Avoid the high season and a sailing charter in Desolation Sound can give you a genuine flavour of wilderness cruising. Chris Beeson explores Big Country
Cruising life
Sailing 100 miles without a keel
In 2010 a charter yacht completed three sailing charters and over 100 miles before anyone noticed the keel fell off after she ran aground
A coastal cruise to the Azores
I’ve wanted to cruise the Azores since childhood. Not to make a brief pitstop at Horta or Ponta Delgada on an eastbound transatlantic passage, as thousands of sailors do every…
What is the Yachting Monthly Triangle Race?
The Yachting Monthly Triangle Race runs every two years and is a fun offshore event for cruisers to have a go at short-handed racing
Syzygy: The biggest tides in 18 years
“Last year’s super moon produced monster tides, but this year’s two syzygies will generate even bigger ones” If you think syzygy is a Polish sausage you are, I’m afraid, well…
John Muir – Listening for the Spitway Bell Buoy in fog
John Muir feels his way in fog down the East Coast In the summer of 1913 and is saved from the shoals by a novice crew’s hearing
The best sail plans for crossing an ocean
Sailing across an ocean, there are myriad sail plans to choose from to power you across an ocean. We spoke to six ARC 2014 finishers to find out what works
John Caldwell: Desperate Voyage
Stranded in Panama after the war, John Caldwell took a 20ft boat solo across the Pacific in a desperate bid to re-join his new bride in Australia. But first, he…
Thor Heyerdahl: Sailing like an Egyptian
Thor Heyerdahl set out to sail the Atlantic in a papyrus boat, its design copied straight from the pyramids of the pharaohs.
Bill Tilman aground in an iceberg alley
Running aground in a yacht is never a pleasant experience. To do so off a remote island in the Svalbard archipelago surrounded by icebergs, as Bill Tilman did, can easily…