Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joe Sills is a writer and photographer focusing on travel. The sinews of a thousand ropes sing as sails wake from their slumber.

Ships harnessed winds as the primary means of propulsion for many centuries before steam engines took center stage in the 1800s; it's quite poetic how maritime travel was greenhouse gas-free long ...

Wind is an underutilized resource that has the potential to steer the notoriously dirty shipping industry toward a greener future. Inhabitants of the Marshall Islands—a chain of coral atolls in the ...

As cargo freighters begin exploring the possibility of traversing the oceans with the help of hi-tech sails, smaller vintage fleets are showing them the way. The ‘Tres Hombres’ sails into Copenhagen ...

In February, 1912, Londoners packed a dock on the River Thames to gawk at the Selandia, a ship that could race through the water without any sails or smokestacks. Winston Churchill, then the minister ...