Joe Hallissy peers through the sight of a hand- bearing compass. He shouts commands through a blow horn. He blows a whistle to count down the start. Later, he’ll be back on the blow horn shouting the ...

We often hear apparent wind described using the analogy of a person sitting in a convertible car on a still day. As the car accelerates from zero to 20 mph, the apparent wind felt on their face will ...

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With the increasing accuracy and update speeds of modern GPS units, it’s common for sailors to wonder whether using Speed Over Ground and Course Over Ground would be better than the old technology of ...

Humans have been sailing various seas and oceans for thousands of years, and using boats for potentially even longer than that. But as a species we wouldn’t have made it very far if it was only ...