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 ...

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 ...

“The real problem with women’s ­sailing is that all the boats we sail are made for men.” A guy recently said this to me after telling me how big a proponent he is of women in sailing. This wasn’t the ...

VALLE DE BRAVO, Estado de Mexico, Mexico (August 14, 2017) – Women’s teams from around the world have arrived at the Club de Vela La Peña A.C. for the International Women’s Keelboat Championship ...

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 ...

LEXINGTON COUNTY, S.C. (WIS) - If you drive by Lake Murray this weekend, you might notice a few more sails speckling the water. What you might not be able to see are the women sailors in every Sunfish ...

The No. 14 women’s sailing team and No. 2 coed squad won their respective events at the MAISA regatta in Annapolis, Md. The Georgetown sailing teams traveled to Annapolis, Md., this past weekend to ...

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 ...

Aug. 2 (UPI) --Friday's Google Doodle salutes the sailing competitions of the 2024 Olympics games in Paris. The animated artwork shows a white dog pulling a toy boat on wheels carrying a blue bird ...