The yachtsman who ‘invented’ cruising

Like all good things that happen to us, it was an accident I started writing pilots for the Mediterranean. It all began when I was skippering a flotilla around the Saronic and eastern Peloponnese in G

I’ve had Constance – an American Mason 44 – for 13 years. We’re getting to know each other bit by bit and I’d like to report that she’s everything a yacht should be. Excellent though she is, as the sa

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LETTER OF THE MONTH wins a bottle of ...

It has been 95 years since the publication of the first book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome. Despite the passage of time, it is generally acknowledged as the most well-renowned c

The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the ...