When they couldn't find a performance catamaran for a price they could live with, longtime cruising sailors and YouTubers Matt and Jessica Johnson decided to build their own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
SAIL Technical Editor Adam Cove took on a massive challenge competing in the Race to Alaska solo in an 18-foot catboat. Read or listen to his story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Want to live on the edge? Try running the bow of a 140-foot classic schooner for the first time at one of the world's showiest regattas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When he set out to restore an S&S Swan 37, 29-year-old Max Campbell had one plan in mind: to invite as many people as possible with him sailing across oceans. He has succeeded, and then some. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Managing Editor Lydia Mullan tags along as an odyssey begins in the Mediterranean aboard a new Pegasus 50. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Among many sailors, Maine is known as one of the East Coast's most stunning cruising grounds. But with a rich, deep history in shorthanded sailing, it's also the home-grown epicenter of American single-handed around-the-world ocean racing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Learning on the job as a first made aboard a sailing cargo ship in remote Pacific islands was adventure enough. Then came Covid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What’s it like to sail in Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Huron and snorkel on the wrecks that make it famous? SAIL Editor-in-Chief Wendy Mitman Clarke went to find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Geoff Holt was 18 years old when a swimming accident made him quadriplegic. But that terrible event has spurred a lifetime of record-setting sailing and inspired him to create an organization that is bringing boating and sailing to people with all manner of disabilities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The sailors who were involved in the rescue of the crew of the J/122 Alliance, which sank in the Gulf Stream during this year's Newport Bermuda Race, discuss safety lessons learned, large and small. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Starlink is becoming ubiquitous on sailboats, and the technology has now breached perhaps the world’s last internet-free domain—the open sea—for better and, a few say, for worse. All agree on one thing: With Starlink, there is no going back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Managing Editor Lydia Mullan shares her harrowing first person account of J/122 Alliance's sinking during this year's Newport Bermuda Race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jeanne Goussev has led teams in the Race to Alaska three times, winning the notoriously difficult race twice. Now, the founder of Sail Like A Girl is fighting a new battle against MS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
They'd weathered severe storms in this anchorage before, so they thought all was well when they dropped the hook in the same place. Then the world started tilting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
With the 37th America's Cup right around the corner, take a look into what new things you can expect from this year's evolution of the 173-year-old trophy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
One couple’s determination to build a life together on the water brought them from boat hitchhiking to running a pioneering new Fountaine Pajot Smart Electric. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
An idyllic pause in paradise has Lydia Mullan considering what we value most about being out on the water. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
SAIL Editor-in-Chief Wendy Mitman Clarke has spent the spring and summer racing a Herreshoff 12 1/2 and can attest to the truth that after 110 years on the water, this is still one of the sweetest sailers out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Erskine Childers may be best known to sailors as the author of the classic Riddle of the Sands. But as SAIL Cruising Editor Charles Doane recounts, he was also a gun runner for Irish independence on his 44-foot, Colin Archer-designed ketch and a cruising sailor with an intense sense of purpose. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The legendary Robin Lee Graham is doing a very different kind of sailing now than he was during his days aboard Dove. Emma Garschagen caught up with him in the mountains of Montana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Shorthanded sailing has everything to do with preparation, thinking ahead, and practice. SAIL Technical Editor Adam Cove explains that on his boat, another key factor is keeping it simple. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Peter Harken, who co-founded Harken Inc., with his brother, Olaf, talks with SAIL Editor-in-Chief Wendy Mitman Clarke about growing up during wartime, organically developing a business one step at a time, the stupidest sailing there is, what kind of boats he’d sail if he were just starting out today, and the importance of fun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Offshore sailing, and especially the niche of solo ocean racing, has never caught the attention of Americans or the U.S. media in the same way an event like the America's Cup once did—and even that was a generation ago. Twenty-nine-year-old Cole Brauer just changed all of that, and SAIL Managing Editor Lydia Mullan has been in a unique position to see how it happened and to ask what it means. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Falling in love with an older boat is an affliction many of us have experienced. SAIL Editor-in-Chief Wendy Mitman Clarke is here to say, it's OK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Boats and Their People is a new feature in SAIL to celebrate the special bond we have with some great older boats. In this first installment, meet John Stone and his Cape Dory 36, whose restoration helped heal him after he served in the war in Iraq and since has taken him on thousands of bluewater miles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This year's Caribbean Multihull Challenge added several new components, continuing the evolution of this event that has turned multihull racing (and rallying) into something everyone can enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sailing in light air can be challenging, and too often sailors reach for the engine start button instead of exploring how to make the most of these conditions. SAIL Technical Editor Adam Cove walks us through the mindset, tools, and techniques to improve your skills to make light air sailing more rewarding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Twenty-three feet of the jibboom were gone, snapped off like a tree limb." A week as crew aboard the Pride of Baltimore II fulfills a lifelong dream for one sailor, but are boat-breaking conditions more adventure than he bargained for? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We're all about learning heavy weather sailing skills, and our social media feeds are full of dramatic big-air waves and wind. But SAIL Editor-in-Chief Wendy Mitman Clarke makes the case that light air sailing is some of the most challenging—and rewarding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
SAIL Managing Editor Lydia Mullan went looking for adventure in her first offshore race. In this summer's Annapolis to Newport Race, she got all of that and then some. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
