Hypersail reimagines traditional winch systems by introducing an innovative solution: Winch by Wire. With it, the power generated by the crew’s muscular strength does not directly drive traditional ...

The Ambassador Cup, scheduled for late August in Detroit will bring the GL70s together to race along the cityfront. Detroit Charter Company. The story began on a cold, windy Detro ...

Sailboat racing’s future is inextricably linked to the flow of new sailors who walk through the doors of community sailing centers and yacht clubs. These establishments do the yeoman’s work to attract ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I remember Kevin Burnham (two-time 470 Olympic medalist) telling me that you want the mast to be smoothly curved, like a bird’s wing, where there are nice transitions between one part and the next. It ...

The launching of a new boat is always a special moment, especially for an America’s Cup team, because it’s a defining and major milestone in the campaign. Until the sequential revelations from ...

It is hard to believe that Gill’s OS2 offshore gear has been around for 25 years, but that’s the case, and they keep finding ways to improve it–including the newest offering, the Offshore Jacket and ...

Cuthbertson and Cassian designed and built 351 hulls of the C&C; 35 in the 1960s and 70s. The Mark I and Mark II series (pre-1975) are usually available in good shape for an average price of $30,000.

Non-spinnaker divisions in distance races and jib-and-main evening races represent a growing segment of sailing. Sailors enjoy the simplicity of jib-and-main racing because it doesn’t require a big ...