Once, while coaching a team before the Rolex International Women’s Keelboat Championship, someone asked me about jib sail trim, so I hopped on board and sat to leeward to video their jib leech while ...

Roller-furling jibs, once viewed as a convenience for cruising boats, have become a real game-changer in the sportboat world. For example, in the prestart, when you want to control your speed and kill ...

NEWPORT, R.I. — “Good choice! You stole some wind,” the screen read on the race simulator at The Sailing Museum. “Woo-hoo!” hooted participant (and non-sailor) Paul Kelley of Marstons Mills, as he ...

“This race is won or lost at night.” That had been the advice to new participants like us a few weeks earlier at a skippers’ meeting in preparation for the 56th annual Newport to Ensenada Yacht Race.

The South Carolina Maritime Museum’s summer sailing camps have a lot to offer for kids as well as adults and parents. Paz Higgins has been participating in the sailing camp for six years. This is ...

Bill’s boat shoe dangled above my head as I clung to the lifeline cable, looking directly up at the cockpit, which was pitched at 90 degrees above me. The lower half of my body was submerged in San ...

Clouds slowly skipped across the sky and scattered the grey daylight revealing only sporadic spots of blue and muddling the colors of the boats bobbing near the docks below. It was nearing 5 p.m. and ...