Accurately calling puffs and shifts really separates good sailors from the best. Andrew Campbell is among the latter. A while back, I sailed with him in the Lipton Cup on a shifty San Diego day. The ...

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 ...

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Have you ever watched a sailboat lean into the wind and thought it looked almost choreographed? Canvas tight, hull slicing cleanly through blue, no noise, no rush, just rhythm. From shore, it feels ...

Imagine that you’re lifted and sailing toward a puff. You’re all good, but your luck runs out when you’re headed before you get to the puff. Now you have a dilemma. Should you tack off the header to ...

A team of researchers at the Ocean University of China has developed and tested a mobile lidar (light detection and ranging) station that can accurately measure wind speed and direction over large ...