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Cruising
World cruise: The secrets of 200k mile cruisers
Since 1981, when we bought our wooden, varnished, 39ft Sparkman & Stephens sloop Sunstone, my…
Pacific castaway: Marooned for months in a pandemic
Immersed and weightless in the warmth of the endless blue, I looked down and could…
Seychelles anchorage: Idyllic Indian Ocean sailing
It had been a long time coming but after many days of quarantine onboard, finally…
Sailing La Vagabonde explain their multihull criteria
Over the last seven years Riley Whitelum and Elayna Carausu have advanced from novice sailors…
Golden Vanity: The rebirth of an artists’ boat
The lockdown of spring 2020 prompted all kinds of unusual purchases. People bought puppies, bikes,…
South Atlantic ocean: A crossing in mid-winter on Pelagic Australis
There was a crunching sound underfoot as we loaded Pelagic Australis with provisions for the…
Atlantic crossing in a Pandemic? ARC 2020 crews tell their stories
The Covid-19 pandemic derailed the plans of around two-thirds of the crews planning to take…
Sailing Newfoundland: Swan 59 skipper shares his summer on ice
“Humpback, 300 metres. Hard to port, Tom!” Icebear encountered her first whales in Cabot Strait,…
Sailing El Salvador: Captivating landscapes make this a must-see cruising destination
We dropped anchor in the middle of the night and waited until daybreak for our…
Cruising New Caledonia: Spectacular sailing in the French corner of the Pacific
“OK, this time you’ll do it, right?” Wietze asks, full of hope that this time…
Sailing Hong Kong: So much more than just a glittering Asian metropolis
We had just dropped the anchor in a small bay, and I was standing on…
Locked out and locked in: World cruisers share their COVID-19 sailing dilemmas
When the world abruptly locked down in March, many cruisers were caught out, and soon…
Pete Goss’s lessons learned from two and a half years sailing around the world
After two and a half years and over 17,000 miles of cruising from the UK…
Cruising Colombia: An extraordinarily friendly country for visiting sailors
If I asked you for five words to describe Colombia I bet they wouldn’t include…
Cruising Australia: Everything you need to know about sailing Down Under
“It doesn’t matter where you choose, you can’t go wrong in Australia. There are so…
Cruising Patagonia: An extract from Winter in Fireland by Nicholas Coghlan
Nicholas Coghlan circumnavigated in the late 1980s with Jenny, his wife, on their small yacht,…
Sailing Vancouver Island: Braving bears and bad weather on the inside-out route
At 94 years of age, my father, Donald, still hates sitting in harbour. He lives…
Hurricane season: Cruising and mooring options from Maine to Grenada
The hurricane zone extends from Cape Hatteras or the Florida/Georgia border to Grenada, so cruisers…
Sailing Fiji to New Zealand: The ultimate tradewinds test?
We who write for the yachting press are deluged with tales of extraordinary achievement. Although…