Keep calm and ignore the armada

Gin, witches, regicide, boats, nudists, an Egyptian curse, Spitfires, the invention of windsurfing and more writers and vineyards than you can shake a fishing rod at: this beloved English county has it all. Here are 13 stories you may never have heard about Hampshire

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Sceptred Isle: A New History of the Fourteenth ...

Trevor Martin recalls a testing voyage that taught him almost all he needed to know for the next 20 years of sailing

Bill Barna cruises in company to Guernsey, Jersey, France and back

Prior to 1920, yacht cruising was an occupation indulged in by precious few. If you wanted to go sailing, you raced off Cowes with a professional crew and captain. The concept of slumming it in some s