Discover the thrilling 2025 12 Metre Championship in Newport, showcasing timeless yacht racing as the fleet sails toward the 2026 World Championship.

The centerboarder to generations of recreational and racing sailors can now be enjoyed in a number of ways. The enduring Sunfish, created by Alexander Bryan and Cortland Heyinger back in the early ...

I’ve overstood the windward mark by a few boatlengths, and as I bear away, the windward runner blade lifts a foot or so off the ice, then slams down hard. Still, the little DN iceboat slings me ...

Explore Wilson Trophy team racing at West Kirby, where the pinnacle of sailing excellence meets the enchanting world of competitive team racing.

Imagine that you’re lifted and sailing toward a puff. You’re all good, but your luck runs out when you’re headed before you get to the puff. Now you have a dilemma. Should you tack off the header to ...

The final day of the 2025 Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series at Marblehead Race Week presented eager sailors with challenging conditions as morning rain showers gave way to lumpy seas and ...

With the BirdyFish Race resting its dolly on the sands of SkyBeach Resort, we watch as Tampa Bay glasses-off. With our Boat of the Year testing session on weather pause, we head to a beachside thatch ...

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 ...

What makes a legend? Start with one sheet of plywood. At the launch in 1963, there was, of course, no legend. The humble plywood that formed the hard-chine hull of Infidel, later to be known as ...

The Storm 18, which its creators categorized as a daysailer when entering this new US-built small craft into Sailing World’s 2026 Boat of the Year competition, is so much more. The design brief is for ...

The Royal Ocean Racing Club’s now-classic Caribbean 600, which starts and finishes in Antigua after snaking through nearly a dozen islands, once again provided perfect conditions. On start day in ...