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THE French are different from us. After years of covering offshore sailing, particularly the shorthanded scene, that's always been my take. What event could possibly be more French than the [...]

EARLY ON IN MY offshore sailing career, I discovered something that has been driven home repeatedly in the ensuing years: At sea, many miles and days from the solid comforts [...]

IT was just after 0200 on a wild and woolly August morning, just north of Block Island on the rather thrashed waters of Rhode Island Sound. On the 58-foot catamaran [...]

Ronnie Simpson--brimmed hat backward, eyes forward, a light touch on the tiller extension of his borrowed Open 50 Sparrow--is in his element. It's a radiant September day with a pumping [...]

IT WAS THE OPENING DAY of racing last February in the sixth annual Caribbean Multihull Challenge and Rally on the island of St. Maarten, and I was in the thick [...]

IT WAS A SENSATIONAL DAY FOR SAILING, WITH A solid southwesterly breeze pumping over the aft quarter of our 42-footer, just ideal for a downwind romp under a spinnaker. I [...]

Reid Stowe sailed nonstop for three years without touching land. Next stop, Mars? The record-setting long-distance sailor Reid Stowe, a self-described 'shaman mystic' who once roamed the planet under sail [...]

The Golden Globe Race winner had full intentions of winning the latest edition of the adventure seeker's ultimate round-the-world race. So, it should come as no surprise that the South [...]

IT WAS A BREEZY fall afternoon on Chesapeake Bay, a perfect day for a sail, and I felt fortunate to have been invited out for a spin on Gary Jobson's [...]

ON THE BLACKTOP of a boatyard adjacent to the bustling harbor of Anacortes, Washington, a warhorse of a 1970s-era racing yacht is stripped down and propped up, and is clearly [...]

After a fortnight underway and with 500 rugged nautical miles in our wake, in late June, our Cal 40, Dancing Bear, nudged up to the dock in the little British [...]

ON a dark St. Patrick's Day morning--some 15 miles from the Lorient, France, finish line for the Globe40 doublehanded round-the-world race--Joe Harris sat down at the bumpy navigation station of [...]

THIS second Thursday in January is a perfect Florida winter morning, the sort of weather the local chamber of commerce dials up regularly--a light easterly breeze barely ruffling the shallow, [...]

Forty years ago this past September, in the waters of Rhode Island Sound just off the coastal city of Newport, a crew of Aussies shocked the sailing world. The 12 [...]

YOU NEVER FORGET your best day of sailing. Mine came in the waning miles of the 2005 Transpac Race from Los Angeles to Honolulu, screeching down the Molokai Channel under [...]

BACK IN THE DAY, when I first started covering round-the-world races like the Volvo Ocean Race and the Vendee Globe for yachting magazines and newspapers, the most engrossing stories came [...]

THE SOUTHWESTERLY breeze had filled in nicely, and perhaps with a tad more punch than I would've hoped for; in my slip off Buttonwood Cove on Florida's Gulf Coast isle [...]

Back in the day, when I captained my college football team (cue up Springsteen's 'Glory Days'), I always felt a little nervous during the ritual of pulling on the pads, [...]

This article explores the decline of American production sailboat manufacturing and focuses on Tartan Yachts as an exception to this trend. It highlights the role of Tim Jackett, a long-time employee of Tartan Yachts, in the company's continued success. The article provides background information on Jackett's upbringing and early experiences with sailing and boatbuilding. It also discusses his career at Tartan Yachts, emphasizing his passion for boatbuilding and his contributions to the industry. The article offers insights into the history and current operations of Tartan Yachts, a boatbuilding company based in Painesville, Ohio, and showcases Jackett's personal journey as a designer. [Extracted from the article]

The article provides an overview of the annual Boat of the Year competition held on Chesapeake Bay. The Jeanneau Yachts 55 was named the overall winner, praised for its innovative design and unique interior layout. The competition featured boats from 10 different nations, highlighting the influence of imported boats on the American market. The article also discusses the winners in various categories, including performance cruisers, cruising catamarans, and trimarans. Special recognition was given to the Xquisite 30 Sportcat, Astus 20.5 Sport, and HH44 for their impressive designs and features. The article includes a table comparing different boat models based on various specifications and provides links to their respective websites. [Extracted from the article]

ONE BY ONE, THE FLEET of a dozen multihulls--11 performance-cruising catamarans and a sole French trimaran--retrieved their anchors and hoisted their mainsails, each with a deep reef in the main. [...]

Thomas Tangvald's attachment to the sea was magnetic. It may ultimately have been his undoing. The voyage was a ludicrous proposition from the outset, and, in retrospect, there was only [...]

