The best way to recognize an approaching windshift during the closing minutes of a prestart is to observe other boats upwind on the course, but if you’re the only class on the racecourse, or the first ...

Humans have been sailing various seas and oceans for thousands of years, and using boats for potentially even longer than that. But as a species we wouldn’t have made it very far if it was only ...

The Courant Institute's Christiana Mavroyiakoumou, above at Central Park's Conservatory Water, and the University of Michigan's Silas Alben studied how sails behave during a wide range of tacking ...