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    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…

    Drastic early days of broken boats and high drama in Whitbread Round the World Race

    • April 24, 2018

    This year is the 40th anniversary of the round the world race, now the Volvo…

    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…

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