Sailing is nerdier than you think. You rarely have the wind at your back. The sails act as airfoils as the wind passes over them at certain angles. As the sail opens, lift is created. That lift drags the boat along the water. Pretty awesome right? Well, let’s throw another level of nerdy in there with an iPhone compass app. More »
There’s not much room for a cooler, but the Sailrocket 2 isn’t designed for a casual afternoon on the lake. It’s engineered to set a new sailing speed record, and it’s in Namibia right now trying to do just that. More »
The Plastiki – a boat made up of 12,500 recycles PET bottles – sailed into Sydney Harbour over the weekend after four months crossing the Pacific ocean. Yesterday, we got to look at it up close. More »
On the right: the spot on the globe most isolated from land, separated by over a thousand miles from the nearest landmass in every direction. On the left: an iPhone 4 FaceTime call from that exact location. Whoa. More »
Even for sailors with decades of experience, the ocean can be daunting. Abby Sunderland, a 16-year-old Californian attempting to circle the globe by herself, took the challenge head-on, but as of this morning she’s missing in the Indian Ocean. More »
