Mitigate the risk of orca encounters

They’ve recently made headlines for interfering with boats, but intelligent, family-focused and remarkably long-lived orcas–better known as killer whales–contain multitudes,

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

News from your cruising area

The second edition of The Ocean Race Europe will start on 10 August from Kiel, Germany. Seven crews sailing their foiling IMOCA60s will embark on a 4,500nm race, linking seven countries in six weeks u

After two years living on a Rival 32 off Shetland, Solene Giraudeau-Potel examines the environmental impact of spending long periods afloat

Intimidated by seawatching? A pelagic trip gets you much closer to those seabirds, writes John Miles