Richard Ayres makes his first Mayday call when his yacht is dismasted and prop fouled close to the Manacle rocks

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John Willis explains the consequences of cresting a bigger-than-expected wave while helming his 25ft motorboat

Paul Dale recounts the lessons he learned rebuilding his Dufour 41 Alexa on the devastated Caribbean island of Grenada in 2004

On Alec Frydman’s first-ever voyage as a commercial fisherman in October 2023, fishing for albacore tuna off the coast of Washington State, his boat sank 20 miles offshore and his captain was drowned. This is how he survived