Humans have been sailing various seas and oceans for thousands of years, and using boats for potentially even longer than that. But as a species we wouldn’t have made it very far if it was only ...

On a windy day, especially as you fight your way off the starting line in close quarters, you can hear the calls from the talking heads of your nearest competitors: “Puff in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .

The best way to recognize an approaching windshift during the closing minutes of a prestart is to observe other boats upwind on the course, but if you’re the only class on the racecourse, or the first ...

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 ...

Katie James grew up on the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, the estuary along the shore of Maryland and Virginia. The last thing she envisioned when she founded Peaks & Tides, a sailing school based on ...