So if all your nautical knowledge comes from books, you might be mispronouncing quite a few common terms (or at least not ...

The tear happened as his yacht Vulnerable gybed (swinging a sail or boom) twice under autopilot, which controls the boat's direction, in about 35mph (56km/h) winds off the Azores. The mainsail was ...

Bob Shepton relates a trip down the Atlantic from Agadir in Morocco to the Cape Verde Islands in the south Atlantic.

British built Klioub sank in December 1868 with the loss of 50 lives off the coast of Turkey after a collision with a steamer ...

The sailor, who has dreamed of sailing in the Vendee Globe since childhood, said was nursing his yacht back to the finish in France under two jibs (foremast sails). "It's a change of story and I'm ...