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 ...

As the J/Boat team leader for Quantum Sails, I spend a lot of time racing with customers on current J/Boat models. Many of these boats have non-overlapping jibs with controls for sheeting the jib. The ...

Sail Newport, Rhode Island's public sailing center, announced at the Newport International Boat Show on Thursday that the ...

A cruiser shares lessons from replacing worn Dacron with modern sails and explains how new technology can improve cruising.

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 ...

I HELD ON TIGHT. My job was to hang onto the rope leading to the jib, holding just tight enough so the smaller sail could catch the wind. Seemed easy enough, until I started to lose sensation in my ...

Duck your head. That's the first advice that I, a newbie to sailing, hear from club members as I help Kurt Miller to prep his boat for launch onto Eagle Lake. Then I look at the boom that could whack ...

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 ...

Marie Klok Crump led 4Teenz to victory in the J/105 Women’s Regatta. The entry was so named because it was crewed by ...

I enjoy cruising; my wife detests it. She dislikes the confined quarters, the dining-room policies that seat you with strangers, the lip-synched entertainment, the temptation to devour six meals a day ...