You are alone on a small sailing boat, more than four thousand miles of ocean ahead and you are up against approximately 80 sailors. It will take you three or four weeks to get to the finishing line.

Eight years ago, Amy Stout of Petersburg bought a sailboat at a junkyard. She spent years fixing it up and, last summer, she did something only one other woman has done so far: complete the Lake Erie ...

Absolutely, says Kirsten Neuschäfer, a long-distance solo sailing expert. In her day job transporting boats, Neuschäfer routinely sails solo across the ocean, sometimes for more than 30 days at a time ...

LES SABLES D'OLONNE, France (Reuters) - The biggest challenge facing the Vendee Globe's solo round-the-world racers is sleeping not sailing, according to the gruelling event's doctor Jean-Yves Chauve.

Perhaps the biggest failure of American sailing over the past decades is the lack of presence and impact at the highest ends of global shorthanded sailing. It wasn’t even until 2004-2005 that an ...