ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) – Two Tampa Bay area women have returned to St. Petersburg after the trip of a lifetime on a sailboat that sent them up the east coast for nine months. Vanessa Goodrum and ...

At a recent coed Grandmasters Team Race Regatta, a teammate told me he didn’t understand why there were women-only sailboat races—as if to say, what’s the point? His comment was a brave one in today’s ...

Four months ago Raya Al Habsi didn’t know how to swim and was a complete sailing novice. Yet Al Habsi is set to become one of the first professional women sailors in the sultanate of Oman. Al Habsi is ...

EAST GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — As summer comes to a close, the folks at the Grand Rapids Yacht Club are reflecting on another great year spent on the water. For one Grand Rapids sailor, her time spent at ...

This weekend, the women’s sailing team hosted the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association’s inaugural Women’s Team Race National Championship at the Edgewood Yacht Club in Cranston, placing fourth out of ...

Sofia Niles, of St. Augustine, slid her gloved hands along the wheel of the “Far Niente,” looking right at home on the 44-foot boat. Rose Ann Points, president and owner St. Augustine Sailing and the ...

Rarely is the outcome of a contest fully determined before it begins. However, in sailing, where positioning behind the line and acceleration to the start are of tremendous importance, the contest can ...

They have waited years to earn respect, but now they are winning races and skippering and owning boats. By David Schmidt Competitive sailing has long been an old-boys’ club, yet over the past several ...

Dartmouth Wins and Deirdre Lambert earns Quantum Women’s College Sailor of the Year Annapolis, Md. (May 30, 2014) – Today was the last day of racing for the Sperry Top-Sider Women’s National ...

Two women are striding, together, across the deck of a small boat blazing through the ocean. They leap over a mounted GoPro and clip into trapeze harnesses in perfect synchronization, suspended out ...