A one-design class fades away when either the ­building stops or the diehards and old-timers move on. Without sustained and creative efforts to replenish members, the outcome is always inevitable.

We’ve heard the phrase “learn from your mistakes” a million times, and as my Lightning crew prepared for our 2013 World Championship on Italy’s Lake Trasimeno, that saying rang especially true. We had ...

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and a good Samaritan on Monday rescued two boaters stranded nearly 2,000 miles from the nearest shores of Bermuda after a lightning strike blasted a hole in their vessel, ...

Competing at the Pan-American Game has been a bucket list item for Allan Terhune. The Annapolis-based professional sailor has been seeking to represent the United States in the Lightning class ever ...

BARCELONA, Spain — The America’s Cup organizers have called off Wednesday's racing due to stormy weather, a day after lightning struck near a sailing yacht. The race committee opted to push back the ...

PORTSMOUTH, VA (WITN) - Two sailors are safe thanks to the Coast Guard and a nearby ship after their racing yacht was struck by lightning in the Atlantic Ocean. Coast Guard officials say that they ...

BARCELONA, Spain — Some fireworks between America’s Cup heavyweights from Italy and New Zealand were interrupted by the real thing Tuesday when a brilliant bolt of lightning struck the course a few ...

Lightning flashed, hail fell and the wind roared as the mostly novice crew aboard a 26-foot boat pulled down the sails and motored for the Minnesota Point sand spit outside Duluth on Saturday evening.

Sailing took Christopher Cross away in the early 1980s. It's been taking members of the Mansfield Sailing Club away for even longer, 70 years to be exact. The Mansfield Sailing Club is celebrating its ...