Sailboats and Sailing

June 24, 2024

SailGP Draws Thousands of Spectators to the New York Harbor

At 11:30 a.m. Sunday morning, with New York City under a heat advisory, a gaggle of sailing enthusiasts, dressed in polo shirts and summer dresses, boarded […]
June 15, 2023

A Watchmaker Sponsors a New Classic Yacht Regatta

The Richard Mille Cup, a England-to-France regatta, includes challenging conditions, vintage yachts and an under-30 crew. LONDON — Sailing enthusiasts in Falmouth and Dartmouth, off England’s southwestern coast, […]
February 10, 2023

The Beauty of Expiration-Date Dating

Falling for someone who’s leaving can be surprisingly liberating (and so much fun). “So as a neurology nurse,” Finbar said, “what’s one thing you’ll never do?” […]
October 31, 2022

Fragile, Delicate, Free: Glimpses of Circus Life, at Sea

They arrive from the port with their colorful clothes and their well-worn musical instruments, parading through the village and performing at the various squares. Islanders view […]
June 29, 2020

Ever Further Below the Decks With ‘Below Deck’

PALMA, Majorca — A provocative theory in vogue among physicists and philosophers suggests that we humans are not experiencing, and have not ever experienced, reality. What […]
April 18, 2020

The Seas as the Ultimate Coronavirus Isolation? Not. So. Fast.

Simon and Carla Fowler are anchored in their catamaran about 650 feet off a deserted beach in the Bahamas, and they have a message for anyone […]
October 24, 2019

He Sailed the Longest Ocean Voyage in History and Turned It Into Art

Along a Hudson River pier in 2010, a sailor docked his battered schooner as a crowd watched in quiet anticipation. When he wearily stepped onto land, […]
October 22, 2019

Ahoy There, Mommy! Family Sails Around World on YouTube

NEWPORT, R.I. — They met in Ios, Greece: locking eyes across the town square, both in their 20s then. (She had noticed his distinctive mustache.) Elayna […]
November 11, 2016

Vows: Love Sets Sail, Come Rain or Come Shine

Vows By LOUISE RAFKIN To fall in love with a sailor is to court a broken heart. But in 2009, when Lauren Sloss spied Alex Kleeman […]