Hundreds of sailors successfully crossed the Atlantic in December as the ARC rally celebrates 40 years

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

Professional skipper Vicky Ellis explains how she and her husband, Laurie, managed a transatlantic emergency with two young children

Colin and Linda Le Conte took their new Princess V50 from Guernsey to Vannes in the boating paradise of the Morbihan

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Mike Reynolds and his wife Nicki sailed over 5,000 miles to the Azores, Canaries and across the Atlantic to the Caribbean while repairing three separate leaks