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This year's Caribbean Multihull Challenge added several new components, continuing the evolution of this event that has turned multihull racing (and rallying) into something everyone can enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sailing in light air can be challenging, and too often sailors reach for the engine start button instead of exploring how to make the most of these conditions. SAIL Technical Editor Adam Cove walks us through the mindset, tools, and techniques to improve your skills to make light air sailing more rewarding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Twenty-three feet of the jibboom were gone, snapped off like a tree limb." A week as crew aboard the Pride of Baltimore II fulfills a lifelong dream for one sailor, but are boat-breaking conditions more adventure than he bargained for? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're all about learning heavy weather sailing skills, and our social media feeds are full of dramatic big-air waves and wind. But SAIL Editor-in-Chief Wendy Mitman Clarke makes the case that light air sailing is some of the most challenging—and rewarding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SAIL Managing Editor Lydia Mullan went looking for adventure in her first offshore race. In this summer's Annapolis to Newport Race, she got all of that and then some. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’ve heard it all: Boats are expensive to buy and worse to maintain, cruisers are all geezers, and learning to sail is hard…Tim Coles wants to bust those myths and get more young people like himself out there living the dream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's almost something spiritual about maneuvering our boats under sail, but there's a lot that's practical about it too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With a record-setting win and stories of redemption, triumph, and heartbreak, five intrepid sailors carry the Golden Globe Race’s torch forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The redress results are in, and 11th Hour Racing Team has come out victorious in the round-the-world race’s first ever IMOCA 60 class. In the race’s 50-year history, they are the first American team to win the event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adventure sailing alone was her joy. So what would it be like sailing two months on the East Coast with her teenaged son? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Race to Alaska is cold, wet, and slightly crazy. For one team, it took a weird mix of Vegemite, skill, luck, and Buddha to make it all the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nearly 130 years ago, the 191-foot schooner barge Ironton collided with the freighter Ohio in a section of Lake Huron known as Shipwreck Alley. The accident sank both ships and killed five of the Ironton’s seven crew. Now, she rises like a ghost from the past, as researchers have found Ironton pristinely intact on the seafloor of the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Learn more about your ad...

In calm waters within sight of land, the captain went overboard, and no else on board had a clue what to do. Read by Wendy Mitman Clarke Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the 2024 Summer Olympics right around the corner, SAIL Managing Editor Lydia Mullan takes a look at the Nacra 17 and two sailors who are vying to represent the U.S. in this multihull class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Starlit nights and trade wind sailing joined torn sails and boisterous seas on an 18-day Pacific passage for this cruising couple. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill Pinkney, who died unexpectedly last week at 87 years old, was lauded as the first Black sailor to circumnavigate solo via the five great capes. But to categorize him—as a Black sailor, an adventurer, a ground-breaker—is to circumscribe someone who consistently defied such narrow definition. In 2021, SAIL Editor-in-Chief Wendy Mitman Clarke had a chance to talk with him about his extraordinary...

Alone in a sweet little 17-foot yawl he built himself, Steve Earley finds home in the waters less traveled. He's endured storms, cold, heat, and calms, and after thousands of solo miles, he's still just getting started. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 73-foot maxi yacht Windward Passage is the stuff of yacht racing legend—built of wood beside a Bahamanian harbor, she sailed all over the world breaking racing records everywhere. While celebrating a remarkable boat, this beautiful book is also about the people who have sailed her, loved her, and cared for her through the decades and over the countless ocean miles. Learn more about your ad cho...

Simon Fisher, The Ocean Race veteran and navigator for the winning 11th Hour Racing Team, has been awarded the Magnus Olsson Prize for his contributions to and impact on the sport of sailing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices