Sailboat Racing

Ched Proctor

The Ways of Ched Proctor

With nearly a half-century of small-boat one-design racing and sailmaking in his wake, Ched Proctor is set in his ways, and his ways are fast.

Stars+Stripes

Team Stars+Stripes Strike Gold in Bermuda

Skipper Taylor Canfield and Team Stars+Stripes – Mike Buckley, Victor Diaz de Leon, Mike Menninger and Eric Shampain – won the 70th Bermuda Gold Cup and 2020 Open Match Racing World Championship with a penalty-marred victory over Ian Williams’s Team GAC Pindar.

Alex Thomson

Thomson’s Time Has Come

The Vendée Globe’s British superstar, Alex Thomson, will face himself and his past when setting off again on the greatest ocean race. Could this be his last shot at singlehanded glory?

Pauline Courtois

Bermuda Gold Cup Goes Coed

Racing at the Bermuda Gold Cup begins Monday, Oct. 26, with the first set of flights scheduled for 0930, and among the entries are two top-ranked female skippers.

AC75 Britannia

INEOS Team UK Banks on the Bustle

INEOS TEAM UK has officially christened their America’s Cup race boat ‘Britannia’ from the team’s base in Auckland, New Zealand, three months before the start of racing for the 36th America’s Cup.

Boats close to the finish

Shoot to the Finish

Momentum is a powerful force—a force you can tap to get across the finish line sooner. From Sailing World, April 1997

Don Wilson’s M32

M32 Midtown Cup

This weekend’s Midtown Cup Series event will undoubtedly linger in competitors’ minds as they prepare for the Midtown Cup’s final event in October.

Shea and Roble

Detours To Tokyo

American 49erFX sailors Stephanie Roble and Maggie Shea negotiate the pandemic-induced changes of their Olympic campaign.

Britannia

Weighing In On The AC75

Overall weight, crew weight, sail weights, centers of mass…it doesn’t matter what it is, if it’s going sailboat racing, weight matters. A lot. So, it’s no surprise to find that the rules controlling the new America’s Cup class, the AC75, have plenty to say about weight.

Ched Proctor

The Ways of Ched Proctor

With nearly a half-century of small-boat one-design racing and sailmaking in his wake, Ched Proctor is set in his ways, and his ways are fast.

Stars+Stripes

Team Stars+Stripes Strike Gold in Bermuda

Skipper Taylor Canfield and Team Stars+Stripes – Mike Buckley, Victor Diaz de Leon, Mike Menninger and Eric Shampain – won the 70th Bermuda Gold Cup and 2020 Open Match Racing World Championship with a penalty-marred victory over Ian Williams’s Team GAC Pindar.

Alex Thomson

Thomson’s Time Has Come

The Vendée Globe’s British superstar, Alex Thomson, will face himself and his past when setting off again on the greatest ocean race. Could this be his last shot at singlehanded glory?

Pauline Courtois

Bermuda Gold Cup Goes Coed

Racing at the Bermuda Gold Cup begins Monday, Oct. 26, with the first set of flights scheduled for 0930, and among the entries are two top-ranked female skippers.

AC75 Britannia

INEOS Team UK Banks on the Bustle

INEOS TEAM UK has officially christened their America’s Cup race boat ‘Britannia’ from the team’s base in Auckland, New Zealand, three months before the start of racing for the 36th America’s Cup.

Boats close to the finish

Shoot to the Finish

Momentum is a powerful force—a force you can tap to get across the finish line sooner. From Sailing World, April 1997

Don Wilson’s M32

M32 Midtown Cup

This weekend’s Midtown Cup Series event will undoubtedly linger in competitors’ minds as they prepare for the Midtown Cup’s final event in October.

Shea and Roble

Detours To Tokyo

American 49erFX sailors Stephanie Roble and Maggie Shea negotiate the pandemic-induced changes of their Olympic campaign.

Britannia

Weighing In On The AC75

Overall weight, crew weight, sail weights, centers of mass…it doesn’t matter what it is, if it’s going sailboat racing, weight matters. A lot. So, it’s no surprise to find that the rules controlling the new America’s Cup class, the AC75, have plenty to say about weight.

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