Ted Turner is one of the most famous champion sailors in yachting history. He’s also noted for creating the Cable News Network, his role as a passionate environmentalist, and for being one of the ...

In 2005, the wealthy Australian yachtsman and businessman Bob Oatley commissioned Reichel/Pugh to design a 98-footer called Wild Oats XI with one clear intention in mind: Take names and kick butt on ...

It is true in life that timing is everything. As proof, in a recent off-season purge of old sailing equipment, I held in my hand my original metallic blue Tacktick compass that had been worked hard ...

The locals of the Detroit yacht racing scene know that Lake St. Clair can be feast or famine and on the second day of the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series hosted by Bayview YC, the sailors ...

Brothers Mike and Bob Kirkman and the crew of the J/120 Hot Ticket are used to pressure. In fact, they’re better under pressure, says Bob Kirkman, and today’s outcome in Detroit’s ultra-competitive ...

The final day of the 2025 Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series at Marblehead Race Week presented eager sailors with challenging conditions as morning rain showers gave way to lumpy seas and ...

After two days of morning light-air postponements that pushed races into the late afternoon on Friday and Saturday, the 2026 edition of the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series in St. Petersburg ...

There’s one moment from the 2023 Mini Transat Race that is seared into my memory. I was six days into the Atlantic, crossing alone on my 21-footer Terminal Leave. The trade winds were cranking and the ...

Boat of the Year testing for 2025 was conducted in February in St. Petersburg, Florida and Annapolis, Maryland, this year, allowing for a broader fleet of entries. The ClubSwan 28 earned overall Boat ...

The Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England, hadn’t experienced a summer invasion of this scale or caliber in more than two decades. The arrival of 30 grand-prix race yachts, and the onslaught ...

Here is a reason why Dragonfly owners are okay with waiting two years or more to get their hands on the new 36. Everyone that has tested it agrees: It’s a multihuller’s dream boat. “Exhilarating” is ...

We all know how critical sail shape is to performance and that the sheet controlling said airfoil is matched to the job, whether it’s a zero-stretch, minimum-diameter PBO sheet on a mini-maxi blade, ...