The confessional

I’ve had Constance – an American Mason 44 – for 13 years. We’re getting to know each other bit by bit and I’d like to report that she’s everything a yacht should be. Excellent though she is, as the sa

Norman Hadley shares a tale of youthful misadventure, when a navigational mistake on the Cairngorm plateau seemed to defy all constraints of space and time

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

News from your cruising area

Simon Ellis completes the final leg of his three-month sabbatical cruise along the South Coast of England

Like all good things that happen to us, it was an accident I started writing pilots for the Mediterranean. It all began when I was skippering a flotilla around the Saronic and eastern Peloponnese in G