Chris Alexander's stunning victory at the VX One North American Championship marks a historic moment for the class.

The first twilight race of the year is a special time. After thinking about sailing and racing all winter long, we finally get to go ­evening racing again. My wife, Libby, has a J/70 that she races on ...

Bob Kirby of Long Grove, IL, takes home the grand prize in Firecrown’s Ultimate Boating Giveaway: a half-million-dollar center console.

American sailors excelled at the Youth Sailing World Championships this past December in Mussanah, Oman. The impressive performances inspired me to revisit our Jobson Junior All-Star ­recognitions, ...

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 ...

In the April ’08 issue we covered how to use your boat’s polar data and target boatspeeds to get to the next mark more efficiently. This month we’ll look at applying the same concepts to an offshore ...

Tony Lush was in trouble—the deep, dangerous sort that you can get yourself into only when you race sailboats alone across vast oceans. It was late November 1982. Two weeks earlier, Lush had set sail ...

“Mechatronics engineer.” That’s one job title that never existed back in the America’s Cup’s 12-Metre era. But today, every Cup team has a few on payroll. These are the unknown wizards tasked with ...

The tidy Vakaros RaceSense platform is gaining wider usage across many one-design classes and is universally lauded by the sailors. As a race officer with the New York YC, I and many others, have been ...

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 ...

It’s early April on Miami’s Biscayne Bay, with an 18-knot easterly, gnarly chop and ribbons of sargassum seaweed—tough fare for racing any boat. We’re at the 2023 Don Q Snipe Regatta, heading uphill ...

I’d love to look around and enjoy the scenery, but I can’t take my eyes off the leeward bow that’s slicing through the Caribbean at 20 knots. I’d been advised earlier: The fine line between full-tilt ...