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Small boat angler Tim Macpherson looks at how modern fish finders and chartplotters are changing the way we find fish, navigate and manage our boats

DETLEF JENS has been sailing since childhood and ...

Fitting-out time is here again. Because I winter up in the Baltic where the sea still sometimes freezes, my season doesn’t really start until May. It was different when I berthed my 22ft wooden sloop

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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