Two-day blow

Richard Ayres makes his first Mayday call when his yacht is dismasted and prop fouled close to the Manacle rocks

John Willis explains the consequences of cresting a bigger-than-expected wave while helming his 25ft motorboat

Paul Dale recounts the lessons he learned rebuilding his Dufour 41 Alexa on the devastated Caribbean island of Grenada in 2004

Simon Ellis completes the final leg of his three-month sabbatical cruise along the South Coast of England

Norman Hadley shares a tale of youthful misadventure, when a navigational mistake on the Cairngorm plateau seemed to defy all constraints of space and time

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