Phil Sampson and Roger Hughes take a look at 12 of the best sailing watches available with functions for racing and cruising sailorsPhoto: GarminJust as tablets and even smartphones have revolutionised how sailors use multifunction displays and instruments, so the …
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s wrecked ship the Endurance, one of the most famous explorer vessels ever, has been discovered in the Weddell Sea 107 years after it sankThe Endurance was shipwrecked in 1915 on an expedition to the Antarctic after it …
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We ask top sailors and marine industry gurus to choose the coolest and most innovative yachts of our times. Dutch racer Bouwe Bekking nominates The Snipe dinghy. “I would take a complete crazy thing: a Snipe. I think it’s an …
Tom Cunliffe introduces and extract from Taken by the Wind – Memoirs of a 1970s pacific voyage, which reveals a time when sailors had to rely on their own pilotage skills for safe passageMike Jacker is a retired orthopaedic surgeon …
Chris Nicholson nominates the Volvo Open 70, Camper with Emirates Team New Zealand, as his Coolest Yacht. This is the yacht he skippered to 2nd place in the 2011/12 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, setting a new 24-hour monohull …
This year’s Atlantic Rally for Cruisers proved a reminder that no ocean crossing is ever straightforward. Rachael Sprot and Helen Fretter reportWhen the 2021 Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) set off from Gran Canaria on November 21, there was one …
