Sailing Sports

Sports in which a boat is driven by the wind acting on its sails and raced around a course. Sailing is the type case, contested in dinghies, keelboats and multihulls under the rules of World Sailing. What belongs here is a boat sport decided by seamanship and the use of the wind. Every sport filed in this group belongs to the Water and Boat Sports category and has its own entry in the Sport and Games Atlas, from which a reader can follow links on to its leading athletes, its competitions and the governing bodies that set its rules.