Recently I raced the American YC Spring Series on a Swan 42 with some childhood friends. This regatta was a three-day event, with a coastal race and windward-leeward races. There were 46 boats of a ...

A sailboat moves with almost no sound. No engine noise, no splashing wake—just the creak of rigging, the slap of water against the hull, and the force of the wind driving thousands of pounds of boat ...

The phone rings with an incoming WhatsApp call from Stuart Bannatyne. I’m at my desk at Google, so I jog to a conference room to have a private conversation. Bannatyne, from Doyle Sails, is a legend ...

“Ready to tack?” a voice shouts. Before I can ask what that means, the sails flicker and the entire boat suddenly tilts sideways. Dishes and bowls of fruit crash against each other inside the cabin. I ...

At the end of each April, the Annapolis Spring Sailboat Show is a weekend outing spent ogling boats along City Dock that cost nearly as much as a house, if not more, and dreaming about sailing around ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Lane Taylor writes about real estate, travel, and entrepreneurs The nausea hits me imperceptibly at first—less like the ...