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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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    Sailing Hawaii: A leisurely cruise around these picture-perfect volcanic islands

    • February 12, 2020

    We started our Pacific voyage on board Distant Drummer, our 45ft Liberty cutter-rigged sloop, from…

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    Caribbean sailing tips: Chris Doyle on making the most of your time there

    • February 5, 2020

    Chris Doyle’s is a name familiar to all Caribbean cruisers, as the author of best-selling…

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    Sailing the Falkland Islands: A life-changing voyage on board Pelagic

    • January 22, 2020

    In spring 2016 my partner, Magnus, and I delivered Pelagic, one of two yachts owned…

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    Sailing Maine: Exploring a magical corner of America’s northeast coast

    • January 8, 2020

    Bursting through the Cape Cod Canal is like a voyage through Narnia’s wardrobe. Huge lunar…

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    Sailing Ushant: Tom Cunliffe explores France’s most daunting island

    • December 18, 2019

    ‘Qui voit Ouessant boit son sang.’ In plain English, this old Breton sailors’ proverb reads:…

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    Sailing Galicia: Exploring the enchanting rias of North-West Spain

    • December 11, 2019

    Dreams of white sand beaches fringed weather with granite boulders warmed by the Galician sun…

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    Pete Goss transatlantic: Vendee Globe racer embraces life in the slow lane

    • November 18, 2019

    Out of the blackness a breaking crest makes itself known with an alien glow of…

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    Cruising British Columbia: Exploring Canada’s Wild West coast by boat

    • November 13, 2019

    The coastline of south-east Alaska and northern British Columbia is a fractured network of islands,…

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    French canals offer a scenic route to the Med for sailing yachts

    • October 30, 2019

    For many skippers wishing to sail between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, it’s necessary to…

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    Sailing Morocco: Unforgettable experiences all along the Atlas Coast

    • October 23, 2019

    Air is chopped in the distance. Our ears swell as an ill-defined dot appears, growing…

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