Boater's biplane rescue at air show

A powerboater and her family sprang into action when a biplane crashed into Poole Harbour on the south coast, narrowly missing yachts, rocks and a chain ferry.

Beachcombing

Searching out landing stages and boat noosts

How To Replace Worn Rudder Bushes

Hedley Ritchie shows how he changed the wobbly bushes on his transom-hung rudder to improve his Westerly Konsort’s steering

Whale-watching in Quebec

Liveaboards Belinda Chesman and Kit McAllister mix culture with cetaceans as they cruise Canada’s great St Lawrence river

Remote paddling

The simplest vessels are so often the best

Mind how you go

It’s time to exorcise those mystic influences

Inland innovation

Wilf Lower relives a European inland adventure

Up a creek with no water to paddle

Mike Humphreys calls on his ingenuity and practical skills to rescue a family marooned on a mud bank by the falling tide

Small boats, big cruising

Rupert Holmes describes a selection of very capable small boats for cruising on a budget

God vakt!

Marsali Taylor recalls every detail of a day aboard the tall ship Sørlandet off the coast of Norway

Boat Electrics 101 course review

Nigel Calder and his team of marine electrics experts have hit the mark, says Rupert Holmes

Viking adventure

Sam Griffiths and his dad camp out under the stars in a 12ft dinghy to enjoy the delights of an historic German waterway

Red herring

Seaspiracy is righteous rather than right

Restoring Andromeda

Clive Robertson swaps a London media career for four years in a boatyard and restores a wooden gaffer from scratch

Steam-bending a new toe rail

Greg Manning shows you how to laminate and steam a plank so that it can be to be bent across its width

The right look

Peter Poland tests the second-hand Swedish production powerboat that just looks ‘right’ to so many ex-sailors

Fleeing a volcanic eruption

Kia Koropp and family up-anchor and grab their face masks when a cloud of black ash descends on the Grenadines

Make or break situation

How you can get snookered when sailing

Old gaffer to Ushant

Max Liberson suffers concussion, ghostly apparitions and crew desertion on a tiring voyage to France

Fitting a new water tank gauge

Measuring your boat’s water capacity is essential for any cruiser, yet is surprisingly hard to get right, discovers Roger Hughes

Fast track to Yachtmaster

When Covid scuppers Josh Lindley’s gap year, he takes on a demanding 5-month sailing course instead to qualify as a skipper

Weather forecast models and apps

Rupert Holmes unpicks the tech behind the data that underpins all weather apps and highlights his favourite software

Short-handed harbour manoeuvres

Øyvind Bordal has some tips for single- and double-handers

Reach for the pie

A new year: how to get fighting fit for sailing

The long port tack to Antigua

Hermione Pattison’s family endures a tough passage when they leave the US on a tumultuous 1,600-mile beat to windward

Becoming a boat owner

Scott Opie buys a £1,300 trailer-sailer and discovers the ups and downs of sailing

The gospel...

Anyone can find themselves out of their depth

Shipwrecked in a 12ft keelboat

Despite a sinking off Portugal, French sailor Yann Quenet hasn’t been put off his microyacht circumnavigation dreams. John Jameson reports

For the simple pleasure of sailing

Looking for performance, elegance and impeccable manners from a weekender? Then the Rustler 33 is your sort of boat, says David Harding

Low-tide checks

Spring tides offer the chance to check out what lies beneath the usual low water mark