Around 3500 BC, ancient Egyptians invented the sailboat. They built ships with masts and sails made out of reeds that could harness the power of the wind. Now researchers are working to adapt this ...

Courtesy ISCA It's the platonic ideal of the sailboat, unmistakable in lakes and coastal waters across the country, with its colorful, equilateral triangle sail pulled taut in the summer breeze.

In this situation, the reconstruction and sailing of ancient voyaging canoes becomes more than adventurous and anthropologically-fruitful excursions into the past. These projects become ways ...

Sailors from Palau and Taiwan are making a historic trip in a traditional double-hulled voyaging canoe. They are sailing from Palau in the Southwest Pacific to Taiwan's outlying Orchid Island to ...