What is Sailing (sport)?
{{Infobox sport | image=J-24 yacht racing, Sydney Harbour.jpg | imagesize=300px | caption=Inshore yacht racing on [[Port Jackson|Sydney Harbour]] | union=World Sailing | nickname=Sailing/Yachting | first=18th century | registered= | clubs= | contact=No | Squad= | mgender=Mixed | category=Outdoor | ball= | olympic=1900–present<ref> {{cite web |url = https://stillmed.olympic.org/AssetsDocs/OSC%20Section/pdf/QR_sports_summer/Sports_Olympiques_voile_eng.pdf |title = SAILING: History of Sailing at the Olympic Games |last = Olympic Studies Centre |date = March 2015 |website = stillmed.olympic.org |publisher = International Olympic Committee |access-date = 2017-03-07 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170307205131/https://stillmed.olympic.org/AssetsDocs/OSC%20Section/pdf/QR_sports_summer/Sports_Olympiques_voile_eng.pdf |archive-date = 2017-03-07 |url-status = dead }}</ref> }} The sport of '''sailing''' is racing other boats around a track or course which is marked with floating [[buoy]]s or other fixed marks. Boats can be from small [[dinghy sailing|dinghies]] to large [[yacht]]s. Usually, the small boats will just race each other and be of the same type. This is called one-design racing. Larger boats will often be of different sizes and race with a [[handicap]] [[system]]. ==Yacht racing== On the water, a large sailing competition among different boats is a [[regatta]]. This is usually a number of races, where the boat [[crew]] that performs the best over the series of races is the winner. A lot of racing is done around buoys or marks in safe water near the shore but some longer offshore races cross open water. ===America's Cup=== It could be said that the sport of international yacht racing began with the America's Cup in 1851. A group of members from the New York Yacht Club built a 101-foot schooner which they called America. This yacht was sailed to England where it won a challenge race for a trophy called the Hundred Guineas Cup. The race course took them a