Now we’re in the midst of autumn, with winter a whisker away, it’s good to make plans and look forward to the return of sunny days in spring. We’re big fans of Eastbourne on the south coast, which is

BICTON ARENA (2) 22–26 October

Britain’s neglect of its maritime heritage has led to shuttered shipyards, ailing fishing fleets and impoverished coastal towns

A couple of years back I was writing a guide entitled the A-Z of multihulls and I felt I had done a pretty decent job of sorting through the various different flavours of cruising multihulls and makin

Don’t be fooled by the beautiful baby blue skies in these pictures: the first day of this annual spectacular on the seven-mile beach where JG Parry-Thomas set a new Land Speed Record in Babs in 1926 (

Bob Cooper of Macclesfield, Cheshire remembers: From an early age, I have always loved reading and writing. My best subject at school was English to the detriment of maths, and I managed to become top