With the full fleet in attendance, SailGP tried a new split-fleet format with the Spaniards of Los Gallos finally denying the season leaders another win.

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 ...

On a cool late-October morning in Annapolis, Maryland, Sailing World’s Boat of the Year judges stepped on board the gleaming red HH44 built by the Hudson Yacht Group in China. With them for the test ...

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The schooner yacht America was a child star and a technological marvel. Arguably the most famous yacht ever built, she won the ­silver cup in August 1851, and now she represents the pinnacle of yacht ...

The Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England, hadn’t experienced a summer invasion of this scale or caliber in more than two decades. The arrival of 30 grand-prix race yachts, and the onslaught ...

“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 ...

If you recall those brazen, arrogant bumper stickers from the early 2000s that sparked an outrage at the dawn of kite­surfing, then you’ll know what I’m talking about. That time Matt Nuzzo and Trip ...

And just like that, J/29 class racing has been reignited on the Chesapeake Bay. It’s been ages since these late-1980s vintage one-designs have met en masse, but at this year’s Helly Hansen Sailing ...

Laser sailing will commence at 13:00 local time on Monday 8 August at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games but what’s the history of the one-person dinghy, where does its roots lie? Well we’ve done all the hard ...