Katy Stickland

Deputy Editor

Katy Stickland

With a journalism career spanning more than 20 years, Katy Stickland has worked for local newspapers, the BBC, regional Caribbean publications and Tobago News – the island’s only newspaper. She ran a marine services company in Tobago with her husband John, living aboard their S&S 34 in Store Bay, before returning to the UK. She previously wrote for the Yachting and Boating World website. Katy is also a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer.

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A cruising yacht anchored

  • June 29, 2020

What’s the real price of long-term cruising? Accountants Christine Muir and Keith Hunt reveal their meticulously 
kept 12-year balance sheet, and how to afford the lifestyle

A skipper in a red jacket comparing paper and electronic charts while passage planning

  • June 24, 2020

We tend to consider paper charts the most reliable means of passage planning, but both electronic and paper options offer different useful features, as Bruce Jacobs explains

Boats anchored at Porth Conger at St Agnes, Isle of Scilly

  • June 15, 2020

St Agnes is a magical place, the last point of land before the Bishop Rock Lighthouse and the open Atlantic Ocean beyond. It is really two islands, the main island…

A BTC-22 on the Solent

  • June 12, 2020

As the first sporty 22-footer we have seen from a British builder in a long time, the BTC-22 is set to fill a significant gap in the market, as David…

Blondie Hasler at the start of the 1964 OSTAR

  • June 10, 2020

Blondie Hasler's biographer Ewen Southby-Tailyour looks at the origin of the Corinthian race and its enduring legacy