Hard knocks

None of us plans to be caught in a gale, but if it happens then both the boat and the crew must cope. Jake Kavanagh speaks to Jester Challenge skippers and asks how they get ready for stormy weather

TOM CUNLIFFE SIGNS OFF WITH THE TALE OF ONE THE GREATEST FEATS OF SEAMANSHIP OF ALL TIME: THE FIRST SIGHTING OF AMERICA

The seasoned polar explorer Franklin lost two vessels and 129 men, himself included, in the late 1840s, searching for the route that would take 3,000nm off the sea route to the Orient. Even though glo

A LONG-ANTICIPATED SOUTH PACIFIC CROSSING CONFOUNDS ANDY SCHELL

LAURIC THIAULT CAPTURES A SLOW VOYAGE THROUGH THE MOST REMOTE CORNERS OF PATAGONIA

Nic Compton debates whether to sail his ketch Zelda through the Corinth Canal or around the exposed coast of the Peloponnese, the entrance to the Underworld in Greek mythology