Ronnie Simpson is hoping to compete in the marquee around-the-world Vendee Globe race. We wouldn't bet against him. IF HOLLYWOOD MADE A MOVIE about Ronnie Simpson's life--and some director with [...]

After nearly a half-century of racing to Bermuda, one sailor can still look back at the experience that would define his connection with the sea and the East Coast offshore [...]

I'VE SAILED MY FAIR SHARE of ocean races over the years, but the most unusual of all was the 2016 running of the Conch Republic Cup, a three-legged affair that [...]

Even in the best of times, it's a short sailing season in New England waters. This year, for me, because of work and travel commitments, it was especially abbreviated. Early [...]

IN the winter months of December through April, the high season of Caribbean bareboat chartering, the Sir Francis Drake Channel that courses through the cruising paradise known as the British [...]

THERE'S A REVOLUTION UNDERWAY in the sport of sailing, and it can be summed up in one simple word: foiling. [paragraph] More specifically, we're talking about hydrofoils, the winglike appendages [...]

Matt rutherford, the skipper of the 65-foot steel cutter Marie Tharp, had a problem. Bound for Greenland from Chesapeake Bay last June for another summer of high-latitude scientific research--seafloor mapping [...]

IN almost every hotbed of sailing that I'm aware of, summer weeknights are reserved for semi-serious sailboat racing that almost universally is conducted under the same banner: the beer-can series. [...]

IF YOU WERE A BABY BOOMER KID who grew up in the sailing-crazed town of Newport, Rhode Island, as I did, there was no way you didn't have at least [...]

The defining moment of any passage for an offshore sailor is landfall: when the destination island or port finally looms upon the horizon. But when we set off from the [...]

¶ Fellow judge Mark Pillsbury explains what put the boat over the top: "During sea trials, we're usually accompanied by builders or dealers who tell us what a boat's intended to do. BEST CRUISING MULTIHULL The popularity of boats with more than one hull is more evident with each passing year in charter fleets, on boat-show docks, and in far-flung anchorages the world over. WINNER J/BOATS J/45 The Johnstone family business has certainly evolved in the 45 years since the company launched with the J/24, but the common denominator in the boats it has built since then is pretty straightforward: They're all terrific sailing craft. LYMAN-MORSE BOAT BUILDING INC. Lyman-Morse LM46 Our Domestic Boat of the Year is a showstopper on multiple levels, a boat built by the midcoast Maine company that produced the beautiful Seguin line back in the day, of which the LM46 is a worthy successor. [Extracted from the article]

Prior to the voyage, Cal and his dad, James, completed an invaluable shakedown sail from Noank, Connecticut, to Buzzards Bay, where Cal notched his first overnighter (top). FEATURES This past summer, at age 16 and with his sophomore year of high school just a few weeks behind him, Cal Currier knocked off a solo west-to-east crossing of the Atlantic Ocean - and in doing so may well have become the youngest sailor ever to accomplish the feat. Before setting out, James and Cal guessed that Cal might average about 90 nautical miles a day, for a roughly 36-day crossing. In fact, Cal's voyage was, if nothing else, a total Currier family affair; after all, Cal's father and grandfather were transatlantic veterans who knew more than a thing or two about what he was getting himself into. [Extracted from the article]

FEATURES We were tucked in behind the reef to windward of our anchorage in the Grenadines' tiny isle of Petit St. Vincent aboard my old friend John Kretschmer's Kaufman 47, Quetzal, and it had been a wild night indeed. Kretschmer is a master, and had some wild COVID-era tales to spin about his recent travels; Synnott was equally entertaining. While Mark is tough as nails and really smart, he needs more sailing experience and certainly more navigation experience, especially high-latitude stuff. Synnott jumped back in, and Kretschmer instructed Nathan Zahrt, at the wheel, to put it in gear and throttle up: 1 knot, 2 knots, 3. [Extracted from the article]

The latest in native Californian Stan Honey's numbingly long list of accomplishments is what earned him the 2010 Rolex Yachtsman of the Year Award: navigating the 105-foot trimaran Groupama 3 [...]

IT'S A SULTRY SUMMER WEEKNIGHT ON THE placid, up-market waters off Oyster Bay, N.Y.--look, there's Billy Joel's mansion!--and Dawn Riley's whistle is getting a workout: 'Tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweeeeeeeeeeeet.' [...]

THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO PUT IT: MARGARET GRYZELKO looked hot. Trim and blonde, wearing a light summer sundress, she'd left her everyday life as a mom back in Miami [...]