A host of excited foreign accents can already be heard on the waterfront as crews fly in for the Inaugural Melges 15 Europeans Championships, which will be held on the Hyland Shipping course at the ...

The French Beneteau First 18 SE is a modern and fun gateway to keel-boat sailing. Wide, flat and stable hull; ballasted swinging keel; gennaker snuffer system; furling jib and minimised deck controls ...

Quantum Detroit’s Wally Cross spends a lot of time racing and leading coaching clinics on the J/111. In his previous article Three Modes of Upwind Sailing, Wally shared the details of upwind sailing.

In this report by Tim Zimmermann, he shares how the Chesapeake confounds (again), but losing is winning (really), during the Annapolis NOOD Doublehanded race. On Saturday, Rich Hoyer and I set out to ...

Seven boats braved the rain and a strong North Easterly gusting up towards 25 knots at times and a spring flood tide to race in the fourth race hosted by the Burnham Sailing Club. At the gun, Mantra, ...

Some of the biggest gains in development in recent years have come from top end yacht racing, as the IMOCA 60 Class. Designed to be sailed single or double handed, these boats needed sail handling and ...

New technology, as with high fashion, is usually introduced at the top end of the market and initially adopted by trailblazers before elements gradually filter down to the mass market. The is also ...

Want to get more speed out of your asymmetric spinnaker and become more comfortable racing with this type of sail? It’s worth remembering, first off, that all your knowledge of speed with traditional ...

An asymmetric spinnaker only needs to work in reach mode, so it’s typically designed flatter than a symmetric spinnaker. Because the luff is always the luff and the leech always the leech, sail ...