At the bottom of the north sea, out of air, with no hope of rescue

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

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“HAUNTED BY THE SPECTRE OF THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION”

I went from rock bottom to mer-mazing

Norman Hadley shares a tale of youthful misadventure, when a navigational mistake on the Cairngorm plateau seemed to defy all constraints of space and time