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Sailing record holder Ken Gourlay thinks no one is more capable than his son Tristan, to beat an almost 20-year record for ...

I first learned how to sail as a teenager. It was just a summer camp activity, something I did for fun. When I was in my early 20s I purchased my first boat for myself, and I found a blog of someone ...

Gone is the idea of skippers disappearing over the horizon and then finishing hundreds, if not thousands, of miles apart, having surfed entirely separate weather systems in the Southern Ocean. From ...

A 29-year-old woman from Maine became the first American woman to sail around the world after arriving in A Coruña, Spain, on Thursday, March 7. Cole Brauer and her 40-meter sailboat, "First Light," ...

Captain Bill Pinkney, the second African American man to sail around the world solo and the first via Cape Horn, has died in Atlanta at age 87, Atlanta News First reports. The Chicago native passed ...

Cole Brauer made history as the first American woman to sail nonstop around the world by herself. The 29-year-old, who came in second in the Global Solo Challenge, is an East Hampton native. Her ...

Ann Davison was nobody’s idea of a successful solo transoceanic sailor. In 1949 she set out from England with her husband in an old boat to cruise the world, one step ahead of their creditors. They ...

"The DeVinne Press"--Verso of t.p. A sailing memoir, first published in serial form in 1899 (The Century Magazine) about Slocum's single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray. The ...