Blame it on the margaritas that fueled the first ­brainstorming session, or the three decades that have blitzed past since a band of sailing-magazine personnel schemed the NOOD regatta in 1988.

Olympic hopefuls sacrifice their bodies, minds, careers, and relationships with a sort of distorted tunnel vision, headed straight toward those illustrious five rings. They push themselves to physical ...

Young sailors in the first day of a UC Santa Cruz Community Boating Center Junior Beginning Sailing Class glide through the water in the Santa Cruz Harbor. The young mariners were sailing aboard the ...

Some come to live out the fantasy of sailing off to paradise. Others simply want to learn enough to pilot a 14-foot dinghy in Newport Bay. About 6,000 people each year take classes from Orange Coast ...

a noncredit intermediate Lidos sailing class from 1 to 5 p.m. Feb. 6, 20 and 27 and March 5 at OCC’s Sailing Center in Newport Beach. The cost is $120. Information: (949) 645-9412. Orange Coast ...

The 55th sailing of the Congressional Cup this week has gone smoothly for the Long Beach Yacht Club. Weather in the high 60s and a few wispy clouds that have not yet yielded rain. Then there’s the ...

Just three months after a devastating fire all but destroyed their exquisite clubhouse building, the California Yacht Club celebrated the opening day of sailing season in style over the weekend.

A lifetime love of sailing and a philosophy of patience are what guides Gig Harbor’s Mike Rice and forms his teaching philosophy at the Puget Sound Sailing Institute (PSSI). Founder and director of ...

ON LAKE SUPERIOR - Jerry Paulson had just maneuvered his sailboat under the Aerial Lift Bridge and out the Duluth Ship Canal, then steered slightly toward the North Shore. Then he cut the little ...