The home-built globe 5.80

Rupert Holmes looks at one of the most desirable cruising yachts of the Sadler era, as well as some alternative boats

Most online pundits are wrong and you don’t need a long keel to go offshore, reckons Mike Morgan

Back in the 1970s multihull saillors were generally a pretty esoteric lot. It didn’t help that Donald Crowhurst ushered in the new decade with his tragic exploits in his Teignmouth Electron trimaran.

Serial boat refitter Ross Barrett promised he wouldn’t start another project but the temptation of a Hershine 37 trawler yacht proved too hard to resist

Greg Manning sails his Fairey Atalanta from Arisaig in the West Highlands to the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides

“The big problem I had was doldrums. I ...