I didn’t see the wave coming that tossed me to the end of my tether; I was too busy trying to secure a headsail on the thrashing foredeck of my dad’s old J/44. We had recently peeled from a heavy J1 ...

Everyone knows that life jackets, well, save lives. But that doesn’t mean we always wear them. The Coast Guard reports that out of the 486 recreational boating deaths in 2016, most victims—83 ...