Having never set foot on a catamaran, when I arrived in Thailand for a 10-day sailing holiday, I had no inkling that this trip would rapidly unfold into one of the most spontaneous, varied, and exhila

SAILING FROM CHILE TO POLYNESIA’S LEGENDARY SHORES WAS AN ADVENTURE ACROSS THE LESS TRAVELLED ROUTES OF THE PACIFIC FOR LAURIC THIAULT

When Charles Lyne bought a 1926 narrow boat in need of restoration, little did he know the rich history tying him, the original owner and this very magazine together…

Anyone who is of a certain age will remember the children’s TV programme Record Breakers which, aside from the encyclopaedic knowledge of earnest right wing libertarian Norris McWhirter, the unlikely

Icebergs, ferocious storms and a mutinous crew feature in Mary Ann Patten’s little-known but epic journey

Fitting-out time is here again. Because I winter up in the Baltic where the sea still sometimes freezes, my season doesn’t really start until May. It was different when I berthed my 22ft wooden sloop