From roller furlers to square-top mains, today's trimarans offer big speed and smart sailhandling for coastal cruisers. The ...

An experienced cruising couple shares hard-earned lessons from 55,000 miles aboard their 46-foot liveaboard catamaran. The post Inside the Cruising Catamaran Life: A Veteran Couple's Two-Hulled ...

The outright world speed sailing record still stands at 65.37 knots (75.23 mph, or 121.06 km/h) and was set some 13 years ago by Paul Larsen in the Vestas Sailrocket 2.

Almost 10 months after a Texas family’s boat capsized off the coast of Homer, Alaska, a search turned up human remains at the bottom of the bay. In August 2024, the U.S. Coast Guard searched for ...

No one was hurt after a sailboat flipped over Sunday afternoon on Lake Sunapee. First responders arrived at the scene shortly before 2:45 p.m. after receiving a report of an overturned boat.

Once you’re underway you tighten the backstay. “Each time you furl or unfurl, you should ease your backstay tension for the process before pulling it back on, but in reality that’s often hard to do ...

The anchor is dropped after a beautiful day of sailing, a simple meal is eaten in the cockpit with a view of the sunset, and then it's off to bed early, as exhausted and happy as only sailors can be.

At boot Düsseldorf, we will finally be able to touch the new Hallberg-Rassy 69, the largest yacht ever built by the shipyard. This 69-footer, naturally designed by Germán Frers, is intended to be ...

Superstitions: Albatross and Backstay Published on December 21st, 2022 Never Say P*G – The Book of Sailors’ Superstitions is the nautical reference book you never knew you needed.

"At one point, I was holding onto the backstay on the boat, it's metal, and I got (expletive) zapped. It must have been electricity from a strike on the water close to the boat.