Tall ships are now calling on West Coast ports, and the sight of those ships setting out to sea recalls a voyage aboard the USCGC Eagle, through dawn-calm and evening-gale, and the advice to young cadets as they're ordered aloft: "If you don't let go, you don’t fall"... MORE
Professional race manager Jeff Zarwell reports on his first experiment with a windward gate. It's more work for the race committee and it's harder to make it right and keep it right in windshifts or cross-current, but it works. His customers liked it... MORE
An average hurricane season has 11 named storms, 6 reaching hurricane status and 2 becoming major hurricanes. But the Climate Prediction Center sees a high probability of 12 to 16 named storms in the Atlantic Basin in 2008, and with that, the hurricane threat rises too... MORE
A well-prepared skipper is a happy skipper, and today's electronic tools are tremendous aids. Richard A. McBride continues the theme begun in the July issue of SAIL. Here he talks about planning a full year's worth of sailing on a spreadsheet, and his favorite electronic aids... MORE
Ask SAIL's experts. If we don't know the answer, we know who does. Our question of the moment? What if it goes wrong? What if you have an incompetent skipper (rare but possible), or what if it's just bad chemistry... MORE
Some of us here at SAIL may have been jealous when our colleagues Peter Nielsen and David Schmidt took off for Antigua Sailing Week. Then they had the gall to call their story in the July issue, Dream Week. But we've learned a lot about charter-racing in the Caribbean, and we want to share... MORE
It's the rugged little gadget that can make or break your day, but no impeller lasts forever. Hello, goodbye, hello. Here's how to replace an impeller, how to make it easier to replace an impeller, and how to stay ahead of what could well be an ugly emergency... MORE
The "fun race to Hawaii," the Pacific Cup, continues to attract a high proportion of first-timers, supported by the event's many seminars. Division starts, San Francisco to Oahu, continue through Saturday, getting racier through the week. We talk with Morpheous skipper Jim Gregory ... MORE
SAIL Photo Contest For almost a year now, we've been asking you, our readers, to send in your best sailing pics. And you have. Thank you. We're enjoying them and sharing them. Got a candidate of your own? Don't be shy. Send it in. Click here for details and the gallery.
BLOGS, VIDEOS, AND PODCASTS
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Best Boats Program
SAIL Senior editor Bill Springer joins Matt Lacroix of Raymarine to discuss SAIL's Best Boats program, trends in the sailboat market, and new gear you can find at this year's boatshows. Click here to listen. PODCAST ARCHIVE
SAIL TESTS AND REVIEWS
NEW BOATS: theEdge By Hunter
Hunter Marine has never been afraid to mix things up, and they're doing it again with a 27-foot, trailerable, water-ballasted motorsailer, theEdge. The 75 hp outboard in full cry pulls skiers . . .
HOW THEY'RE BUILT
Join SAIL editors for factory tours of important boat builders. Click the image to travel to Germany and visit HANSE...
The Highland Spring HIHO brings sailing and windsurfing together for one amazing week every year in the British Virgin Islands, when windsurfers travel down to the islands from around the world, to join friends and family... MORE
Are your tales of coastal cruising compelling enough for the pages of SAIL? Do you cruise in an area we haven’t written about in a while? Is your writing professional enough for publication? If you answered yes, consider yourself... MORE
Given safety standards for offshore racing, you might figure that your average race boat is more prepared for stormy weather than your average cruiser. But what of the argument that a race boat has other factors against it? ... MORE
Many a voyager has traveled many a mile and never needed a drogue or a sea anchor. Others have traveled a few miles and run out of luck. Questions about these devices outweigh answers, or do they?... MORE
Days away from port and thousands of miles offshore, a sailor in the Volvo Ocean Race decides whether to eat chicken à la king, beef stroganoff, or three-cheese lasagna... MORE
Are you a sail abuser? Maybe you can live with leech flutter, not your sail. And if you're fine by the sound of flogging sails, think of it as music to a sailmaker's ears... MORE
Since taking over as chair of the U.S. Olympic Sailing Committee, Dean Brenner has focused on fundraising and the long-term goal of creating a new-look U.S. team. Tune in as Kimball Livingston asks him to peer beyond... MORE
BEN ELLISON'S ELECTRONICS BLOG
