I ask because our tactician is having a noticeably hard time figuring out what to do. “Uh … no,” our tactician responds. “OK,” I say. “Let’s tack, then we can sort it out.” It’s not that he is doing ...

Tacking, gybing, heaving to, coming about and more. "Tacking is when you're going into the wind, and gybing is when you're going away from the wind," says Mary. "The worst thing about sailing, I think ...

Between appearances at America’s Cup World Series events — the next is Toulon, France, in September — it’s been all business for the Cup teams training in Bermuda and at their bases elsewhere. While ...

TEMPE, Ariz. — On a breezy spring day, high school sophomore Maddie Cordova is doing everything she can to make sure the wind doesn’t tip over her one-person sailboat. She’s racing another student and ...

The Courant Institute's Christiana Mavroyiakoumou, above at Central Park's Conservatory Water, and the University of Michigan's Silas Alben studied how sails behave during a wide range of tacking ...

Women's and co-ed sailing were highly successful this past weekend as both teams picked up strong results in regattas that could set the tone for this fall season. “We are extremely happy with our ...