ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) – Two Tampa Bay area women have returned to St. Petersburg after the trip of a lifetime on a sailboat that sent them up the east coast for nine months. Vanessa Goodrum and ...

Eight years ago, Amy Stout of Petersburg bought a sailboat at a junkyard. She spent years fixing it up and, last summer, she did something only one other woman has done so far: complete the Lake Erie ...

“She was always the boat to beat,” Colleen Cooke, chief umpire of the Linda Elias Woman’s One Design Challenge, said. She was talking about the late Linda Elias, who Cooke had raced against on many ...

The Georgetown women’s sailing team competed in the Jen Harris Women’s Showcase Finals over homecoming weekend Oct. 12 and 13 and finished 10th in a field of 18 boats. The regatta was hosted by Navy ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - In Charleston’s storied sailing scene, tradition runs deep and superstitions linger, but two women captains are navigating change, challenging old norms and making space for ...

As Hurricane Gilma raged in the Pacific, the Coast Guard in Hawaii received a distress call from a sailboat left stranded by the storm. The boat was 925 miles east of Honolulu, and the rescue mission ...

The event is attracting more female skippers than in previous years, and many own the boats. By David Schmidt The skippers competing in the annual Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race dream of winning a top ...