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Mark Richards (in blue shirt) admires the canting keel fin for Palm Beach XI (nee-Wild Oats). Salty Dingo 2023

In 2005, the wealthy Australian yachtsman and businessman Bob Oatley commissioned Reichel/Pugh to design a 98-footer called Wild Oats XI with one clear intention in mind: Take names and kick butt on the annual 635-mile...

Charleston’s flat water was perfect for the planing Cape 31s. Tequila Mockingbird enjoys the fast conditions. Ty Baird Media/Charleston Race Week

After four days of racing in conditions ranging from 8 to 20-plus knots, and on courses that ranged from short intense windward/leeward races to long 16- and 20-mile tours of Charleston Harbor...

The Sallteck GPS Compass brings everything to the table in an inexpensive but powerful device. Courtesy of Sailteck

It is true in life that timing is everything. As proof, in a recent off-season purge of old sailing equipment, I held in my hand my original metallic blue Tacktick compass that had been worked hard over 20 something years...

Madeline Baldridge, on the helm of Bae Safari, and her teammates won Charleston Race Week’s VX One division and the coveted overall honors of the Charleston Cup Priscilla Parker/Charleston Race Week

Tej Trevor Parekh has been competing in the VX One class of