SkipHers, a women’s sailing clinic, began at Balboa Yacht Club as a trial program in August 2019 just to see how the idea would float among members. “It was supposed to be for one month,” said ...
Sofia Niles, of St. Augustine, slid her gloved hands along the wheel of the “Far Niente,” looking right at home on the 44-foot boat. Rose Ann Points, president and owner St. Augustine Sailing and the ...
The event is attracting more female skippers than in previous years, and many own the boats. By David Schmidt The skippers competing in the annual Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race dream of winning a top ...
More than three decades since its pioneering, round-the-world voyage, the Maiden racing yacht is again sailing the high seas – and changing the lives of young women in the process. Skippered by ...
What has come to be known as America’s prestige in small-boat sailing is about to be challenged—first by Norway alone and then by all seven of the invading foreign yachts and skippers. Prestige in ...
It has long been referred to as “the most beautiful race in the world”—and as I watched night turn to day due west of Capo Vaticano, with the sun’s reflection on the Mediterranean sea’s horizon ...
The No. 14 women’s sailing team and No. 2 coed squad won their respective events at the MAISA regatta in Annapolis, Md. The Georgetown sailing teams traveled to Annapolis, Md., this past weekend to ...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) – Two Tampa Bay area women have returned to St. Petersburg after the trip of a lifetime on a sailboat that sent them up the east coast for nine months. Vanessa Goodrum and ...
Renee Fields finds her peace sailing 70 mph in a land yacht across a dry lake bed under the hot desert sun. The 58-year-old Reno woman, a U.S. veteran who speaks five languages and works as a forensic ...