| Event: | Sailing |
| Games: | 1998 Asian Games |
| Venue: | Ao-dongtarn Jomtien Beach |
| Dates: | 8–13 December 1998 |
| Competitors: | 122 |
| Nations: | 16 |
| Prev: | 1994 |
| Next: | 2002 |
Sailing (as Yachting) was contested at the 1998 Asian Games from December 8 to December 13. Competition took place in various sailing disciplines at the Ao-dongtarn Jomtien Beach in Pattaya, Chonburi Province.
| Mistral light | ||||
| Mistral heavy | ||||
| Raceboard light | ||||
| Raceboard heavy | ||||
| Optimist | ||||
| Laser | ||||
| 420 | Siew Shaw Her Colin Ng | Park Jong-woo Kim Hyeong-tae | Wiwat Poonpat Kitipong Khambang | |
| 470 | Kim Dae-young Jung Sung-ahn | Eiichiro Hamazaki Masato Takaki | Tan Wearn Haw Charles Lim |
| Mistral | ||||
| Optimist | ||||
| Europe | ||||
| 420 | Joan Huang Naomi Tan | Wandee Vongtim Theeranoot Vongruck | Mou Lap Kam Lee Chun Yi | |
| 470 | Yang Xiaoyan Li Dongying | Chizuko Ijima Makiko Ikuta | Kim Myoung-hwa Jung Eun-suk |
| OK | ||||
| Super Moth | ||||
| Enterprise | Chung Yoon-gil Lim Jin-young | Mamoon Sadiq Munir Sadiq | Lalin Jirasinha Krishan Janaka |
A total of 122 athletes from 16 nations competed in sailing at the 1998 Asian Games: