Every so often I get on a boat that has rig-tune “issues” and sometimes the more we try to tune the rig straight, the worse it gets. When this happens I find it useful to step back and focus on five ...

A few years ago, I was helping a friend find a good boat for beer can racing on Lake Erie. His criteria were simple—a relatively big cockpit, easy to sail but challenging to set up well, and priced so ...

Conservative voters are stranded at sea without a captain. The ship of the ruling conservative party was wrecked by the powerful scandal involving President Park Geun-hye and her inner circle. Apart ...

Ellen MacArthur was getting her solo round-the-world record bid back on track after scaling the mast to make repairs off the coast of Brazil. MacArthur climbed the 30m spar on her B&Q trimaran twice ...

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