During our Friday evening three hour drive to Aurial, we reassured ourselves that Saturday would dawn still and sunny for our inauguaral 2015 sail. Gladly, it did, though I woke…
Cruising life
Jonty Pearce: One of those days
It was just one of those days. We all have them – days when everything we touch goes wrong and it is best to just give up and go back…
Sailwhipping – why not to fettle in a gale
One of the problems of being a busy GP living three hours away from our boat is that we have to schedule our diaries a long way ahead. Our planned…
Jonty Pearce: Large man in a small hole
Six years of regular use had taken its toll on our toilet, which now leaked. Not only did this give us unpleasantly wet toes, but it meant that the siphon…
Weston Martyr: The £200 Millionaire
Smith stood five foot five in his boots, weighed nearly 10 stone in his winter clothes and an overcoat, and he had a flat chest and a round stomach. Smith…
Sailing charter in Desolation Sound
Avoid the high season and a sailing charter in Desolation Sound can give you a genuine flavour of wilderness cruising. Chris Beeson explores Big Country
Sailing 100 miles without a keel
In 2010 a charter yacht completed three sailing charters and over 100 miles before anyone noticed the keel fell off after she ran aground
A coastal cruise to the Azores
I’ve wanted to cruise the Azores since childhood. Not to make a brief pitstop at Horta or Ponta Delgada on an eastbound transatlantic passage, as thousands of sailors do every…
What is the Yachting Monthly Triangle Race?
The Yachting Monthly Triangle Race runs every two years and is a fun offshore event for cruisers to have a go at short-handed racing
Syzygy: The biggest tides in 18 years
“Last year’s super moon produced monster tides, but this year’s two syzygies will generate even bigger ones” If you think syzygy is a Polish sausage you are, I’m afraid, well…