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Mutiny The Inside Story

Conrad Humphreys on the TV Recreation of the Voyage of William Bligh and 18 Men Cast Adrift After the Mutiny on the Bounty in 1789 

Pacific Bound

Chris and Helen Tibbs Describe How They Planned and Set About Sailing Across the Pacific 

Special Report

Paul Heiney on writing a pilot book.

Extraordinary Boats

Andi Robertson on the Arkema 3 Mini 6.50 

Vancouver Island To New Zealand

From Temperate Rainforest to the Bay of Islands, Tom and Vicky Jackson Report on a Season of Pacific Ocean Sailing.

Trial And Error

There Is No Such Thing as a Dead Cert in Offshore Racing, as This Year’s Rolex Middle Sea Race Proved. Helen Fretter Reports.

Special Report

HELEN FRETTER on weather routeing

The Day Of The Jackal

Quietly Dedicated to His Craft, Armel Le Cléac’h Is Something of an Enigma, but the Vendée Win Revealed His Passion

Creek Crawling

Tony Smith’s Modest Adventures in Traditional Sailing and Navigation Capture the Timeless, Unhurried Essence of East Coast Single-handing

Extraordinary Boats

The 90ft maxi yacht formerly known as Nicorette has had a radical refit, with experimental DSS foils and deck spreaders. She was relaunched as CQS before the 2016 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race

Atlantic High

Chris Tibbs on a Dream Atlantic Crossing and a Heavenly Caribbean Winter.

Live The Dream

Jimmy Cornell on what Can really make or break a Cruising voyage.

America's Cup Diary

Strength and fitness will be a key element for the eventual cup winners, but could kiwi ingenuity still have a part to play?

Then We Sailed Away

Casper Craven On Turning His Plans Into A Successful Family Circumnavigation.

Captain Fantastic

Having Faced Ferocious Gales And Hurricane Force Winds, It Was A Flat Calm Off New Zealand That Nearly Did For Paul Rodgers And Spirit Of Pentax.

Thinking Outside The Box

Emirates Team New Zealand Played Their Own Game From Start To Finish To Win Back The America’S Cup After 14 Years. But How Did They Do It? Elaine Bunting Reports.

Trouble-Free Transatlantic

We Quizzed 254 Skippers Who Took Part in the 2017 Arc Rally About the Spares They Shipped and the Repairs They Made en Route. The Lessons Gleaned Can Benefit Us All.

IMOCA 60s For Volvo Race?

SOLO CLASS VOTES TO ALLOW IMOCA 60S TO BE ADOPTED FOR FULLY CREWED ROUND THE WORLD RACE

Ainslie Signs New Cup Sponsor

Billionaire’s company hits the fast-forward button for British team

Clipper Crews Exhilarated By ‘Nature Unleashed'

What is it like to sail in hurricane force winds in the middle of an ocean?

Masterclass

HOW TO REPAIR SAILS AT SEA

Sydney Hobart Tragedy

Helpless crew can do nothing except watch as one of their own, swept overboard during a capsize, drifts away in a storm.

Grand Soleil 48P Aims to Appeal To Many Tastes

Can one new performance design appeal to many tastes? Toby Hodges explores the ideas and multifarious options offered on this new grand Soleil.

A Famous Survivor Of The 1979 Fastnet Race

Meet the little yacht with a huge heart and history, a famous survivor of the 1979 Fastnet race. Nic Compton sails on assent.

Js sparkle in St Barth

If anyone was in any doubt that 2017 is the year of the Js, the St Barths Bucket in March smashed that truth home.

'I Gave This Race My All'

Days From the Finish of the Vendée Globe, Conrad Colman Was Dismasted. He Was Not Going to Allow This to Finish a Huge Life’s Ambition. This Is His Inspiring Story 

Small Boat, Big Ocean

LEFT MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY SCARRED BUT WITH UNFINISHED BUSINESS, A YOUNG MAX CAMPBELL RETURNS TO HIS 22FT WOODEN SLOOP TO BRING HER BACK ACROSS THE ATLANTIC SINGLE-HANDED

Extraordinary Boats

CROSBIE LORIMER ON SHEARWATER

Explore The Intriguing Ideas Inside This Amazing Yacht

Can a design drawing inspiration from imoca 60s meet the unforgiving demands of high latitudes cruising? David Glenn sails a yacht that aims to achieve just that

A Masterful Race

Capsizes, Crashes, And An Incredible Finish – This Year’s Route Du Rhum Saw Skill Defeat Technology. Helen Fretter Reports