Metro Detroiters can take a trip through history this weekend to see what life on a traditional sailing ship was like as part of the Sail Detroit festival by the riverfront. Four tall ships — enormous ...

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GALVESTON — In February, Mark Scibinico, director of the Galveston Historic Seaport, where the tall ship Elissa usually docks, showed me around the vast Gulf Copper shipyard on Pelican Island in ...

Joshua Slocum, an indefatigable trader, entrepreneur and sailor, born in 1844 on a farm in Nova Scotia, had a patchy record as a ship’s captain. Mutinies had a way of breaking out among his crews—he ...

History is docked along the Detroit RiverWalk as captains and crews of four tall ships built for sailing show off their wooden vessels to the public in the Sail Detroit festival. The ships, "The ...

In 2018, thousands of people from Texas and beyond lined the sidewalks and beaches of the Galveston Seawall, armed with binoculars, telephoto lenses, and telescopes. They came for an unprecedented ...

Modern harbors are crowded with steel hulls and humming engines, not tall masts and canvas. The global fleet has traded wind for fuel because commercial shipping, naval power, and leisure boating now ...