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A Dufour 41 sailing hard on the wind

‘Dead ahead were the bows of an unlit freighter’

  • July 30, 2021

Paul Dale has a harrowing near-miss with an unlit freighter at night while on a 110-mile voyage from Trinidad to the Grenadines

Shredded water impeller from an engine

‘Years of shredded water impeller bits had clogged the pipe’

  • July 29, 2021

Martin Fuller lightens his wallet before discovering the solutions to an avoidable problem that had been building for years - shredded water impeller bits

Sailing through a storm: One man’s tale of near disaster

  • June 23, 2021

Eighteen months ago, I left East Anglia in my Westerly GK-29 cruiser-racer, bound for Istanbul. My progress was naturally slow at first as I had never sailed before but, by…

British yachtsman Nigel Fox with the PLB which saved his life

How a PLB saved my life when I was knocked overboard

  • May 24, 2021

Solo yachtsman Nigel Fox's life was saved by a PLB when he was knocked overboard by stormy seas off the north coast of Australia

A yacht towing another boat

‘Towing risks damage, so plan the process carefully’

  • April 28, 2021

Ken Endean advises 'Consider, Communicate and Connect' when towing, particularly when under sail, and reflects on lessons learned from six incidents

Wayne Palmer shares his experiences of buying his first boat - a J109

‘Buying my first boat taught me a hell of a lot’

  • April 2, 2021

From car-crash viewings to wasted journeys of hundreds of miles, Wayne Palmer shares the steep learning curve of buying his first boat

A family on a yacht

‘The hurricane had us confined to the aft cabin for 24 hours’

  • March 24, 2021

Holly Turner shares some lessons from a turbulent hurricane season in the Caribbean with a 10-month-old baby and Scrumpy the Jack Russell

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Stuck head-first in a cockpit locker – a true story

  • January 21, 2021

Qualified marine engineer Martin Blount shares the terrifying ordeal of getting stuck upside down aboard his boat while working alone, on a river mooring

A yacht storm sailing through the ocean

Storm sailing: ‘The boat was slammed over and water poured in’

  • January 11, 2021

Randall Reeves leaves the storm jib in its bag while braving the Southern Ocean to prove that speed is safety when storm sailing

A container ship approached a sinking catamaran in the Atlantic

‘I was rescued at sea 13 times, but this was the worst experience by far’

  • July 13, 2020

Veteran power and sailing yachtsman Dag Pike reflects on his multiple experiences of being saved offshore

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