Knowledge gained from sailing to the azores and beyond

When I took my first brick-like Magellan GPS receiver out of its box back in the mid-1990s, I was in Wick, NE Scotland. The fog was thick enough to walk on. Filled with a confidence I had never had be

MIDWAY ON A SOLO CRUISING CIRCUMNAVIGATION, JAMES FREDERICK SHARES LEARNINGS FROM SAILING AROUND THE WORLD ON A 30FT YACHT

Years ago before GPS or Loran C made navigation a whole lot easier, I was headed up this coast on an overnight passage from the Strait of Messina to Camerota on the underbelly of Capo Palinuro. I was

DO YOU DREAM OF SAILING AROUND THE WORLD? A CIRCUMNAVIGATION CAN MEAN DIFFERENT THINGS FOR DIFFERENT CRUISERS: JANNEKE KUYSTERS GUIDES YOU THROUGH YOUR ULTIMATE ROUTE PLANNING

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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