sailing

Emily Penn had a mission: To find a piece of trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch large enough to stick a…

There are certainly some downsides to working aboard a massive container ship that criss-crosses the world’s oceans…

Located off the coast of Panama, the San Blas Islands are rarely visited and can be dangerous to reach. So, we…

There's a million different knots for doing a million different things. But, these five are easy-to-learn,…

A small ship is lit by a ray of sunshine as it sails up the Tagus river in Lisbon, Portugal on February 25.

A speedy new vessel owned by tech-billionaire Jim Clark is set to make some waves at next month's Sydney to Hobart…

If you've ever spent weeks at sea on a cruise, you'll know that using the Internet is a bit like stepping back in…

Every now and then, a bit of engineering comes by that is both deeply simple, and beautifully complex. This tool for…

Emily Richmond has been mistaken for Christ, had close shaves with pirates, speared her dinner and made water from a…

It's a problem as old as sailing itself. Ever since man set out sea, barnacles have been clinging like, well,…

Even the best Eagle Scout prefers to navigate during the day. The Vikings, apparently, would have laughed at such a…

This falcon-cam view as the predator hunts a crow is incredible — but just as incredible is the old sailing illusion…

On an epic two-year journey across the Pacific, a bait box in a Japanese boat turned into an aquarium when five…

The Cutty Sark is kind of a big deal. It's the last tea clipper in existence and is considered a national maritime…

One sailor is dead and four more are missing (presumably dead too) after a rogue wave struck their yacht off the…

GPS devices designed for land-lubbers work just fine on an engine-powered boat that can head straight across the…

There's not much room for a cooler, but the Sailrocket 2 isn't designed for a casual afternoon on the lake. It's…

Christopher Columbus was kind of a bastard. Still, here we are 519 years later celebrating his accidental discovery…

Oracle founder Larry Ellison takes his boat racing very seriously. His team's entry in last year's America's Cup,…

The Spinnaker chair, named after a lightweight racing sail used to give boats an extra oomph in breezy conditions,…