excited about sailing while supporting your neighborhood family business.
Atlantic Yachting's number one concern is keeping our staff and customers safe. We will be following all local and federal guidelines and recommendations pertaining to when we are allowed to open for the season. Once open, it is clear we will be operating in a new environment with regard to sanitizing the vessels and equipment.
Stay safe everyone and we hope to see you on the water soon.
March 30, 2020
Photo Credit @GarethRoades via Twitter
The hospital ship Comfort arrives in NYC to provide extra hospital capacity for non-COVID patients in NYC. We pass this ship yearly taking our boat down to Wilmington, NC. Can't say how excited we are to see her making the trip north to see us. Watch it live!
March 12, 2020 
We're growing! This season we’ll be adding a new location: Tribeca’s Pier 25. Our same great Adult Sailing Lessons and Youth Sailing Summer Programs will be offered at this downtown location for your convenience. Uptown or downtown, we'll see you on the water in May!
March 10, 2020 We New Yorkers love our city, and we love to share it with our friends and family when they visit. If you live here long enough, you'll rack up hundreds of miles walking your guests through Central Park and the Met Museum, and dozens of vertical miles riding elevators to skyscraper observation decks. Along with their amazement that we can so effortlessly navigate the subway, my visiting friends always ask—usually through labored breaths—"How do you walk so much every day?!" The answer is that I don't; I'm walking this much to show you around the city, and it's frankly exhausting! Wouldn't it be nice to point out the sights of NYC without having to leave the dinner table?
Fortunately, there's a way to get incredible views of the city and some of its most iconic attractions without wearing out your friends, or your feet—see it by boat! At AY, we do private sightseeing charters almost every day, and a majority of them are for New Yorkers who have cracked the code: they get to play tour guide to their friends without ever having to put down their glass of rosé.
Obviously, there are some points of interest that are impossible to see unless you're on land—Central Park is invisible from the water (unless you're on a rowboat in the lake) but here are five attractions that are actually more impressive when seen from offshore.
Made famous by films like Wall Street and The Thomas Crown affair, the Wall Street Heliport is also the primary landing site for Marine One when The President of the United States visits the city. Even without a VIP guest security is fairly tight, but you can get a great view of it from the water, without a pat-down from TSA.
If you've ever read the classic children's book The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge by Hildegarde H. Swift and Lynd Ward, you might be surprised to learn that both actually exist! While you can access the lighthouse (and the bridge, obviously) by land, it's not easy, and sailing under the bridge brings a whole new perspective of the huge scale of this Progressive Era public works project. It's a great destination for those visitors who need a break from the energy of downtown.
Photo: Garret Zigler via Flikr
This massive new cluster of skyscrapers off 34th St. on Manhattan's West Side is built literally on top of still-working rail lines. Sure, you can wait in line to take a stroll on "Vessel," the gilded, mile-long stairway sculpture at the center of the complex, or you can sail by, take all the pictures you want, and not waste half an hour accidentally waiting in line for the MegaBus to Philly, which boards just a block away.
Every year, on the anniversary of September 11, the 9/11 Memorial and Museum shines 88 searchlights in two vertical columns as an act of remembrance of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. While on a clear night the lights are visible from over 60 miles away, there's a reflective solemnity that comes from seeing the display while quietly sailing along the shore of Lower Manhattan on the Hudson River.
Photo: Juan Rubiano via Flikr
When you first get dropped in the middle of Manhattan, it's easy to feel like a rat in a maze. It's hard to get a sense of the scale—the grandeur—of our city. That grandeur is easy to see from the water. From there, you can see every sky scraper that megalomaniacal 20th Century corporate kingpins erected to dominate the skyline the way they’d dominated the market. Contrast these with the modern supertall luxury buildings like 432 Park Ave. which, when it sold, was the most expensive residential real estate in the world. But the cumulative effect is more than a bunch of shiny shrines to corporate aspiration, it’s a marvel of human striving, ambition, and ingenuity. And it's a perspective that's only possible when you take a step back.
6.) Statue of Liberty
No trip to the city—some would say the country—would be complete without seeing one of the most famous statues in the world. While you can take a ferry to Liberty Island to see this American icon, you'll be so close you'll basically be looking up Lady Liberty's robe. For the best view, cruise by on a boat just as the sun's setting behind the statue in the west. We make this trip dozens of times every summer, and the view never gets old.
March 6, 2020
If you want to get away from it all, you can't get much farther than the literal end of the earth. Tierra del Fuego is the southernmost point in the Americas. Although it's been populated for thousands of years, Europeans first learned of it through Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage of circumnavigation in 1520. It's where the currents of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans violently clash, and until the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, "Rounding Cape Horn" was a treacherous but necessary passage to transport goods by sea from one American coast to the other.
Team Brunel rounds Cape Horn in the 2015 Volvo Ocean Race. No thank you! Photo - Rick Tomlinson/Volvo Ocean Race
Logan would opt for a more leisurely cruise inland, through the fjords and channels of Chile, which provide stunning views of both enormous rock formations and shimmering glaciers. If you want to get back to nature, this is the way to do it. In fact, Logan would be following a course charted by another great naturalist, Charles Darwin om The Beagle, who explored this area in 1830, leaving its mark on the territory with locales like The Beagle Channel and Mount Darwin. In writing about Tierra del Fuego Darwin said, "It is scarcely possible to imagine anything more beautiful than the beryl-like blue of these glaciers, and especially as contrasted with the dead white of the upper expanse of snow."
