May 22, 2025 By Mathew Channer Being born without arms and legs has never stopped Tracy “Unstoppable Tracy” Schmitt from pursuing sports and adventure, including mountain climbing, scuba diving, skiing, and particularly sailing. Schmitt is an author, motivational speaker, and competition sailor who recently returned from representing Canada at the 2025 Hansa Para Worlds in…
May 8, 2025 There’s much big news from Scott Shawyer and Canada Ocean Racing. The team has just acquired a current generation foiling IMOCA 60 – formerly known as Groupe Dubreuil and originally 11th Hour Racing – Mālama. The team also announced that British offshore sailor Pip Hare will join its Be Water Positive campaign…
May 8, 2025 Peter Wickwire and his Storm Match Racing Team (from from Halifax and sailing out of the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron and Chester Yacht Club), including Dan MacMillan, Steve Flam, Travis Odenbach, Savannah Taylor and James Hayhoe, took the 8th position at their first participation at the Congressional Cup held April 30-May…
May 8, 2025 By Keven Piper There are as many ways to design a sail as there are sail designers in the world. In the old days, sailmakers would start either with the measurements of an existing sail that worked on the boat or a blueprint of the sailplan of the boat. These 2D methods…
May 8, 2025 By Peter Rowe Why would readers wish to read about sailing short distances, close to home, in benign weather, with no storms, groundings, unfriendly locals, or foolish maritime mishaps to enliven the tale? Standard practice for articles in most sailing magazines like this is to write about destinations that are distant, exotic,…
