Once, while coaching a team before the Rolex International Women’s Keelboat Championship, someone asked me about jib sail trim, so I hopped on board and sat to leeward to video their jib leech while ...

As the J/Boat team leader for Quantum Sails, I spend a lot of time racing with customers on current J/Boat models. Many of these boats have non-overlapping jibs with controls for sheeting the jib. The ...

Learn the proper lingo before you watch your next race.

NEWPORT, R.I. — “Good choice! You stole some wind,” the screen read on the race simulator at The Sailing Museum. “Woo-hoo!” hooted participant (and non-sailor) Paul Kelley of Marstons Mills, as he ...

NEWPORT — OK, I learned the mainsail has sections called luff, leech, foot, and clew. So does the jib sail, and both are attached to the mast by what I swore were ropes but are called lines. There ...

What do you do with a teenaged sailor? Send her to Kingston, Ontario to compete in the Laser 4.7 Youth World Championships of course. That's exactly where 16-year-old Livi Allen of St. John's is this ...