Understanding buoyage and how to use it is ...

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

Tony Moss and his wife Marike cross the North Sea to sail around Britain anticlockwise, braving the Scottish summer along the way

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

Whether your tank is half full or half empty, knowing what’s in your tanks and trusting your means of checking is critical to successful cruising, writes Theo Stocker

Measuring time using the Earth’s rotation was always an imprecise business, so now we do it using the ‘tick’ of an atom