Be careful removing your new sail from its box, especially if you are using a blade to cut open the box. Nicking any sail is a bad start to its life with you. A little nick in a big white spinnaker ...

College sailors are incredibly deft in short-course racing, but they lack the skills for a wider range of disciplines available to them after college, which makes me wonder whether college sailing ...

Take to the seas on a family sailing trip and you'll find adventure, education and exhilaration for all ages. Here's how to do it. When it comes to family holidays, catamarans are an excellent choice, ...

The nausea hits me imperceptibly at first—less like the proverbial “rogue wave” that you read about in sailing books, and more like an invisibly rising tide. But the symptoms are the same: the sweats, ...

When 84-year-old Alaskan Jo Ryman Scott (pictured) and her 86-year-old husband, Dick, joined a yacht in Greece recently, they had no previous sailing experience. But they were able to help out with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Cassidy Randall writes on adventure, travel, and the natural world. May 29, 2025, 12:15pm EDT Off the island of Raiatea in Tahiti, ...