We hear you, Logan. NYC sailing is incredible, but when you need to get away from it all—like really, really away—you can't pick a more pristine spot than the fjords of southern Chile and Tierra del Fuego.
March 4, 2020 There are over 17,000 islands making up the Republic of Indonesia, so there's no chance of running out of places to explore. Jonathan's sailed exclusively in the Atlantic Ocean, so a chance to sail in the Indian and Pacific Oceans is super exciting. The Hudson has prepared him to handle the strong currents running through the islands most of the year. That's about the only thing he'd be prepared for, because of the over 700 languages currently spoken in Indonesia, Jonathan speaks exactly zero. That's okay though, the shared language of the sea breaks down barriers. He'd stick out like a sore American thumb in Bali and probably be herded to some tourist attractions, like the Uluwu Temple, and cry while reading Eat, Pray, Love in the town of Ubud. Then he'd go to the Ubud Monkey Forest, where a majestic grey long-tailed macaque would definitely steal that copy of Eat, Pray, Love.
Raja Ampat - just a few of 17,000 islands. Photo by sutirta budiman on Unsplash
He'd hand-gesture his way to an Indonesian dive shop to access some of the best scuba diving in the world, since Indonesia makes up one leg of the legendary "Coral Triangle" which contains thousands of species of coral. The area has so much marine biodiversity it's called "The Amazon of the Seas."
He'd see things like this.
Hooded Cuttlefish. Photo - prilfish via Flickr
and this.
Manta Rays off Komodo Island. Photo - Eva Funderburgh via Flickr
and he'd definitely do this. 
Whale Shark fist bump! Photo - Marcel Ekkel via Flickr
He'd head to the island of Komodo, because there are actual dragons there!
Komodo Dragon felt cute. Might delete later.
Photo - Richard Wasserman via Flickr
The sailing would be great, the visas epic, and he'd come back with a few choice phrases in Balinese, such as "Another round of Arak, if you please!" (Arak is basically Balinese rum) and "Excuse me, could you direct me to an honest outboard mechanic?"
March 2, 2020 | ATLANTIC YACHTING| EVENTS| KNOWLEDGE| LIFESTYLE Luring families and partiers alike (or a family of partiers—why be binary?) the Dalmatian Coast of the Adriatic Sea is a favorite charter ground for sailors around the world. From the storybook Medieval walled town of Dubrovnik to the Roman ruins peering down from hillsides as you sail past, to untouched beaches on remote islands, there's just too much to absorb for one trip, which is why almost everyone we've met who has sailed around Croatia gets off the plane already planning their next trip back.
The town of Split, Croatia. Yes, it's all this beautiful
If you're traveling for history, nature, and not to party, you may want to check the dates for Yacht Week. Then cross them out in black on your calendar. Twice. Yacht Week is a yearly booze cruise flotilla that sails en masse throughout the region. While no one on the AY staff has gone, we hear it's a pretty wild time. If that's the goal of your vacation, go for it! If it's not, and it arrives unexpectedly into your secluded anchorage, it can feel like SantaCon just descended upon your favorite local pub. You know what we're talking about, New Yorkers
Knowing Dave, he'd probably hit up the party scene in Hvar Town for a night, then the catch the morning SE Maestral wind to reach over to Vis, a more isolated island farther offshore and off-limits to tourists until the 90's. He needs some excuse to fire up the grill for dinner (Note: Dave never needs an excuse to fire up the grill.). Plus, none of the dance clubs play his kind of music.
In Hvar Town, even the art wants to get on a boat. Photo - Sarah Hahn
February 29, 2020 | ATLANTIC YACHTING| COMMUNITY| LIFESTYLE| ON THE WATER As professional sailors, we get to sail every day, all season long. Sounds like a dream, right? I can tell you from experience that reaching past the Statue of Liberty under full sail never gets old, even after hundreds of sails.
But even those with dream jobs have dreams, so over the next week or so, we’ll share one bucket-list sailing destination from a member of our team. So if you're brainstorming your next sailing getaway, take a look at these suggestions and see if any spark your interest. Also, if you need crew…we may be available.
Sunset near Lorain lighthouse on Lake Erie by Rona Proudfoot (CC license)
Eric grew up sailing on lakes in Indiana, so it only makes sense that he'd want to get back to his roots, just with upgraded lakes! Eric said he'd like to take a leisurely tour of each of the Great Lakes, stopping at points of interest in each. This is obviously a year-long plus trip, and given the high latitudes of the Great Lakes, he'd be limited to summer sailing. So you can't go yet, Eric. Your adoring fans await the return of you and your cowboy hat on The Hudson this season!
