Classic walkboat-chasing in the broads

THE BIG RIDE

Celebrating 100 years of the BBC Shipping Forecast, Jane Russell takes us on a series of coastal cruises through the forecast sea areas, exploring some of the special places on offer in each of them

As we settled into our charter boat, a Beneteau 42, on its Newport, Rhode Island mooring, I checked the weather forecast and feared we might not make our planned destination of Nantucket island. Verit

Simon Ellis completes the final leg of his three-month sabbatical cruise along the South Coast of England

Roger Morgan-Grenville celebrates the shapeshifting glories of Britain’s sea paths, evanescent byways revealed by the tides

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