Discover the thrilling 2025 12 Metre Championship in Newport, showcasing timeless yacht racing as the fleet sails toward the ...

The iceboating season is as fleeting as it is fast, so while the water is soft, there’s space to reflect on the good and hard ...

The centerboarder to generations of recreational and racing sailors can now be enjoyed in a number of ways. The enduring Sunfish, created by Alexander Bryan and Cortland Heyinger back in the early ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some people say the ­mainsail is the trickiest and most important source of power in the inventory, and be that as it may—depending on whom you ask—the headsail is incredibly dynamic and critical to ...