I always enjoy the Southampton Boat Show. I still have a childhood memory of the excitement of Earl’s Court when, taken along as company for my best friend, we gawped…
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John Caldwell: Desperate Voyage
I had a book, How to Sail. Every day I went through it and memorised names and mentally practiced the ritual of getting under sail. The armchair sailors in the…
Marinas offering more fuel choice: FAME-free fuel and white diesel
Marinas around the UK are changing the way they sell diesel in response to demand for different types of fuel and for more information about the fuel
HISWA On Water Amsterdam boat show
It’s like a Southampton show in miniature, yachts in a marina and tents on land. But there’s also an on the water activity area with numerous children playing in Optimist…
Oxen Islands, Flensburg Fjord
All of a sudden we are between the two small islands and the water is very still and very clear. Somewhere ashore, a mule cries, but I have no time…
Jonty Pearce: Drying out
We lowered our Southerly 105 into the waters of the Weaver Navigation at Northwich in 2009, and she has not been lifted out since. We had taken the wise step…
Southampton Boat Show opens this weekend
Europe’s largest festival of boating sails into Southampton this weekend. The 47th Southampton Boat Show opens to the public on Saturday 12 September 2015
Alan Villiers: The War With Cape Horn
Sixty-two days out from Tocopilla, Chile, the Pitlochry, a four-masted barque, 319ft long, was off Terschelling, having breasted a Force 8 gale up the English Channel dashing along at 16…
Mediterranean strewn with refugees’ lifejackets and sunken boats
Yachting Monthly contributor Vyv Cox reports from the Greek islands, currently the front line for refugees seeking safety in Europe
Meet the pilotage experts at the Southampton Boat Show
Sailors who enjoy adventurous cruising can meet the experienced sailors and authors who write the RCCPF pilot books at the Southampton Boat Show