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    The amazing voyage of Laura Dekker, the 15-year-old who sailed round the world alone

    • August 17, 2017

    In 2009, the English sailing community was galvanised by the arrival on the East Coast…

    Beach rescue – Skip Novak aids lone yachtsman recovering yacht from remote shore

    • July 28, 2017

    It is rare to leave the Antarctic Peninsula earlier than need be. No matter how…

    Mike Peyton on learning to sail – an extract from his autobiography, Quality Time

    • July 6, 2017

    Not many readers of Yachting World will have failed to come across the cartoons of…

    “What the hell were we doing in this situation?” The true story of the Mutiny recreation for UK television

    • June 23, 2017

    We staggered up the beach in a remote part of Timor, our weary legs gave…

    Yacht shipping versus yacht delivery under sail – which method really costs more and why?

    • June 11, 2017

    A transocean passage can be a cruising delight, but it can also represent a logistical…

    Conrad Colman’s Vendee Globe story in his own words – “I gave this race my all”

    • June 10, 2017

    Carbon fibre race yachts are noisy beasts. Sharp creaks from the sheets in the cockpit,…

    Racing on Eleonora in the Caribbean 600 – a dream course for a giant classic schooner

    • June 8, 2017

    One of the great wonders of sailing is that, no matter how wide our experience…

    Faeroes to Norway in a Wayfarer dinghy – Frank Dye’s extraordinary tale of sea survival

    • June 7, 2017

    When I was a student in Liverpool in the mid-1960s, sailing the university’s Firefly dinghies…

    Pitchpoled in the Pacific in an open boat – survival depends on crossing a deadly Pacific Island reef

    • April 24, 2017

    Webb Chiles is a one-off, writes Tom Cunliffe. The first American to sail single-handed around…

    Night sailing – the essential guide for offshore cruisers

    • April 19, 2017

    With a full moon and following wind, night sailing can be one of the great…

    Perini Navi superyacht Rosehearty takes on the North West Passage

    • April 15, 2017

    “The owner has always had an interest in history, especially the North West Passage –…

    Transatlantic in a catamaran – from Reykjavik to Newfoundland via Prince Christian Sound Greenland

    • April 7, 2017

    Safely aboard in Reykjavik, about to depart for Greenland some 600 cold, grey miles away,…

    Rammed by a trawler off the coast of Brittany: “There was no-one at the wheel”

    • March 27, 2017

    The 90-ton ketch Johanne was launched in 1929 as a Baltic trader, writes Tom Cunliffe.…

    Solo sailor Paul Heiney describes battling gale force winds off the Azores

    • March 23, 2017

    I was 150 miles south-west of the Azores, heading for home, and it was blowing…

    How Thomas Coville set the solo round the world sailing record

    • March 18, 2017

    ‘A warrior,’ is how Samantha Davies, part of the intelligence team that guided Thomas Coville…

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    How author Martin O’Scannall removed the engine from his yacht and learned to listen to the sea

    • February 12, 2017

    For the Love of Sauntress – A Forty-year Affair published as recently as 2014 by…

    Skip Novak: cruising is being taken over by permits and paperwork

    • January 23, 2017

    How rare it is, to be left to your own devices on a wild island.…

    Sailing to Saint Helena – one of the world’s most remote communities

    • January 19, 2017

    We crossed wakes with Captain Cook 350 miles out from the Namibian coast and 245…

    Great Seamanship – a true account of sailing solo across the Atlantic against the wind and current

    • December 28, 2016

    Paul Heiney is a cruising sailor to the core who has succeeded in some notable…

    Sailing across the Atlantic from Senegal to Guyana – adventure or nightmare?

    • December 26, 2016

    A very wise man once told me that there are two kinds of sailors: those…

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