SAILING SKILLS Lessons from the ARC Transatlantic skippers reveal what they learned, what gear and tactics worked, and what didn’t Skippers’ tips Clever waypoints • Switch to solar • Tow…

SAILING SKILLS Expert on board: Small boat offshore sailing Is your yacht up to it? Will Bruton finds small boats embarking on big adventures to find out what it really…

Sailing Skills Expert On Board: How to prepare for offhsore cruising 28 tips for your boat and crew from a man who’s sailed 350,000 miles Learning curve Dazed and confused…

“With my MP3 player I can pursue my taste for playing air-guitar on night watch” I have always fancied getting a radio station to make a programme of Car Singalong…

Tom Cunliffe

“If we could persuade the current to flow, it would go on flowing. The problem was, how?”   If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! Good advice generally, especially at…

Dick Durham

“Whoof! Up goes the paraffin in a stinking yellow flame” Gas. The very word is sinister, and I have body-swerved this particular state of matter in various galleys over the…