Thousands of miles across the indian ocean

Navigating South Africa’s treacherous coast was challenging for Ivar and Floris, despite almost eight years of sailing around the world

A LONG-ANTICIPATED SOUTH PACIFIC CROSSING CONFOUNDS ANDY SCHELL

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The seasoned polar explorer Franklin lost two vessels and 129 men, himself included, in the late 1840s, searching for the route that would take 3,000nm off the sea route to the Orient. Even though glo

Katy Stickland introduces her non-sailing family to life afloat on a charter holiday in Greece’s spectacular Ionian 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