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The Jeanneau Sun Light 30 on water

Jeanneau Sun Light 30 Review: A Family Cruiser With Racing Influence

  • September 24, 2024

When the big French production builders started launching boats like the Jeanneau Sun Light 30 in the mid-to-late 1980s, they got the British builders worried. I was working in the…

‘Why I went over to the dark side’ – Pete Goss

  • September 20, 2024

Falling off a ladder teaches you many things. For a start the NHS treats a one-metre fall as serious, so my fall, from above first-floor level, should have had spectacular…

At New Grimsby in the sunshine

Isles of Scilly Storm Dodging: ‘We had to gain steerage way from a standing start while neighbouring boats were dancing around wildly’

  • September 18, 2024

Mary and I are very fond of the Isles of Scilly. In fact, we regard the archipelago as the most delightful cruising destination to be found anywhere around the British…

‘If someone had offered me a third of the asking price to buy the boat back, I would have bitten their hand off’ – Monty Halls

  • September 17, 2024

I sat back on the saloon roof, leaned against the mast, sipped my beer, and revelled in the moment. Here I was, at long last, perched on my very own…

How to survive in a liferaft should the worst happen

  • September 13, 2024

You have no idea how frightening it is to step off a sinking yacht and into a liferaft. There is just you, the raft and whatever you have managed to…

‘Boat builders seem to take pride in making stuff tricky to get to’

  • September 12, 2024

They say that the definition of cruising is ‘fixing your boat in exotic locations’. Well, crouched, sweating, in the aft heads using a head torch and a mirror to extract…

‘Never before have I sailed in such wild weather’ – struck by a ‘weather bomb’ near New Zealand

  • September 11, 2024

Sammy, my sister, was ready to go. She couldn’t wait to put on her skipper’s hat and head off on a great adventure. It was 1998 when offshore sailing was…

Excess 11 with grey skies

Excess 11 review: A very rare sub-40ft cruising catamaran

  • September 10, 2024

Catamarans don’t belong in the UK, I hear you cry. If you’ve been put off by towering topsides, the vast beam and ideas about how much it might cost to…

Sailing the Faroes: ‘It’s a challenging but very rewarding cruising area, with endless hills and fantastic views’

  • September 10, 2024

Our way of life on board is best described as “Vi tar det lugnt,” Swedish for “we take it easy.” We travel without a specific plan or target; the voyage…

Sailing the Orkneys: ‘Bryan saw a tall black fin breaking the water, followed by another – it was a pair of orcas’

  • September 9, 2024

Sitting on my living-room floor surrounded by tide tables, pilot books, and almanacs, one part of my upcoming voyage around Britain began to excite me more than the rest. I…

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