As the J/Boat team leader for Quantum Sails, I spend a lot of time racing with customers on current J/Boat models. Many of these boats have non-overlapping jibs with controls for sheeting the jib. The ...

Once, while coaching a team before the Rolex International Women’s Keelboat Championship, someone asked me about jib sail trim, so I hopped on board and sat to leeward to video their jib leech while ...

I HELD ON TIGHT. My job was to hang onto the rope leading to the jib, holding just tight enough so the smaller sail could catch the wind. Seemed easy enough, until I started to lose sensation in my ...

Competitive people are clever and will exploit any unintended loophole. This appears to have happened in offshore racing as ...

This is how Will Bradshaw, director of the Port Jefferson Yacht Club Sailing School, reassures parents who are starting a 6-year-old off in sailing class, in the smallest sailboats available: “I ...

NEWPORT, R.I. — “Good choice! You stole some wind,” the screen read on the race simulator at The Sailing Museum. “Woo-hoo!” hooted participant (and non-sailor) Paul Kelley of Marstons Mills, as he ...

The South Carolina Maritime Museum’s summer sailing camps have a lot to offer for kids as well as adults and parents. Paz Higgins has been participating in the sailing camp for six years. This is ...

My launchpad was the historic Coast Guard station, on Whiskey Island, where The Foundry (based in the Flats) runs a satellite sailing operation. It’s the ideal setup: a clubhouse on the water, inside ...