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Solo overboard: An extract from Miles Hordern’s Sailing The Pacific

  • February 17, 2020

Back in the early 1990s, a young man called Miles Hordern sailed his 28ft Kim…

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The inside story of Greta Thunberg’s upwind Atlantic crossing on La Vagabonde

  • February 13, 2020

The sky flashed a blinding white light and a spark came down just a few…

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The adventures of Infinity: Sailing to Antarctica on a 120ft handmade ketch

  • December 4, 2019

“When I say ‘Jump!’ y’all say ‘How high?’. If y’all don’t want to say ‘How…

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Pete Goss transatlantic: Vendee Globe racer embraces life in the slow lane

  • November 18, 2019

Out of the blackness a breaking crest makes itself known with an alien glow of…

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Sailing Antarctica: Record-breaking voyage around the southern continent

  • September 25, 2019

Many believe number seven to be lucky. The seventh day of February proved to be…

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Sailing South Georgia: The inside story of Skip Novak’s 2018 expedition

  • September 18, 2019

We were eight days out from the south coast of South Georgia and once again…

Sailing around Cape Horn on the world’s largest ketch Aquijo

  • August 5, 2019

When asked to help guide the 86m/282ft ketch Aquijo for a cruise in Tierra del…

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Back to basics: Offshore sailing by celestial navigation alone

  • June 18, 2019

I have tattoos of a rooster and a pig on my feet. They’re meant to…

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Unfinished business: Sailing back across the Atlantic in a 22ft sloop

  • May 29, 2019

This is part two of Max Campbell’s account of sailing solo across the Atlantic –…

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Life-changing voyage: Sailing solo across the Atlantic in a 22ft sloop

  • May 28, 2019

On a cloudy midsummer afternoon, my best friend, Harry Scott, and I waved goodbye to…

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Sailing to high latitudes: Everything you need to know before you set sail

  • May 17, 2019

Specialist high latitude yachts invariably have metal hulls and are very solidly built with large…

Lines to Hawaii: a dream cruise chasing the Pacific surf from Tahiti to Honolulu

  • December 12, 2018

I could only laugh. Travis Rice, world-famous snowboarding pioneer, had just jumped into the Pacific…

A voyage for 21st Century madmen? What drives the Golden Globe skippers

  • September 13, 2018

A voyage for madmen, so was the original Sunday Times Golden Globe Race deemed. When…

A test of commitment: a young couple cross the North Atlantic from Michigan to Cornwall

  • August 8, 2018

Luke asked me marry him. My feet didn’t touch the ground, I was airborne in…

The Dark Transat: how to sail across an ocean after total power failure

  • July 4, 2018

A complete power failure mid-ocean is thankfully rare, and it is usually the charging system…

Drastic early days of broken boats and high drama in Whitbread Round the World Race

  • April 24, 2018

This year is the 40th anniversary of the round the world race, now the Volvo…

The amazing voyage of Laura Dekker, the 15-year-old who sailed round the world alone

  • August 17, 2017

In 2009, the English sailing community was galvanised by the arrival on the East Coast…

Beach rescue – Skip Novak aids lone yachtsman recovering yacht from remote shore

  • July 28, 2017

It is rare to leave the Antarctic Peninsula earlier than need be. No matter how…

Mike Peyton on learning to sail – an extract from his autobiography, Quality Time

  • July 6, 2017

Not many readers of Yachting World will have failed to come across the cartoons of…

“What the hell were we doing in this situation?” The true story of the Mutiny recreation for UK television

  • June 23, 2017

We staggered up the beach in a remote part of Timor, our weary legs gave…

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