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

The Eastern Sporades I hear you ask? You mean the Sporades as in Skiathos and Skopelos and Skiros. No – I mean the Eastern Sporades as in Khios and Lesvos and Limnos. The first group of islands of whi

Croatia’s charter season – running from May to early October – has quickly become a premier destination for sailors of all levels. Located in the Adriatic Sea, it is remarkably accessible from the UK,

Dieppe is a useful and easy-to-enter point of ...

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

The magical Scottish island of Islay is a place of pilgrimage for whisky lovers, wild swimmers, golfers and walkers. Kathryn Armstrong went to explore