You may have at one point asked yourself: I’ve rarely ever used by boomvang, do I really need it? The obvious answer is yes, but do you really know more than just the short answer as to why?

Raceboats today are obviously much faster than the displacement boats of the past, and as a result, downwind sail trim requires two quite different approaches: You can either tension the vang and run ...

ATLANTIC >> Three storms at sea battered the 43-foot Mason sailboat forcing this Guilford couple to drop out of the Transatlantic Race 2015. But,they did manage to cross the Atlantic - no small feat.