Sailing is nerdier than you think. You rarely have the wind at your back. The sails act as airfoils as the wind passes over them at certain angles. As the sail opens, lift is created. That lift drags ...

As the new watch captain emerges on deck, his counterpart begins his hand-off with a report on the competition, “We’ve dropped them back 5 degrees in the last hour, plus the range has doubled, so ...

We first looked at Velocitek’s Prism compass in 2019 and found a lot to like: big, easy-to-read numbers, cut-acrylic lenses that allow the numbers to be easily seen in any daylight situation and not ...

Born 60 years ago in the Netherlands and raised by one of the most notable sailors of all time, this storied racing queen has once again found her home port in the Great Lakes. Come aboard Althea with ...