For those dreaming of the joys of owning a yacht, Nick Ridley offers encouragement as well as a look at the harsher reality of financing your dreams

My motives for this trip were varied. I was on the committee that vetted applications for the Ocean Cruising Club’s Challenge Grant when Project Manaia had applied for a grant to support their environ

I was shocked in a London hostelry recently to discover that our once-proud nation has been reduced to forming an orderly queue for drinks at the pub bar. It hasn’t happened in my local yet, and all i

T HE MIDDLE OF MAY, A WARM MORNING ...

OWN UP TO YOUR SAILING SINS

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