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

Fitting-out time is here again. Because I winter up in the Baltic where the sea still sometimes freezes, my season doesn’t really start until May. It was different when I berthed my 22ft wooden sloop

Anyone who is of a certain age will remember the children’s TV programme Record Breakers which, aside from the encyclopaedic knowledge of earnest right wing libertarian Norris McWhirter, the unlikely

Photographer and keen mountain biker Andy Lloyd sails north of the Arctic Circle to Norway’s northern fjords on the cycle trip of a lifetime

David Myers tests his sanity (and calf muscles) on the Alpenpässe-Weg – a journey of 40 cols and nearly 700km – to discover how the Swiss Alps were lived in and connected long before the combustion engine

Mike and Nicki Reynolds have been cruising almost full-time for 15 years. Finding the time and the money for regular refits is the key