Explore Wilson Trophy team racing at West Kirby, where the pinnacle of sailing excellence meets the enchanting world of ...

Imagine that you’re lifted and sailing toward a puff. You’re all good, but your luck runs out when you’re headed before you ...

Discover the Newport International Boat Show’s new product awards, featuring 2025's top innovations and award-winning boats.

At the water’s edge on a ­bayside beach in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida, a vibrant orange Windmill sits in its dolly. Crisp white sails hang limp from the spars, but invisible puffs excite ...

Emirates GBR driver Dylan Fletcher said, “We’re absolutely stoked to have finished top after the first day, it was a great day of racing on the 18-meter wings. We’re just looking forward to Geneva now ...

San Diego Yacht Club wins the 2025 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup in a thrilling final-race comeback.

The tidy Vakaros RaceSense platform is gaining wider usage across many one-design classes and is universally lauded by the sailors. As a race officer with the New York YC, I and many others, have been ...

It’s early April on Miami’s Biscayne Bay, with an 18-knot easterly, gnarly chop and ribbons of sargassum seaweed—tough fare for racing any boat. We’re at the 2023 Don Q Snipe Regatta, heading uphill ...

Tony Lush was in trouble—the deep, dangerous sort that you can get yourself into only when you race sailboats alone across vast oceans. It was late November 1982. Two weeks earlier, Lush had set sail ...

“Mechatronics engineer.” That’s one job title that never existed back in the America’s Cup’s 12-Metre era. But today, every Cup team has a few on payroll. These are the unknown wizards tasked with ...

Spotting the starting line by eye is a practice that has remained unchanged for generations. For small fleets, a simple look down the line works well, but as the line gets stretched out to accommodate ...

This past spring, I started ­sailing a Naples Sabot, which is a Southern California kids’ boat, somewhat like an Opti. There have always been adults, as well as kids, in this class, but when the ...