Over the last seven years Riley Whitelum and Elayna Carausu have advanced from novice sailors…
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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…
Sailing Panama: Exploring idyllic islands just miles from the famous canal
We looked out at the expectant faces before us: kids with footballs in hand, an…
Caribbean sailing: Top tips from two years exploring this cruising paradise
My partner Nick and I spent two years sailing in the Lesser Antilles on our…
Sailing Alaska: A family adventure around the blissfully remote Admiralty Island
Standing on the bow of our borrowed 36ft steel cutter, I watched as my four…
Sailing Hawaii: A leisurely cruise around these picture-perfect volcanic islands
We started our Pacific voyage on board Distant Drummer, our 45ft Liberty cutter-rigged sloop, from…