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by Adam Cort

Adam Cort is SAIL’s executive editor. He lives and sails in the Boston area.

MOD70 Racing is a Sensory Smorgasboard

by Adam Cort, Posted September 12, 2012
Forget about the speed, what about the noise? It was the pre-start of a 150-mile race from Newport, Rhode Island, to New York City, and I was one of four sailors manning the dual coffee grinders aboard the Multi One Design (MOD) 70 Race for Water.

The Scoop on Bluewater Foulies

by Adam Cort, Posted August 29, 2012
A look at the materials and design that go into bluewater foul-weather gear. Catch our September, October and November issue features on bluewater, coastal and dinghy foul-weather gear, and check back here for more information about our favorite picks and the materials they're made of.

Make that RIB Sparkle!

by Adam Cort, Posted August 23, 2012
Give your poor abused RIB the makeover it deserves with the environmentally friendly RIB Clean & Shine Kit from Ensearch.

A Decade of Beach Starts

by Adam Cort, Posted August 17, 2012
The Great Texas Catamaran Race, or GT300, has now marked a full decade of thrills, spills and bumps and bruises. Carrying on the tradition established by such beach cat classics as the Worrell 1000, the GT300 is a 300-mile marathon run...

Safety in a Small Package: MOM 600

by Adam Cort, Posted August 16, 2012
They say good things come in small packages: take, for example, the Switlik MOM 600. Though it’s about the size of a throw cushion and weighs just 15lb, the MOM 600 automatically inflates when deployed to become a miniature survival raft.

Forespar Tri-Reacher

by Adam Cort, Posted August 15, 2012
The Forespar Tri-Reacher is a three-piece telescoping whisker pole ideally suited for poling out gennakers and other headsails, allowing for deeper sailing angles.

Bayview One Design Regatta

by Adam Cort, Posted August 15, 2012
A Gathering of the Classes: There’s a new one-design kid in town—the Bayview One Design Regatta, which hosted more than 200 boats off Detroit, Michigan, on Lake St. Clair in early June.

Sailing Powder: Not Just for Racers

by Adam Cort, Posted August 13, 2012
How to put this delicately? Although the warm summer sun can feel great on your face, all that heat can wreak havoc on your nether regions. Enter Ice Bear Sailing Powder...

Weymouth 2012 Good for Other Teams

by Adam Cort, Posted August 13, 2012
While the U.S. experience at the 2012 Olympic regatta in Weymouth fell very much under the “agony of defeat” category, the experience was plenty thrilling for many of the other countries taking part.

2012: A Historic Olympic Defeat

by Adam Cort, Posted August 13, 2012
Never has a U.S. sailing team gone into an Olympics with higher hopes. Never have those hopes been dashed so completely as they were in Weymouth, England.
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