The 116th Race to Mackinac sets sail on Friday afternoon. Nearly 300 boats will race more than 330 miles from Chicago to Mackinac Island in Michigan. The 2,500 sailors are coming to compete from 49 ...

The BBC has lost the television rights to the Boat Race after the corporation’s director of sport appeared to show “very little enthusiasm” during negotiations. Channel 4 will be confirmed as the ...

LAKE MICHIGAN - We’re smack in the middle of the high season for summer sailboat races on Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. After last week’s fast-paced Bayview Mackinac Race, today kicks off the first ...

TV coverage of the annual Boat Race will leave the BBC and move to Channel 4 as part of a new five-year rights deal. Channel 4 said it was "thrilled" to announce it will provide coverage of both the ...

A retired Clark County fire captain will soon be trading in his desert home for a 70-foot boat to sail around the world. Jimmy Johnson will join hundreds of sailors to embark on a nautical adventure ...

CHIPPEWA COUNTY — The 29th biennial Trans Superior Yacht Race starts Saturday. It’s the world’s longest known freshwater sailboat race covering around 350 miles starting from Gros Cap Light in ...

Channel 4 has secured the broadcast rights to The Boat Race in a multi-year agreement. At the Presidents’ Challenge event held at Somerset House, at which the losing crew from the previous year’s Boat ...

As the Boat Race follows them, the BBC conveys the distinct impression that it has simply given up on live sport altogether. Its geniuses lack the remotest notion that hundreds of thousands of British ...

The team from Community Boating Center in New Bedford recently won a US-to-Canada race. The team used a 50-foot racing yacht donated by Fairhaven Shipyard. The teens took shifts during the 24-hour ...