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

Saare’s new flagship might look conservative, but those lines hide a thoroughly modern cruiser that takes the fight to the yard’s bigger rivals. Theo Stocker went to find out how she measures up

Largest in the range from the well-known Swedish builder, the Maxi 1300 is an easily handled fast cruiser with offshore potential and a nicely-finished interior. David Harding went to meet her...

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It’s a muggy day in Athens. After a transfer bus takes us from the capital to Piraeus Port, we get off in one sweaty heap. But the weight of the merciless climate lifts when a magnificent vessel flood

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