Hundreds of laid-up yachts were holed, crushed or simply dashed to kindling in the Great Tide which flooded both sides of the North Sea 70 years ago this year, drowning…

Women in sailing: A woman wearing a red jacket, sunglasses and a sun visa preparing to use a winch

Helena Schneider is an experienced solo offshore skipper and sailing instructor, and shares her experience of sailing with mixed crews

Sailing is evolving. One of mankind’s oldest forms of transport, the boats we sail now have developed incrementally over centuries, and occasionally in great leaps. The foiling catamarans of last…