The team that proved it's possible to travel downwind faster than the wind has done it again, this time modifying their cart to go upwind at more than twice the speed of the circulating air. Last time ...

Even more significant for the optimization of upwind speed is twist: the vertical shape of the leech. It’s been said that the only reason to have a front of a main is to be able to attach the leech ...

Last week, we talked about different larger sailing vessels that were common in the 17th, and 18th. and 19th centuries and how they were used. While much of the same terminology is used to describe ...