Stranded in Panama after the war, John Caldwell took a 20ft boat solo across the Pacific in a desperate bid to re-join his new bride in Australia. But first, he…
Cruising life
Thor Heyerdahl: Sailing like an Egyptian
Thor Heyerdahl set out to sail the Atlantic in a papyrus boat, its design copied straight from the pyramids of the pharaohs.
Bill Tilman aground in an iceberg alley
Running aground in a yacht is never a pleasant experience. To do so off a remote island in the Svalbard archipelago surrounded by icebergs, as Bill Tilman did, can easily…
Me and my boat: Moody 42
Many years ago, after sailing several thousand miles in our tiny old 24-footer, my wife and I returned to Blighty to look for a new boat with enough room for…
Lightning: why we were struck
A personal investigation into how and why a catamaran was hit by lightning
Sailing in the U-boats’ deadly wake
Read an extract from Keith Dovkants' novel, recounting the dramatic moments when a Q-ship engages a U-boat...
Listen to Mike Peyton’s new shanty East Coast Old Gaffer
Special performance by The Brandy Hole Shantymen
Solo voyager Roger Taylor and his boat Mingming II
Roger Taylor's extraordinary solo small boat voyages have taken him to the highest latitudes so why is he swapping his Corribee for a slightly bigger Achilles?
Cruising Log
Some more of your own cruising yarns that we didn't have space to publish in the magazine
‘I collided with Plymouth breakwater’
RNLI video to accompany article in Yachting Monthly May issue