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

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DETLEF JENS has been sailing since childhood and ...

OWN UP TO YOUR SAILING SINS

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

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