The New York YC’s American Magic was 0-2 with its America’s Cup challenges, and given its early eliminations from AC36 and AC37, the money burn rate was high and the return on investment low. It’s all ...

Last November, in southwest Africa, a landmark moment occurred in the history of sailing when Paul Larsen pegged the outright world sailing speed record. In recent years the record was eclipsed in ...

The Rolex New York YC Invitational Cup is a biennial regatta hosted by the New York YC in its fleet of equally matched IC37s. Teams of high-level amateur sailors representing their host clubs spanned ...

Maxi racing in the Med is hot. Call it a lesson in the value of getting your act together. The game has grown and changed dramatically—and deliberately—with fleets of 50 as the new normal. Ten years ...

The Royal Prince Edward YC confirmed on May 14 that its challenge for the Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup, Naples, had been accepted by the defenders of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron. The ...

In June of 2014, the Cornell University athletic department announced that their women’s sailing team would be elevated from a club level sport to varsity status, adding to the 36 other varsity teams ...

The denser the fiberglass ceiling, the more force is needed to demolish it. In the case of the biennial Transpacific Yacht Race (established 1906), this force had been gathering for 72 years before ...

The Remote Control (R/C) Laser Model is a scale version of the famous “one design” Laser, the most popular “real boat” sailing class in the world. The R/C Laser, however, does not require a trailer, ...

College sailing big-boat squads put their keelboat skills on display in Chicago for the first of three fall Intercollegiate Offshore Regattas.

Through all my years of dinghy sailing, especially come Laser frostbite season, the debate has carried on in my head: what’s it going to be today, wetsuit or drysuit? If I’m certain I’m not going to ...

Sailors can and will evolve. It’s OK to embrace a more modern singlehander, one that delivers the same simplicity and performance — and then some. The Melges 14, the judges agreed, is a righteous ...

And just like that, J/29 class racing has been reignited on the Chesapeake Bay. It’s been ages since these late-1980s vintage one-designs have met en masse, but at this year’s Helly Hansen Sailing ...