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

Tim Steel hones his skills with a proper rough-water test

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Icebergs, ferocious storms and a mutinous crew feature in Mary Ann Patten’s little-known but epic journey

Anyone who is of a certain age will remember the children’s TV programme Record Breakers which, aside from the encyclopaedic knowledge of earnest right wing libertarian Norris McWhirter, the unlikely