Sep. 14—Keith Smith points into the wind while Mary Fauci pulls on a pair of ropes to raise the main sail — a gaff rig. The Moscow couple who have been sailing since 2006 communicate the whole time.

"That was one of the very coolest sailboat races I have ever been in my entire life," said Ken Read, President of North Sails and one of Newport Rhode Island’s most famous sailors. "Honestly, it had ...