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

Having never set foot on a catamaran, when I arrived in Thailand for a 10-day sailing holiday, I had no inkling that this trip would rapidly unfold into one of the most spontaneous, varied, and exhila

This week’s dream: the weird and wonderful wildlife ...

Photographer and keen mountain biker Andy Lloyd sails north of the Arctic Circle to Norway’s northern fjords on the cycle trip of a lifetime

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

Rick Channnon heads off grid for a restorative dose of carnage