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    Seychelles anchorage: Idyllic Indian Ocean sailing

    • February 18, 2021

    It had been a long time coming but after many days of quarantine onboard, finally…

    Sailing La Vagabonde explain their multihull criteria

    • February 12, 2021

    Over the last seven years Riley Whitelum and Elayna Carausu have advanced from novice sailors…

    Golden Vanity: The rebirth of an artists’ boat

    • January 27, 2021

    The lockdown of spring 2020 prompted all kinds of unusual purchases. People bought puppies, bikes,…

    South Atlantic ocean: A crossing in mid-winter on Pelagic Australis

    • January 19, 2021

    There was a crunching sound underfoot as we loaded Pelagic Australis with provisions for the…

    Atlantic crossing in a Pandemic? ARC 2020 crews tell their stories

    • January 7, 2021

    The Covid-19 pandemic derailed the plans of around two-thirds of the crews planning to take…

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    Sailing Newfoundland: Swan 59 skipper shares his summer on ice

    • December 2, 2020

    “Humpback, 300 metres. Hard to port, Tom!” Icebear encountered her first whales in Cabot Strait,…

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    Sailing El Salvador: Captivating landscapes make this a must-see cruising destination

    • October 28, 2020

    We dropped anchor in the middle of the night and waited until daybreak for our…

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    Cruising New Caledonia: Spectacular sailing in the French corner of the Pacific

    • September 16, 2020

    “OK, this time you’ll do it, right?” Wietze asks, full of hope that this time…

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    Sailing Hong Kong: So much more than just a glittering Asian metropolis

    • August 19, 2020

    We had just dropped the anchor in a small bay, and I was standing on…

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    Locked out and locked in: World cruisers share their COVID-19 sailing dilemmas

    • August 6, 2020

    When the world abruptly locked down in March, many cruisers were caught out, and soon…

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    Pete Goss’s lessons learned from two and a half years sailing around the world

    • July 21, 2020

    After two and a half years and over 17,000 miles of cruising from the UK…

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    Cruising Colombia: An extraordinarily friendly country for visiting sailors

    • July 8, 2020

    If I asked you for five words to describe Colombia I bet they wouldn’t include…

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    Cruising Australia: Everything you need to know about sailing Down Under

    • July 7, 2020

    “It doesn’t matter where you choose, you can’t go wrong in Australia. There are so…

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    Cruising Patagonia: An extract from Winter in Fireland by Nicholas Coghlan

    • June 30, 2020

    Nicholas Coghlan circumnavigated in the late 1980s with Jenny, his wife, on their small yacht,…

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    Sailing Vancouver Island: Braving bears and bad weather on the inside-out route

    • June 22, 2020

    At 94 years of age, my father, Donald, still hates sitting in harbour. He lives…

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    Hurricane season: Cruising and mooring options from Maine to Grenada

    • May 27, 2020

    The hurricane zone extends from Cape Hatteras or the Florida/Georgia border to Grenada, so cruisers…

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    Sailing Fiji to New Zealand: The ultimate tradewinds test?

    • March 23, 2020

    We who write for the yachting press are deluged with tales of extraordinary achievement. Although…

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    Sailing Panama: Exploring idyllic islands just miles from the famous canal

    • March 18, 2020

    We looked out at the expectant faces before us: kids with footballs in hand, an…

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    Caribbean sailing: Top tips from two years exploring this cruising paradise

    • March 12, 2020

    My partner Nick and I spent two years sailing in the Lesser Antilles on our…

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    Sailing Alaska: A family adventure around the blissfully remote Admiralty Island

    • February 26, 2020

    Standing on the bow of our borrowed 36ft steel cutter, I watched as my four…

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