It’s every sailor’s nightmare: holed and taking on water. For Chris Beeson, the unsinkable Etap turned this sinking feeling into an unusual spa session
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A sailing charter in the Greek Ionian
How do you sell sailing to the uninitiated? Charter somewhere warm, dry, safe and beautiful. Chris Beeson takes a novice crew to the Greek Ionian
Maxi 1200 photo gallery
Interested in the Maxi 1200? Here's a photo gallery with extra images of the Maxi 1200 during her sail trials
Helicopter rescue at sea
A crewmember needs a helicopter rescue at sea, an airlift to hospital. You’ve radioed a Mayday and now there’s a helicopter overhead. What next? Tom Cunliffe reports
How an 8st crew can recover a 20st MOB
Could a wife save her husband’s life? Yes, but the key is a tried, tested and trusted plan, says Chris Beeson
A sailor’s guide to whales and dolphins
Spotting wild whales and dolphins while sailing is a joy, says marine conservationist Anna Moscrop
Jonty Pearce: Head In The Clouds
I worry about clouds. Not the fine grey fluffy ones that hog the sky and deny us our vitamin D, or the dark ones that so love to drench us,…
Tom Cunliffe podcast – Summer 2015
Have you noticed the way the world seems to spin a lot faster in the first few hours after returning from a cruise? It struck me hard when I came…
Dick Durham – podcast Summer 2015
There is a cartoon drawn by Mike Peyton that sticks in my mind. Two boats are sailing abeam from an anchorage in light conditions. The helmsman of the one nearest…
Libby Purves podcast – Summer 2015
I wrote a novel years ago, Casting Off, in which a furious wife, at the end of a scratchy weekend a deux, watches her husband carrying his bag up the…