Passage planning may not be of great concern to sailors who do most of their sailing in familiar waters and who follow the main channels to 24 hour-access marinas. With the latest auto-tracking facili

SEAN GLYNN ON NAVIGATING UNFAMILIAR WATERS

WILL HARRIS ON MAKING A NAV PLAN

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

John Payne examines the hardware and software he uses on his boat, and what you need to consider when using electronic charts

Boating inland on rivers and canals brings its ...