After buying a Dufour Classic 35, Chris Humphries experiences a series of hardships when trying to sail his new boat home from Conwy to Plymouth
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Boat steering failure on a lee shore: one sailor shares his experience
With the pressure of winter storms on the horizon, Pete Nielsen is struggling to make meaningful progress south to Florida, and then the boat steering fails
Burst coolant hose: ‘I had spares for everything except this’
Edward Vivian experiences a burst coolant hose while sailing from Guernsey to Plymouth in deteriorating conditions
Mid-Atlantic rescue: Magic Dragon assists ARC crew
A mid-Atlantic Mayday sends chills down the spine of ARC crew member Craig Gray
Broken mast in the North Atlantic: one solo sailor’s story
They say bad things happen in threes. Sailing solo in the North Atlantic, Rob Henshall loses windvane self steering, then electronic autopilot and wonders what’s next
‘We were within seconds of striking rocks in the Swinge’
Octogenarian adventurer Peter Baylis gets a scare in the Channel Islands when sailing to Alderney via the Swinge
Surviving a storm in harbour: lessons learned
After surviving a storm in harbour while moored in Sicily, Trevor McIlwaine asks himself - do I really like to be beside the seaside?
Antarctic sailing: cruising amongst the ice with an electric drive
Manuel Pardi and crew travel to Antarctica and back without fossil fuels on a 28ft steel-hulled yacht – a poignant trip that honoured the voyage and life of history-making Argentine…
Battery gas: A close shave for one sailing couple
Concerned about a ‘hessian-like’ smell, Pat Buckley-Jones and his wife Ruth discovered battery gas was escaping from their overcharged device
Dismasted offshore: how one man got his boat home
When Jock Hamilton’s 33ft Wauquiez Gladiateur dismasted offshore, 500 miles from land, he created a jury rig using a Laser dinghy mast, sails and oars, before sailing 1,500 miles home