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    Skip Novak goes sailing to climb mountains – in the wake of Tilman

    • June 29, 2016

    I have always thought that voyaging under sail is more gratifying when it has an…

    French sailor on a world tour via the North West Passage with a red hen

    • June 13, 2016

    Guirec Soudée met Monique during a stopover in the Canary Islands when she joined him…

    Bras d’Or lake in Nova Scotia is an oasis of calm

    • May 27, 2016

    Our Mason 44, Frances B, on the run from ever-colder climes farther north, swept by…

    Reinventing Barbados – the Caribbean island works to welcome back cruisers

    • May 13, 2016

    Barbados is one of the most popular tropical islands on the planet, especially with Britons,…

    A late summer cruise on the wild west coast of Ireland

    • May 3, 2016

    lt’s the last sail of the season. The harbours are empty save for a few…

    World ARC crews talk to us in Colombia, first stop on their circumnavigation

    • April 25, 2016

    Thirty-three yachts are in the early stages of a 26,000-mile circumnavigation with the sixth World…

    Mayday, we’re sinking – crew rescued from the ARC yacht Magritte as she goes down

    • March 10, 2016

    Early evening on 3 December Steve Arnold was awoken by his friend and crewmate Andy…

    Cruising guru Jimmy Cornell transits the North West Passage in Aventura IV

    • February 23, 2016

    The North West Passage has been described as the Everest of sailing. Since Roald Amundsen’s…

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    Great Seamanship: dramatic account by Mike Golding of rescuing Alex Thomson in the Southern Ocean

    • February 22, 2016

    Mike Golding OBE, ex-firefighter and twice winner of the IMOCA (Open 60) World Championship against…

    Hands-on advice for cruising in ice – expedition to Greenland

    • January 25, 2016

    “Turn left after the berg with the Marge Simpson hair-do and continue past the one…

    High adventure in Iceland on board an expedition yacht

    • January 19, 2016

    Cold. We came to Iceland expecting it and the passage to Grimsey Island didn’t disappoint.…

    To the fair isle of Fair Isle for a Fair Isle sweater!

    • November 20, 2015

    Fair Isle sweaters have devotees as diverse as the Prince of Wales and the glamour…

    Cruising Georgia – the wilderness coast of the eastern USA

    • October 29, 2015

    I felt the urge to roar “Ho, ho, break out the grog boys, this is…

    Dismasted in the Southern Ocean, with three small children aboard

    • October 15, 2015

    It was early morning aboard Anasazi Girl. As I exhaled, I could see my breath…

    Isn’t this what family cruising is all about? Kicking back on a gentle ocean passage to Hawaii

    • September 1, 2015

    For ten years my wife, Tiffany, and I had been sailing west round the world…

    An Arctic delivery from north-west Greenland to France provides a chilling tale

    • July 29, 2015

    Sailing in the Arctic is just about as crazy as it sounds. It is bone-chillingly…

    Cruising the Aland islands: small Finnish islands with a big history

    • June 29, 2015

    Our yacht, Arcturus, was moored snugly in a picturesque cove off a friend’s cottage when…

    Cruising in Sweden for long summer days, easy sailing and as much solitude as you might wish

    • June 12, 2015

    Tom Cunliffe details his exploration of Swedish cruising, and dispells the myth of it's being…

    Cruising the River Plate between Uruguay and Argentina is a lesson in weird weather

    • June 4, 2015

    ‘South-easterly, Force 8,’ read the forecast. That wind was going to transform the adjacent coast…

    Yachting World goes to Cape Horn to research our Storm Sailing Techniques series

    • May 14, 2015

    As we drove into Ushuaia from the new airport, Skip Novak pointed out a small…

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