| Event: | Sailing |
| Games: | 1986 Asian Games |
| Venue: | Busan Yachting Center |
| Dates: | 23–29 September 1986 |
| Prev: | 1982 |
| Next: | 1990 |
Sailing was contested at the 1986 Asian Games in Busan Yachting Center, Busan, South Korea from 23 September 1986 to 29 September 1986.
There were five events in the competition.
| Division II | ||||
| Optimist | ||||
| Laser | ||||
| 470 | Lin Jiacheng Chen Hongtai | Farokh Tarapore Dhruv Bhandari | Norio Ogasawara Hiroyuki Kuriyama | |
| Enterprise | Munir Sadiq Muhammad Zakaullah | Ahn Cheul-ung Kim Seung-suk | Saburo Sato Tatsuya Wakinaga |