Learn from sailing experts, basic sailing how tos, sailing tips, sailboat racing techniques, racing rules, sailing advice and more at Sailing World. Be it mistakes, or just bad luck, adversity in ...

One of the coolest uses of a centerboard I’ve ever seen was at the Smythe Laser Championship ... drag while keeping the boat tracking, especially if we’re not sailing dead downwind.

Here’s everything you need to know about sails, learning to sail, boat costs, and different types of sailboats. Though there are a few primary categories of sailboats, the differences between the ...

The races, held on Sunday, November 3, at Tenby Sailing Club, saw Roberts take the lead in a Laser Radial. He was followed by Peter and Igor in a Scorpion 1995, and then Julian and Howard in Redwing ...

Charles Warlow has circumnavigated the UK twice, round Ireland and to the Faroes. He shares his advice for sailors planning ...

On choppy water under sunny skies, the last day of competition in the Olympic one-person dinghy (men's Laser, women's Laser Radial) events provided plenty of drama. In the men's event, Australia’s ...

Technologies once reserved for Grand-Prix are permeating every level of the sport, giving sailors the ability to adopt elite ...

As you can imagine, there’s a lot of variety in boat weights. There are several factors to consider, such as the boat’s size, materials, and purpose. For example, sailboats tend to be lighter than ...

A miniature boat from the US that washed up on English shores is ready to set sail again. The little vessel, called Inspiration, travelled about 9,000 miles (14,484 km) before arriving battered ...

Humans have been sailing various seas and oceans for thousands of years, and using boats for potentially even longer than that. But as a species we wouldn’t have made it very far if it was only ...

If uncrewed sailing vessels float your boat, you might also enjoy this autonomous solar powered tugboat, or that time a submarine ran out of fuel and sailed home on bed sheets.