Don’t let floods keep you at home – as long as the water is warm there’s no better time to be out on the bank, trying for a big whisker

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

● A couple of miles inland from the ...

Prompted by this Walker piece, Keith looks back at early methods of attaching floats

Say “Rainforest”, and the average sailor will conjure up an image of some exotic tropical landscape covered in jungle that is home to a diverse array of plants and animals. I first came across such a

Gilbert Park swaps his ageing Mitchell 28 for a soft-riding Seaward 29