The Great Lakes are basically inland, freshwater seas, or "Sweetwater Seas" as French explorers dubbed them, so suggesting an exhaustive itinerary would be like planning a trip through the entire Caribbean. Suffice to say there's an immense amount of city life as well as natural beauty to be found here, but knowing Eric, we're pretty sure there are a few spots you'll be sure to find him.
Eric's an actor off the water, so he'll definitely take in a show at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago on the southern tip of Lake Michigan. He might also get recruited to jump on a boat for the historic Chicago Yacht Club Race to Macinac Island. As a farm boy, he'd love the turn-of-the-century charm of the island. No cars allowed—only horses and bikes.
Macinac Island: No cars, just right. Photo - Wikipedia
From there, he could be through the locks of the St. Lawrence Seaway and sailing down the Atlantic coast in a few weeks—or a few years, depending on how thick the fog is, and many microbreweries he decides to tour. Whenever you get there, Eric, send us a case or two of your favorite.
Close quarters waiting for the locks on the St. Lawrence Seaway. Share that beer!
February 27, 2020 Our intrepid crew of students, accompanied by AY instructors Jonathan and Dave, just finished our annual ASA 104 Bareboat Cruising certification course in the British Virgin Islands.
Here are just a few shots of our seven-day journey of chart plotting, anchor weighing, island hopping, sunset admiring and (responsible) rum sampling that one well-traveled student called the best trip she'd ever been on. 
Day 1: Pasty and in the shade
Morning classroom session over coffee.
Plotting the day's course from Jost Van Dyke to Cane Garden Bay.
Lori steers us there safely and in style!
Stephanie hangs on the high side
Gotta love the trade winds!
Anegada is made for Insta.
Anegada's famous rock lobster. 
One of seven sunsets too beautiful to capture. Dave does a pretty good job though!
January 20, 2020 | ATLANTIC YACHTING| COMMUNITY| SPECIALS| SUPER NAUTICAL 
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August 28, 2019 | ATLANTIC YACHTING| COMMUNITY| ON THE WATER| SUPER NAUTICAL What an unbelievable journey by a young sailor that's only how old???
Greta Thunberg is the incredible Swedish sailor who just sailed in NYC, after crossing the Atlantic, at the age of 16
Learn more about Greta, her climate change goals, and more in this great NPR piece.
May 17, 2019 | ATLANTIC YACHTING| COMMUNITY| EVENTS| FRIENDS| GALLERIES| IN THE NEWS| KNOWLEDGE| LIFESTYLE| ON THE WATER| PRESS| PROFILES| REVIEWS| SPECIALS| SUPER NAUTICAL| THING WE LOVE| YACHT ROCK| sailor made 
We're full sail for the 2019 Summer Sailing Season in Manhattan.
We're excited for another great season of Sailing on the Hudson River in NYC. Can it get any better than sailing without having to leave the city? We have such a great staff line up (profiles coming soon) for this summer and can't wait to see everyone out there... full sail.
Join us for Private Yacht Charters, Sailing Lessons with Manhattan's Oldest Sailing School, or Youth Sailing Programs for kids ages 9-15
April 11, 2019 | ATLANTIC YACHTING| LIFESTYLE| ON THE WATER| SUPER NAUTICAL The best NYC Instagram locations... from the water of course.
The 42nd Street Canyon. The skyline is changing so fast, but luckily this shot across one of the city's greatest streets is still unobstructed.
Get Behind The Statue of Liberty. There is a reason you don't see lady liberty's bum that often. Its hard to get the shot. With Lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge framing the shot, it can make the perfect instagram opportunity.
The Brooklyn Bridge... from below! The view from center span, river level, is incredible. You just have to remember put the phone down and take a second to absorb the grandeur of the full setting.
Walk There. The west side bike path has some of the best sunset opportunities in the city. Like this one... taken a few steps south of Pier i Cafe, near W 72nd street.
The Skyline (from above the Holland Tunnel). While hundreds of cars zoom 80ft below, the angle on the skyline from the Hudson river, right around the tunnel, makes for an incredible shot. When sunset reflects on the windows it gets really, really good.
Get out there and get the shot aboard one of our boats. RESERVE NOW
April 1, 2019 | ATLANTIC YACHTING| COMMUNITY| SPECIALS| SUPER NAUTICAL 
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See you out there, sailing on the beautiful Hudson River, soon!
February 24, 2019 | ATLANTIC YACHTING| COMMUNITY| EVENTS| ON THE WATER| SUPER NAUTICAL| THING WE LOVE 
Caribbean Sailing Recap
The ASA 104 student group that went to BVI in early Feb. had an absolute blast. Thanks to all those who joined us and thanks to Jonathan and Dave for an incredible week of instruction and fun!
Get your ASA 103 this summer and join us in February 2020.
January 14, 2019 | ATLANTIC YACHTING| COMMUNITY| SPECIALS 
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January 3, 2019 | ATLANTIC YACHTING| COMMUNITY| ON THE WATER The 2019 sailing season countdown is on!!!
Registration and bookings for Private Yacht Charters, Group Sailing Lessons, Private Sailing Lessons, Practice Sails, and Youth Sailing Camp will go live January 15th for the Summer 2019 season. Can't wait to see you out there again!
Stay tuned for great January early booking discounts too.
