Tag: Currents

Weekly quiz: Nautical chart of St. Paul island

This week in the Vendée Globe, Antoine Cornic anchored off St-Paul Island to repair his broken mainsail track ⛓️‍💥

To put the pictures shared by the TAAF into context, we looked up the SHOM nautical chart for this particular anchorage.

How to prepare for an offshore passage?

What if the hardest part of a long crossing was actually setting off? We’ve all imagined ourselves on a sailboat one day, setting off on an adventure, but very few of us have followed up on the dream.

Have you always dreamed of crossing the English Channel, sailing to the Balearics or making a transatlantic crossing, but never dared to set off?