John Muir feels his way in fog down the East Coast In the summer of 1913 and is saved from the shoals by a novice crew’s hearing
Martyn Mackrill
John Caldwell: Desperate Voyage
Stranded in Panama after the war, John Caldwell took a 20ft boat solo across the Pacific in a desperate bid to re-join his new bride in Australia. But first, he…
Thor Heyerdahl: Sailing like an Egyptian
Thor Heyerdahl set out to sail the Atlantic in a papyrus boat, its design copied straight from the pyramids of the pharaohs.
Bill Tilman aground in an iceberg alley
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…
Martyn Mackrill royally acknowledged
A Yachting Monthly illustrator has been appointed official artist to the world’s most prestigious yacht club in the year that it celebrates its bi-centenary. Martyn Mackrill, 53, whose original paintings…