This is a story about a lake and a boy who loved the lake and how, when the lake disappeared, the boy made do. And how that leads to ­something big. The boy was Glenn Ashby, growing up in the interior ...

The Orient Express Corinthian, set to become the world’s largest sailing cruise ship, measures ...

SP80 has the world sailing speed record in its sights. The fledgling Swiss outfit has started building a new sailing boat designed to reach a blistering top speed of 80 knots and make history in the ...

It’s sad that a champion vehicle of any kind should be kept away and forgotten for more than a decade. Any boat, especially a record-breaking one, should be out at sea. And that’s exactly what’s going ...

In one week, Armel Le Cleac’h has beaten Francis Joyon’s records for the longest distance sailed singlehandedly for 24 hours and the fastest time to complete the Discovery Route of the Americas from ...

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN)– Two sailboat skippers, one from San Francisco, set sail at about 1:30 a.m. Eastern time this morning from Newport, R.I., with the goal of breaking the world sailing speed record, ...

There's a new team challenging the world sailing speed record, and it's using a kite-powered sailboat to do it. SP80 aims not only to surpass the current record of 68.3 knots, but it also plans to ...

A French startup doesn’t want to just beat the current speed record for a sailboat. It wants to crush it. Syroco, launched by a world record kite-surfing holder and a tech veteran, says its boat, ...

For more than eight years, the world sailing speed record has remained unbroken. In November 2012, Australian Paul Larsen reached 65.45 knots (or 121 kilometers per hour/75 mph) in his Vesta ...

Two teams, Switzerland's SP80 and France's Syroco, are taking aim at the world speed sailing record in 2022, with a pair of thoroughly remarkable kiteboats that both teams believe can smash previous ...