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When they couldn't find a performance catamaran for a price they could live with, longtime cruising sailors and YouTubers Matt and Jessica Johnson decided to build their own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SAIL Technical Editor Adam Cove took on a massive challenge competing in the Race to Alaska solo in an 18-foot catboat. Read or listen to his story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Want to live on the edge? Try running the bow of a 140-foot classic schooner for the first time at one of the world's showiest regattas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When he set out to restore an S&S Swan 37, 29-year-old Max Campbell had one plan in mind: to invite as many people as possible with him sailing across oceans. He has succeeded, and then some. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Managing Editor Lydia Mullan tags along as an odyssey begins in the Mediterranean aboard a new Pegasus 50. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Among many sailors, Maine is known as one of the East Coast's most stunning cruising grounds. But with a rich, deep history in shorthanded sailing, it's also the home-grown epicenter of American single-handed around-the-world ocean racing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Learning on the job as a first made aboard a sailing cargo ship in remote Pacific islands was adventure enough. Then came Covid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What’s it like to sail in Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Huron and snorkel on the wrecks that make it famous? SAIL Editor-in-Chief Wendy Mitman Clarke went to find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Geoff Holt was 18 years old when a swimming accident made him quadriplegic. But that terrible event has spurred a lifetime of record-setting sailing and inspired him to create an organization that is bringing boating and sailing to people with all manner of disabilities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The sailors who were involved in the rescue of the crew of the J/122 Alliance, which sank in the Gulf Stream during this year's Newport Bermuda Race, discuss safety lessons learned, large and small. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Starlink is becoming ubiquitous on sailboats, and the technology has now breached perhaps the world’s last internet-free domain—the open sea—for better and, a few say, for worse. All agree on one thing: With Starlink, there is no going back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Managing Editor Lydia Mullan shares her harrowing first person account of J/122 Alliance's sinking during this year's Newport Bermuda Race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne Goussev has led teams in the Race to Alaska three times, winning the notoriously difficult race twice. Now, the founder of Sail Like A Girl is fighting a new battle against MS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

They'd weathered severe storms in this anchorage before, so they thought all was well when they dropped the hook in the same place. Then the world started tilting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the 37th America's Cup right around the corner, take a look into what new things you can expect from this year's evolution of the 173-year-old trophy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One couple’s determination to build a life together on the water brought them from boat hitchhiking to running a pioneering new Fountaine Pajot Smart Electric. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An idyllic pause in paradise has Lydia Mullan considering what we value most about being out on the water. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SAIL Editor-in-Chief Wendy Mitman Clarke has spent the spring and summer racing a Herreshoff 12 1/2 and can attest to the truth that after 110 years on the water, this is still one of the sweetest sailers out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Erskine Childers may be best known to sailors as the author of the classic Riddle of the Sands. But as SAIL Cruising Editor Charles Doane recounts, he was also a gun runner for Irish independence on his 44-foot, Colin Archer-designed ketch and a cruising sailor with an intense sense of purpose. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The legendary Robin Lee Graham is doing a very different kind of sailing now than he was during his days aboard Dove. Emma Garschagen caught up with him in the mountains of Montana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shorthanded sailing has everything to do with preparation, thinking ahead, and practice. SAIL Technical Editor Adam Cove explains that on his boat, another key factor is keeping it simple. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Harken, who co-founded Harken Inc., with his brother, Olaf, talks with SAIL Editor-in-Chief Wendy Mitman Clarke about growing up during wartime, organically developing a business one step at a time, the stupidest sailing there is, what kind of boats he’d sail if he were just starting out today, and the importance of fun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Offshore sailing, and especially the niche of solo ocean racing, has never caught the attention of Americans or the U.S. media in the same way an event like the America's Cup once did—and even that was a generation ago. Twenty-nine-year-old Cole Brauer just changed all of that, and SAIL Managing Editor Lydia Mullan has been in a unique position to see how it happened and to ask what it means. Lear...

Falling in love with an older boat is an affliction many of us have experienced. SAIL Editor-in-Chief Wendy Mitman Clarke is here to say, it's OK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Boats and Their People is a new feature in SAIL to celebrate the special bond we have with some great older boats. In this first installment, meet John Stone and his Cape Dory 36, whose restoration helped heal him after he served in the war in Iraq and since has taken him on thousands of bluewater miles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices