“The real problem with women’s ­sailing is that all the boats we sail are made for men.” A guy recently said this to me after telling me how big a proponent he is of women in sailing. This wasn’t the ...

A boat that gets off the ­starting line in a good position and has good upwind speed is probably going to be near the top of the fleet at the first weather mark. That’s easy to say but challenging to ...

Katelyn Buse walked onto the beach out of thigh-deep water. When someone asked her how her sailing session went, she answered with a smile and a shiver, "It's cold." Andy Campbell, meanwhile, was all ...

A sailboat moves with almost no sound. No engine noise, no splashing wake—just the creak of rigging, the slap of water against the hull, and the force of the wind driving thousands of pounds of boat ...