Vital passage plan

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

You can do it with your eyes shut

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

Celebrating 100 years of the BBC Shipping Forecast, Jane Russell takes us on a series of coastal cruises through the forecast sea areas, exploring some of the special places on offer in each of them