How do you top a design that reigned for nearly a decade and launched 500 hulls? That was Beneteau’s quandary as they contemplated building a successor to the Oceanis 51.1 that initially splashed in ...

Just six years after Maiden captivated the sailing world by becoming the first all-female team to compete in the Whitbread Round the World Race, team Mighty Mary was assembled to do the same in the ...

This past weekend, Chicago’s Burnham Park Harbor saw the 34th edition of the Independence Cup. This regatta is America’s longest running regatta for adapted sailors with functional impairments, ...

It was a gray and cold April morning in 2006 when Tim Fallon launched his 28-foot catboat Kathleen. Fallon, a software engineer from Wareham, Massachusetts, was worried about how she would sail. Were ...

You’re surfing the Facebook Marketplace boat classifieds, and one ad catches your attention: “Sunfish Sailboat for sale. 1985 AMF/Alcort in great condition with all the parts ready to sail. No trailer ...

This past weekend at the Mubadala New York Sail Grand Prix, the U.S. SailGP showed that consistency and momentum have been game changers in their 2026 season. The team now sits in third place overall ...

Carbon fiber dust drifts through the air as the high-pitched whine of a grinder cuts through the shop. Through respirators, muffled French voices are just barely audible throughout JPS Production in ...

American sailor Paul Cayard has been named the 2026 recipient of the Magnus Olsson Prize for excellence, sportsmanship, and innovation in sailing. “I was fortunate enough to meet Magnus and to race ...

The sun had yet to set on the first day of racing, and Crazy Horse had already put 90 miles behind her. It was a downwind sled ride; she was blasting along at double-digit boat speeds with a red A3 ...

Note: This story is excerpted from SAIL Contributing Editor Christopher Birch’s upcoming book The Four Seasons of Boat Maintenance—a compendium of lessons learned during his 40-year career maintaining ...

Editor’s note—This is the second installment of a story that began in the March 2026 issue. Click here for part one. I’m dimly aware of the sunbeam as it traces across my belly. Back and forth. I’m ...

“To be honest, when I was young I didn’t really imagine that any of this could be possible,” Francesca Clapcich recalls with smile and just a hint of wistfulness. She’s fresh off of a second place ...