'Mischief' by Martyn Mackrill

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…

Don't miss out on the February 2015 issue of Yachting Monthly

Crash Test Boat - Dismasting

What do you do when your sailing world crashes round your ears? Chris Beeson and the Crash Test crew created a ‘controlled’ dismasting in a gale and put eight rig-cutting…

“With my MP3 player I can pursue my taste for playing air-guitar on night watch” I have always fancied getting a radio station to make a programme of Car Singalong…

Tom Cunliffe

“If we could persuade the current to flow, it would go on flowing. The problem was, how?”   If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! Good advice generally, especially at…

Dick Durham

“Whoof! Up goes the paraffin in a stinking yellow flame” Gas. The very word is sinister, and I have body-swerved this particular state of matter in various galleys over the…

Ocean Cruising Seminar Guildford 6th – 8th March 2015 Hosted by the World Cruising Club, organisers of the annual Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, the Ocean Sailing Seminar returns in March…

Moody 42

We take a closer look at the Moody 42 and see what she's all about