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

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,

Who hasn’t dreamt of sailing around the Caribbean in a private yacht? Well, I’ve found a way to get the experience without having to become – or befriend – a millionaire. I booked on to a week-long cr

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 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

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