
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.

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.

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.

Erika Reineke shares her tryout experience with 11th Hour Ocean Racing this summer + Harken’s Matt Schmidt shares his “Desk Drawer”.

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?

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.

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.

With international travel and training curtailed during the pandemic, Luke Muller, the US Sailing Team’s Finn sailor, was forced to take a different path.

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

American Magic headsail trimmer Dan Morris explains the experience of trimming the headsail on the AC75.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Erika Reineke shares her tryout experience with 11th Hour Ocean Racing this summer + Harken’s Matt Schmidt shares his “Desk Drawer”.

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?

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.

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.

With international travel and training curtailed during the pandemic, Luke Muller, the US Sailing Team’s Finn sailor, was forced to take a different path.

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

American Magic headsail trimmer Dan Morris explains the experience of trimming the headsail on the AC75.

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.

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

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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