We were in a bad position off the start. The wind unexpectedly shifted in the wrong direction, and we were immediately at the back of the fleet. I could sense anger building in my head, and I was ...

For the second half of 2006, the Beneteau First 10R flew under the radar, competing in IRC and PHRF events on the East Coast. But as the new boat on the block, it was having a hard time getting ...

Doug Newhouse and his boat partner, Jeremy Wilmot, the 30-something Aussie-American pro sailor, won the J/70 World Championship title in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, this past September, in an effort ...

On the eve of the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup Match, the America’s Cup Media Center on the ground floor of Barcelona’s World Trade Center is relatively empty. Both challenger and defender alike ...

Three hours after the start of the Fort Lauderdale to Key West Race, Cole Brauer decides to switch up the game plan. “We can’t race the same way as everyone else because we don’t have a full crew,” ...

Victor Diaz de Leon often rides his road bike for a couple of hours before and after a day of racing. In the saddle, he doesn’t listen to music. Instead, he’s simulating racecourse scenarios: what was ...

Gary Jobson got off to a slow start in his local frostbite racing series, but quickly identifying and tackling his weaknesses ...

Emirates Team New Zealand officially relaunched AC75, Taihoro over the weekend in Auckland. The occasion marked the next big step forward in the team’s Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup campaign.

On a calm day, the ocean might seem like a gentle giant with a pulse that laps the shoreline, but veteran ocean racers know it vastness, and how unpredictable and unconquerable it is. Among these ...

It’s a cool fall day with a brisk sea breeze bending the seagrass on the low-lying peninsula that is the northernmost tip of Rhode Island’s Aquidneck Island. A lonely figure, clad in waders, moseys ...

Over the past three years, one father and his two 20-something daughters have consistently finished at the top of big fleets—on a ­doublehanded boat. You read that right: If two plus one is three, how ...

Randy Hecht got the call while racing at the International Knarr Championship, in Copenhagen, Denmark. The good news? His boat had made the 2,600-mile journey from San Francisco to Toronto in time for ...