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‘What remains of this glorious seafaring age is one of the most beautiful seascapes in the country’

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Skills

Sailing with katabatic winds: what you need to know this season

How to get out of a tight yacht berth without damage

How to get the best from your sailing boat: Learning how to ‘change gears’

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Essential safety shakedown

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Sailing Skills

Sailing with katabatic winds: what you need to know this season

How to get out of a tight yacht berth without damage

How to get the best from your sailing boat: Learning how to ‘change gears’

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Cruising

‘What remains of this glorious seafaring age is one of the most beautiful seascapes in the country’

Crossing the Channel to explore Brittany

A beginner’s guide to the Round the Island Race course

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How To

How to get the best from your sailing boat: Learning how to ‘change gears’

How it works: Taking a noon sight

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Cruising life

‘Suddenly we found ourselves in our child’s headmaster’s office asking if anyone’s ever taken a year off to go sailing?

Zhik Spirit of Adventure: ‘It’s a little bit of heaven – two miles of sand backed by dunes held together by ancient and gnarled juniper trees’

Land and Sea breeze basics: how to make the most of your coastal sailing

‘Our dinghy outboard was being smashed to pieces by the swell’

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Boats

Corsair 880 review: Fantastic, sporty, trailable trimaran

Some boat tests are more memorable than others. Sometimes it’s the boat, sometimes the weather and sometimes a combination of the two. When I tested the Corsair 880, it was…

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We Tested The Best Inflatable Lifejacket and PFD’s for Boating and Sailing

We all have lifejackets on board, but do you know what yours is actually like to use? We test 10 lifejackets to find out

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Book review: Quirky History

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Book Review: Crossing the Thames Estuary

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Book Review: Voyage North

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Book review: Flight of the Shearwater

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Sailors’ Vegan Cookbook: Book review

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