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 ...

Lewis Beery, Tom Purcell, and Andy Rose, who sail out of Balboa YC in Newport Beach, Calif., asked Alan Andrews to design them a boat capable of performing well under three wildly different rules, ORR ...

While in pre-flight training at Naval Air Station Pensacola, I had a classmate with sailing expertise that he’d gained at the US Naval Academy. He was always happy to share his passion for sailing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Word has it that if you bottled the secret sauce of the Knarr, every class would buy some. But there are things that can’t be bottled, can’t be bought. Sailors always tell you, “It’s about the people.

The effort to modernize the C420, the workhorse of college sailing, has been years in the making, with the ultimate goal being a boat that’s lighter, stronger, and faster. LaserPerformance’s Z420, ...

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 ...

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 ...