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    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…

    Photo Oscar Companioni.

    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…

    A classic Swan 43 in Scandinavia: Pip Hare discovers a place to keep the world at bay

    • October 31, 2016

    Five hours out of Kokkola, the Baltic was baring its teeth. It was the middle…

    A racer’s life: EF Education in the 1997-98 Whitbread round the world race

    • October 18, 2016

    It’s hard to believe that almost 20 years have elapsed since the Swedish EF team…

    British sailor David Cowper navigates ‘world’s most difficult sea route’ for first time since discovery in 1822

    • October 11, 2016

    British sailor and explorer David Cowper has successfully transited one of the most difficult routes…

    Ana and Alex take measures of yet another whale carcass of hundreds found in the Golfo Tres Montes region of Chilean Patagonia.

    Coastal Chile: uncovering the truth behind a mass whale stranding

    • October 7, 2016

    The Golfo de Penas is a long way from anywhere. It is one of the…

    Lashing spray on a frenzied ocean as Isobell plunged downwind.

    ‘Force Unlucky’ mid-Atlantic: surviving a truly ferocious winter gale

    • September 29, 2016

    Today’s sailing world is well stocked with sponsored heroes, performing remarkable feats in the cause…

    A winter adventure: yacht Hummingbird moored just off the old Portuguese fortifications of El Jadida

    A winter cruise to Morocco and a rare glimpse into another world

    • September 8, 2016

    Sandy, straight and with few deep water ports, the Atlantic coast of Morocco stretches for…

    Disaster relief by yacht – how cruisers around the world are doing their bit

    • August 9, 2016

    Gusting up to 190mph, Cyclone Winston was the strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded reaching land…

    Rio, a cruiser’s perspective – should you drop everything and sail there?

    • August 4, 2016

    Scarcely ruffled by a lazy late afternoon breeze, the sea was an oily pink and…

    Bear necessities: Cruising the Broughton islands on Canada’s Pacific coast

    • July 1, 2016

    We left Dead Point at 0800 in a flat calm and entered Beware Passage –…

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