Space travel in the future could very well use solar sails to cover vast distances within the shortest amount of time.

San Francisco Bay played host to a new sailing competition called Sail GP. The races are short, the boats are fast and, if Saturday's crowd was any indication, it may be the wave of the future.

Matloff and Joseph Meany conceptualize a large solar sail made of aerographite which would only use the Sun to power a long term interstellar mission. It is based on an inflatable, hollow-body sail.

The Blistering Speed of SailGP The catamarans use wings, not sails, and hydrofoils help the boat fly over the water. It’s like a fast video game, with consequences. Share full article ...

Plasma Magnetic Sail operates like a single phase capacitor induction motor, with two coils, sequentially energizing themselves to create a rotating magnetic field (RMF). The speed of the RMF at one ...

In conjunction with the Southeast Dinghy Championships, North Sails hosted the inaugural North U Leading Edge Optimist Clinic at Key Biscayne Yacht Club to get sailors ready to take on the winter ...

A team is attempting to set a new outright world speed sailing record off the coast of Namibia in the aptly named VESTAS Sailrocket 2.