Centenary of conor o’brien’s pioneering circumnavigation

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

In conversation, Harald is a modest, mild-mannered man and to hear him outlining his 2022 cruise is the perfect expression of that. “It was mid-May that I left Medemblik for Den Oever and then to Texe

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The British Yachting Awards celebrate the finest of both the cruising and racing worlds. This year it offers recognition at the end of an extraordinary year, which has seen sailing deliver an astonish

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