Abie McLaughlin, age 38, had a breakout year in 2024, achieving a hat trick of North American championship wins in the J/88, Tartan 10 and S2 7.9 classes. Having quickly earned a reputation as a ...

Ed Reynolds was way ahead of the whole “FAFO” thing that’s hip today. In fact, it was the find-out part that got him into the sailmaking business 50 years ago when he first walked through the door of ...

The seabreeze builds to 15 knots across Rhode Island Sound as Tom Rich watches his son-in-law stumble through a tack on his way to grinding in the jib. Thwack, thwack, thwack. The jib flogs in the ...

“Mechatronics engineer.” That’s one job title that never existed back in the America’s Cup’s 12-Metre era. But today, every Cup team has a few on payroll. These are the unknown wizards tasked with ...

Ted Turner is one of the most famous champion sailors in yachting history. He’s also noted for creating the Cable News Network, his role as a passionate environmentalist, and for being one of the ...

Six days of racing at the home of the L.A. 2028 Olympics closed for the ILCA 6, ILCA 7, and 470 classes last week, with Great Britain’s Hannah Snellgrove, Australia’s Matt Wearn, and Brits Martin ...

The 2027 edition of The Ocean Race—the storied round-the-world crewed raced that has previously been sailed as the Whitbread and the Volvo Ocean Race—announced its new route will take the fleet of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sailing World Magazine’s annual Boat of the Year tests are conducted in Annapolis, Maryland, following the US Sailboat Show. With independent judges exhaustively inspecting the boats on land and ...

Amongst the million-dollar budgets, high-tech equipment and world-class sailors, one thing is seemingly missing from every campaign in this America’s Cup 36 cycle: a training partner. The training ...

On a calm day, the ocean might seem like a gentle giant with a pulse that laps the shoreline, but veteran ocean racers know it vastness, and how unpredictable and unconquerable it is. Among these ...