A path between thorns

John Willis explains the consequences of cresting a bigger-than-expected wave while helming his 25ft motorboat

Simon Ellis completes the final leg of his three-month sabbatical cruise along the South Coast of England

As we settled into our charter boat, a Beneteau 42, on its Newport, Rhode Island mooring, I checked the weather forecast and feared we might not make our planned destination of Nantucket island. Verit

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Norman Hadley shares a tale of youthful misadventure, when a navigational mistake on the Cairngorm plateau seemed to defy all constraints of space and time