What do you picture when you think of Florida? Palm trees, reefs, and rivers? Sunshine and deep blue ocean?

When the unthinkable happens, a young sailor has to figure out how to cope with the consequences.

Standing rigging is critical to sailboat safety. Learn how corrosion, chainplates, shrouds, and fittings fail—and how to inspect them to prevent dismasting.

It's a special trip indeed when you first visit your ancestral roots and find that you feel right at home.

Crews from three boats competing in the Newport Bermuda Race found themselves far offshore with no better option than to abandon ship.

Welcoming event offers classroom, dockside, and on-the-water workshops for sailors of all levels taught by experienced female instructors and captains.

Cruising Club of America’s 2024 award recipients include a New England sailor who sacrificed his prized K. Aage Nielsen-designed sloop to save his crew.

The Young Cruisers Association disrupts common notions of what it takes to be a cruiser. The members have created a worldwide community committed to ­pitching in and helping one another

Social media gave us all a rare firsthand view of a rescue at sea in real time during a 636-mile ocean sailing race from Rhode Island to Bermuda.