Celebrating 100 years of the BBC Shipping Forecast, Jane Russell takes us on a series of coastal cruises through the forecast sea areas, exploring some of the special places on offer in each of them

My last email ended with this: We are both very much looking forward to our Tasman Sea crossing to Nelson, New Zealand. The sea with its infinite cleansing powers should wash away all that earth life

OWN UP TO YOUR SAILING SINS

RUSSIA’S ‘GREY ZONE’ ACTIVITY IN THE BALTIC, FROM GPS INTERFERENCE TO AGGRESSIVE SHADOWING, IS UNSETTLING SAILORS. WILL THIS BE THE NEW NORMAL, ASKS ELAINE BUNTING?

I never sailed the Amazon and I never reached Brazil Oh, I’d love to roll to Rio, some day before I’m old! (Songs of Rudyard Kipling) We’d been to Rio de Janeiro once before and many years earlier, by

18-year-old soldier Craig Wood was on patrol in ...