Our new video “This is Navy Sailing” will premiere at the Friends of Navy Sailing 2023 Banquet in Annapolis. The YouTube premiere goes live at 10 pm Eastern, Saturday 26 August!

Why We Sail

“We teach sailing here at the Naval Academy for one purpose: to make competent seamen of our midshipmen, who will be the naval leaders of the future.

We enter races to find an atmosphere which, like combat, stretches ability and endurance to the limit for that extra margin required for victory.

And we send them to sea to learn the fundamental characteristic of professional seamanship: a deep-seated sense of humility in the face of nature and her master.”

- Captain John Bonds, USN  |  Former Director, Naval Academy Sailing

 The Naval Academy Sailing Foundation (NASF) is an IRS 501(c)(3) charitable tax-exempt corporation, chartered in the State of Maryland since 1973. Its sole function is to further the mission of the United States Naval Academy, primarily through direct support to the sail training program at the Naval Academy