Star of the sea

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

Britain’s neglect of its maritime heritage has led to shuttered shipyards, ailing fishing fleets and impoverished coastal towns

Anchored in a quiet loch on the west coast of Scotland, Katherine Knight discovered the seabed was barren mud. She raised a small community and set out to replant the underwater desert with life-giving seagrass

Technology has transformed sailing, but was the past better or worse? Andy Du Port shares his views

F ifty years ago, in the corner of a Nottinghamshire lace factory, a young dinghy sailor set out to solve a problem that had long plagued his sport. At the time, sailing clothing for dinghy sailors wa

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