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Nautor Swan’s Federico Michetti is a world-class sailor obsessed with perfection. Sail a short distance with him, and you’ll watch him make OCD-level adjustments. And when those adjustments come easy, ...

A Charlestown nonprofit, Courageous Sailing Center for Youth, wants to build a two-story facility with an outdoor pool on Pier 5 in the Navy Yard For decades, Pier 5 has been little more than a ...

The ripped sails of a marooned sailboat snap loudly in the wind two months after it became an unusual attraction along a Jersey Shore beach. A mishap at sea left the sailboat, known as the Alestorm, ...

A Florida man's sailboat has been stranded on a Sea Girt beach for nearly two months. The boat's owner has been issued summonses for an abandoned vessel and for storing it on the beach. Salvage ...

Five people are safe after the Coast Guard rescued them from a sinking sailboat hundreds of miles off the North Carolina coast Thursday. According to the Coast Guard, watchstanders at Sector North ...

The U.S. Coast Guard said five people were rescued after their sailboat began to sink far off the coast of Cape Hatteras on Thursday. Coast Guard watchstanders received a distress call that a sailboat ...

MOUTH, Va. (WTVD) -- Five men had to be rescued after their sailboat began sinking off Cape Hatteras. The Coast Guard said it received a distress call from the crew of the "Magic Bus" on Thursday ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bill Springer would rather be on a superyacht. And he often is. The uptick new large sailing yachts that have been introduced ...

A Florida man stranded his sailboat on a Sea Girt beach on September 20. The sailor, Lawrence Kaehler, mistook a beacon for an inlet during rough seas, causing him to run aground. Local residents have ...

Five people were rescued after a pod of critically endangered Iberian orcas rammed into a sailboat several times, causing it to sink off Portugal’s Costa do Caparica, near the nation’s capital, Lisbon ...

While scientists are still trying to figure out why exactly the orcas have it out for boats at sea, some have suggested that it’s simply a sign that they’re having fun. “They don’t care if it’s a ...