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

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 ...

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 ...

This last one looks a little more complicated, but it’s actually a super-simple knot called a sailor’s knot. I used a men’s striped T-shirt for a slightly nautical flair. Cut either 2 or 4 strips ...

Just in time for the last days of summer, Warsaw Made offers a new take on the sailor's knot bracelet. At $38 each, you can pile them on for a fun mix of casual and edgy. -- Lida SELF does not provide ...

A U.S. Navy sailor married his high school sweetheart on Tuesday in Reno-Tahoe International Airport, just moments after returning from an 11-month deployment off the coast of war-torn Syria. Seaman ...