_At the 1979 IYRU Meeting, then-International Yacht Racing Union (the predecessor to ISAF) Vice President Paul Henderson submitted a radical proposal (see sidebar) to eliminate pumping, ooching, ...

The new trend aboard performance boats is to use body energy to impart kinetic energy to the boat so as to propel the boat favorably. Each generation has refined and expanded the techniques to the ...

Ryan Brelage along with Evelyn Hannah practice roll tacking on a Flying Junior (FJ) dinghy during the N.C. State sailing team practice at Lake Crabtree in Morrisville, N.C., Friday, Sept. 6, 2024.

As the students started their practice on Fern Ridge Reservoir, they first practiced tacking in their two-person sailboats. Tacking is a technique for sailing into the wind that involves sailing at an ...

Two members of the St. Petersburg Yacht Club Junior Sailing Team, Cleve Hancock, left, and Zack Marks, practice roll tacking Tuesday in 14-foot Lasers at the South Yacht Basin in St. Petersburg. The ...