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    Family sailing to Hawaii in a 34ft classic boat: Vixen’s great Pacific voyage

    • April 30, 2020

    In September 2004, Bruce Halabisky and Tiffany Loney sailed from Victoria BC bound for Hilo,…

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    Exumas to New York in a 33ft boat: Dick Carter’s extraordinary east coast voyage

    • April 7, 2020

    In 1965 a young American designer, Dick Carter, met up with Bernard Hayman of Yachting…

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    Voyage of Integrity: Sailing to Jan Mayen island on a modern classic cutter

    • March 11, 2020

    “Please could you come up on deck,” accompanied the gentle nudge that breached the cocoon…

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    Sailing the North West Passage: An extract from Graeme Kendall’s To the Ice and Beyond

    • March 10, 2020

    Every so often, a book appears that blows preconceptions clean out of the porthole. To…

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    Sailing Greenland: An ice-bound voyage through Prince Christian Sound

    • March 4, 2020

    “Can you see a way through?” Perched on the spreaders, binoculars in hand, Magnus shook…

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    Solo overboard: An extract from Miles Hordern’s Sailing The Pacific

    • February 17, 2020

    Back in the early 1990s, a young man called Miles Hordern sailed his 28ft Kim…

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    The inside story of Greta Thunberg’s upwind Atlantic crossing on La Vagabonde

    • February 13, 2020

    The sky flashed a blinding white light and a spark came down just a few…

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    The adventures of Infinity: Sailing to Antarctica on a 120ft handmade ketch

    • December 4, 2019

    “When I say ‘Jump!’ y’all say ‘How high?’. If y’all don’t want to say ‘How…

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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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    Sailing Antarctica: Record-breaking voyage around the southern continent

    • September 25, 2019

    Many believe number seven to be lucky. The seventh day of February proved to be…

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    Sailing South Georgia: The inside story of Skip Novak’s 2018 expedition

    • September 18, 2019

    We were eight days out from the south coast of South Georgia and once again…

    Sailing around Cape Horn on the world’s largest ketch Aquijo

    • August 5, 2019

    When asked to help guide the 86m/282ft ketch Aquijo for a cruise in Tierra del…

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    Back to basics: Offshore sailing by celestial navigation alone

    • June 18, 2019

    I have tattoos of a rooster and a pig on my feet. They’re meant to…

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    Unfinished business: Sailing back across the Atlantic in a 22ft sloop

    • May 29, 2019

    This is part two of Max Campbell’s account of sailing solo across the Atlantic –…

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    Life-changing voyage: Sailing solo across the Atlantic in a 22ft sloop

    • May 28, 2019

    On a cloudy midsummer afternoon, my best friend, Harry Scott, and I waved goodbye to…

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    Sailing to high latitudes: Everything you need to know before you set sail

    • May 17, 2019

    Specialist high latitude yachts invariably have metal hulls and are very solidly built with large…

    Lines to Hawaii: a dream cruise chasing the Pacific surf from Tahiti to Honolulu

    • December 12, 2018

    I could only laugh. Travis Rice, world-famous snowboarding pioneer, had just jumped into the Pacific…

    A voyage for 21st Century madmen? What drives the Golden Globe skippers

    • September 13, 2018

    A voyage for madmen, so was the original Sunday Times Golden Globe Race deemed. When…

    A test of commitment: a young couple cross the North Atlantic from Michigan to Cornwall

    • August 8, 2018

    Luke asked me marry him. My feet didn’t touch the ground, I was airborne in…

    The Dark Transat: how to sail across an ocean after total power failure

    • July 4, 2018

    A complete power failure mid-ocean is thankfully rare, and it is usually the charging system…

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