This is the fourth in a series of Rules columns explaining the new rules that apply at marks and obstructions. This month, I complete my discussion of Rule 18, the rule that applies at almost all ...

I ask because our tactician is having a noticeably hard time figuring out what to do. “Uh … no,” our tactician responds. “OK,” I say. “Let’s tack, then we can sort it out.” It’s not that he is doing ...

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 ...

Tacking is a technique for sailing into the wind that involves sailing at an angle into the wind, turning to make a zigzag line to the destination. At first the quality of the students' turns was a ...