An Obsessive Sort of Sailor

Jeanne Goussev has led teams in the Race to Alaska three times, winning the notoriously difficult race twice. Now, the founder of Sail Like A Girl is fighting a new battle against MS.

They'd weathered severe storms in this anchorage before, so they thought all was well when they dropped the hook in the same place. Then the world started tilting.

With the 37th America's Cup right around the corner, take a look into what new things you can expect from this year's evolution of the 173-year-old trophy.

One couple’s determination to build a life together on the water brought them from boat hitchhiking to running a pioneering new Fountaine Pajot Smart Electric.

An idyllic pause in paradise has Lydia Mullan considering what we value most about being out on the water.

SAIL Editor-in-Chief Wendy Mitman Clarke has spent the spring and summer racing a Herreshoff 12 1/2 and can attest to the truth that after 110 years on the water, this is still one of the sweetest sailers out there.

Erskine Childers may be best known to sailors as the author of the classic Riddle of the Sands. But as SAIL Cruising Editor Charles Doane recounts, he was also a gun runner for Irish independence on his 44-foot, Colin Archer-designed ketch and a cruising sailor with an intense sense of purpose.

The legendary Robin Lee Graham is doing a very different kind of sailing now than he was during his days aboard Dove. Emma Garschagen caught up with him in the mountains of Montana.

Shorthanded sailing has everything to do with preparation, thinking ahead, and practice. SAIL Technical Editor Adam Cove explains that on his boat, another key factor is keeping it simple.

Peter Harken, who co-founded Harken Inc., with his brother, Olaf, talks with SAIL Editor-in-Chief Wendy Mitman Clarke about growing up during wartime, organically developing a business one step at a time, the stupidest sailing there is, what kind of boats he’d sail if he were just starting out today, and the importance of fun.