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 ...

Boating and sailing have a lot in common, especially in terms of earning your sea legs. But getting out on the water is much simpler with an engine-powered watercraft. Still, learning to sail is a ...

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I watched a large boat preparing to dock in Morro Bay. It gradually made its way to the T-pier, delicately balanced by the winds blowing out of the northwest that pushed the boat toward the southeast, ...

Take that main sheet, two hands. Let the tiller go for me. You John there. Good, clean it. That's good. Hold it right there. OK. I'll grab it, Rob. Let me get us out of your. I understand that this is ...

One of the problems of using GPS chartplotters on a sailboat is that it is extremely difficult to calculate accurate arrival times given the amount of tacking often involved. Now there's a ...