‘our dinghy outboard was being sm ashed to pieces by the swell’

Paul Dale recounts the lessons he learned rebuilding his Dufour 41 Alexa on the devastated Caribbean island of Grenada in 2004

Richard Ayres makes his first Mayday call when his yacht is dismasted and prop fouled close to the Manacle rocks

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How do you fix boats in the middle of the Atlantic? Ali Wood visits a unique business that deals with everything from broken booms to ARC crews and Interpol

Zoran Glozinic devises a way to simplify a tricky job

John Willis explains the consequences of cresting a bigger-than-expected wave while helming his 25ft motorboat