Do you know what a sheepshank is? How about a sheet bend, a carrick bend, a clove hitch or an Eskimo bowline? Not familiar with Western culture? Then perhaps you know the Pan Chang, Chinese button or ...

The answer has its roots in Portuguese, Dutch, and English sailors who needed a way to tell how fast they were going in an ...

Q: On land we measure wind speed in miles per hour. On sea we measure it in knots. Why the difference? Driving them batty: My recent trivia question about the fastest flying creature on Earth prompted ...

Am I a sailor yet? I have a new certificate that says I am. I have a working seagoing vocabulary of luffs and lees and jibs and jibes and clews and crews. I know the word leeward is pronounced loo-erd ...

Lindsey Philpott leaned over the lifelike female mannequin, modestly draped in a white sheet, and wrapped a cord around its ankles. He explained his knots to jurors as he wove the red polypropylene ...