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The 2024 edition of the Reeds PBO Small Craft Almanac, published in association with Practical Boat Owner, is now available

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A BUSINESSiQ round-up of the key moves at influential companies around the North East - who’s in and who’s out

Yachting Monthly 0shares Mervyn Wheatley looks ahead to his sixth OSTAR, now re-scheduled to take place in 2021, and ponders the changes in sailing through his decades-long career Mervyn Wheatley had sailed 18 Atlantic crossing ahead of the 2017 OSTAR. Credit: Paul Gibbins For Mervyn Wheatley, the 2020 Original Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race (OSTAR) was to be his swan song, his final race. But as with much sport during the pandemic, the OSTAR, due to set off from...

Yachting Monthly 0shares Breaking waves and lurking rocks have earned some British tide races a fearsome reputation. Dag Pike explains how to navigate them The British Isles lies in one of the most turbulent maritime regions in the world. Not only are our shores battered by the depressions that roll in with frequent monotony during the winter months, but every 12 hours the tide turns and billions of litres of water move in and out from our shores. This huge water flow ...