Tracy Edwards on What It Took to Race Around the World
The new documentary Maiden tells the story of the first all-female sailing team to finish the Whitbread Round the World Race. We talked with the crew's skipper about the historic feat.
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What Happens When You Teach a Cowboy to Sail
Can a relationship survive a grand adventure? That’s a question neither partner thought to ask when She got the bright idea to refit an old sailboat while He was dreaming of life on the range. A he-said-she-said tale of a voyage that somehow managed to avoid the rocks.
Gear a Volvo Ocean Race Photographer Brings on Board
Pro tip: have two of everything
Sailing Across the Pacific with Muscular Dystrophy
If Ryan Levinson fell in the water, there would be no easy way for him to swim to safety. But he decided to live on a sailboat anyway.
My Father's SOS—From the Middle of the Sea
Richard Carr, a retired psychologist who had long dreamed of sailing around the world, was in the middle of the Pacific when he started sending frantic messages that said pirates were boarding his boat. Two thousand miles away in Los Angeles, his family woke up to a nightmare: he might be dying alone, and there was almost nothing they could do about it.
Step into the Most Dangerous Sailing Race on Earth
What it takes to document one of the world's most treacherous races. Words by Marley Walker.
A Reminder That Life Should Be Simple
Lotawana will feature a young unfulfilled male protagonist by the name of Forrest, who lives in his sailboat on a lake in Missouri.
How to Grow an Adventurous Family
What compels a couple to spend months at sea with their four young children? A burning desire to do something different.
Jen Edney on Photographing the Volvo Ocean Race
Adventure photographer Jen Edney embedded with the 2017–2018 Volvo Ocean Race, one of sailing's most dangerous competitions.
Retracing Benedict Arnold's Foolhardy Upstream Voyage
A glorious and ill-considered expedition to retrace the nearly 300-mile sufferfest endured by colonial badass (and not yet turncoat) Benedict Arnold and his 1,100 brave, starving men. Their aim: to take Quebec City from the British. Ours: to survive.
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