Running aground: essential checks

The key to a smooth-running diesel engine is making sure you look after the fluids, as John Payne explains

Stephanie Jones talks to the skippers in the 2025/26 Mini Globe Race to find out...

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

HOW TO SAIL BETTER

How do you fix boats in the middle of the Atlantic? Ali Wood visits a unique business that deals with everything from broken booms to ARC crews and Interpol

Ashore or afloat, winter cold and damp can have a detrimental effect. Jake Kavanagh looks at options for keeping condensation and moisture at bay