Spring Commissioning: Cam Cleats
May 15, 2012
Sometimes you have to pass through complexity on the road to simplicity, as one sailor found while rethinking his sail-handling systems.
Sometimes you have to pass through complexity on the road to simplicity, as one sailor found while rethinking his sail-handling systems.
When my oldest son, David, told me about the J/24 he had just bought I had a pretty good idea what was coming next. “Dad, I’ve bought a J/24. It needs a lot of work, but the price was right.”“What are you going to do with it?” I asked.“Race it, eventually. Here’s what needs to be done,” he said and pulled out a two-page list of repairs and upgrades he wanted to make on the boat.
May 17/2025: NO! The near-simultaneous accidental deaths of accused fraudsters and tech moguls Mike Lynch and Stephen Chamberlain—in disparate locations, of disparate causes—was NOT the product
People ask me a lot if I want to go cruising full time again. And I think, sure. Sure I do. I want to live
Distilled from a 57-year passion for fast, stable sailing, this performance cruising trimaran is refined into one beautiful, fierce machine.
If you’ve ever been in a nighttime sailing situation where you wished you could turn night into day, the new FLIR Ocean Scout Pro thermal monocular may be just what you’re looking for.
Gift Ideas for Sailors 2025
From the Spring 2025 issue of Multihull Power & Sail, a special issue of SAIL published in partnership with our sister magazine Power & Motoryacht.
One Wild Cat: An 18-foot Marshall Sanderling catboat more than proves its mettle in the Race to Alaska.
Calling all sailors in the Pacific southeast of Hawaii! Some University of Washington students need your help retrieving a wayward data-gathering vehicle whose battery is on its last legs.
This weekend we’re looking back on the start of the inaugural Sunday Times Golden Globe, which began on June 1, 1968. There was no organized
Mark Synnott, Dutton,Penguin Random House, $32 You can fill a lot of shelves with books about Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition in search of
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