The first time self-described “ocean advocate” Emily Penn was confronted by the magnitude of the plastic pollution problem was during an international sailing expedition 10 years ago. She spotted bits ...

Four months ago Raya Al Habsi didn’t know how to swim and was a complete sailing novice. Yet Al Habsi is set to become one of the first professional women sailors in the sultanate of Oman. Al Habsi is ...

The monolithic issue of ocean plastic is, quite frankly, terrifying. Tons of plastic (eight million a day, to be exact) have been dumped in our oceans for decades, silently leaching toxins and working ...

Women sailing in college are a critical part of the sport, and its rich and impressive history speaks to this fact. From the inception of the Intercollegiate Sailing Association in the 1930s, sailing ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) – Two Tampa Bay area women have returned to St. Petersburg after the trip of a lifetime on a sailboat that sent them up the east coast for nine months. Vanessa Goodrum and ...

South Africa's Kirsten Neuschäfer is leaving fellow skippers in her wake as she vies to become the first woman to win the Golden Globe Race -- a solo, nonstop voyage around the world that started in ...

Ayme Sinclair never thought she’d fall in love with competitive sailing, but that’s exactly what happened after a friend invited her out on a vessel. “I’d always been into boating and the water and ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - In Charleston’s storied sailing scene, tradition runs deep and superstitions linger, but two women captains are navigating change, challenging old norms and making space for ...

At a recent coed Grandmasters Team Race Regatta, a teammate told me he didn’t understand why there were women-only sailboat races—as if to say, what’s the point? His comment was a brave one in today’s ...

The Holland America Line cruise ship Nieuw Statendam was about 40 miles northeast of Sabana, Cuba, when the woman went overboard on Thursday, the U.S. Coast Guard said.