French skipper Alain Thébault and his co-skipper Jacques Vincent, with their crew of four Americans, are nearing the halfway point in their attempt to beat the transpacific speed record from Los ...

Over his long career making boats go as fast as humanly possible, Matt Gotrel has done all kinds of grueling jobs. In the Olympics, he rowed them to the brink of collapse to win gold for Great Britain ...

Traffic in and around big cities is getting more clogged, and the rising levels of pollution definitely don't help with the quality of life in these areas. But what if there was a clean, efficient ...

In a letter to his son Eduard in February of 1930, Albert Einstein wrote “Life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” Drawing a relationship between that wisdom and sailing ...

A groundbreaking sailboat could reshape the future of sustainable transportation. The SP80, a futuristic, kite-powered vessel designed by a Swiss engineering team, has just logged the second-fastest ...

With this year's America's Cup race boats spec'd to extremely fast hydrofoil sailing, precise timing is more crucial than ever. While racing fans are counting down the days until the beginning of the ...

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Launched in 1869, the Cutty Sark was the fastest sailing ship of its time. These days the clipper is a London tourist attraction. In its prime, when it dashed across the world carrying tea from China ...

The catamarans use wings, not sails, and hydrofoils help the boat fly over the water. It’s like a fast video game, with consequences. By Kimball Livingston A generation ago, sailing would not, could ...