sailboat

Coast Guard rescued one person after a sailboat was stranded Thursday on Santa Rosa Island off the Southern California coast, officials said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

We know from the front cover of “First Light” that Ms. Brauer is “the first American woman to race a sailboat solo and nonstop around the globe,” so her survival is never in doubt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Grilling on a sailboat turns out to be much harder than grilling on land where I’m quite proficient.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Around 1607, settlers in the nearby Popham Colony constructed a wooden sailboat, dubbed Virginia—the first oceangoing boat built by English settlers in North America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

One by one Natalie and the Evanses slipped and slid down the roof and climbed on board, and within moments the wind had already pushed them and the sailboat yards away from the tilting house.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

It’s reminiscent of a question asked more than a century ago when a visitor noticed stockbrokers’ fine sailboats moored near Wall Street: “But where are the customers’ yachts?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

The Mexican Navy was searching on Friday for two sailboats that went missing while transporting humanitarian aid to crisis-hit Cuba, a week after leaving Mexico.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

It is water-repellent and was originally used on sailboats, external to make them glide better before being introduced to skiing in the 1980s.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

In 2002, the two men returned to the bank in three sailboats with a team of architects, cartographers and marine biologists from several countries to continue building.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025

In the distance, near the harbor, Molly can see a fleet of tiny sailboats.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline