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 ...

I HELD ON TIGHT. My job was to hang onto the rope leading to the jib, holding just tight enough so the smaller sail could catch the wind. Seemed easy enough, until I started to lose sensation in my ...

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 ...

In defence of your contributor James Stewart (no relation) the letter from Janet King (January 29) is not entirely correct. The jib-boom is an extension to the bowsprit which allows the length of the ...

James Henry took a swig of his beer as the sea mist brushed against his face in Corpus Christi Bay. With his feet hanging off the 50-foot Santa Cruz sailboat, Henry leaned over the rail and rested his ...

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 ...

It’s an eerily calm day at the Dillon Marina, and Bob Evans is praying for something Summit sailors rarely need: a good, strong wind. Evans and I are suspended over chilly water on the rental dock at ...