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According to the AngelNav app on my iPad, the GPS reading in my study this afternoon is accurate to less than two metres. Hooray for that! This sort of mind-blistering precision breeds innate confiden

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

Trevor Martin recalls a testing voyage that taught him almost all he needed to know for the next 20 years of sailing

Gin, witches, regicide, boats, nudists, an Egyptian curse, Spitfires, the invention of windsurfing and more writers and vineyards than you can shake a fishing rod at: this beloved English county has it all. Here are 13 stories you may never have heard about Hampshire

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