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Raja Ampat Deep Dive: Sailing Earth's Richest Reef
Scientists have recorded over 1,500 species of fish and 600 species of coral in Raja Ampat's waters — more marine biodiversity than anywhere else on Earth, reachable only by sea.
Gulf of Thailand Deep Dive: Eastern Andaman Alternative
While Phuket dominates the yacht charter headlines, the Gulf of Thailand unfolds a quieter world of limestone towers, secluded bays, and traditional fishing villages to the east.
Mascarene Islands Deep Dive: Reunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues
Reunion has no safe anchorage and barely a protected marina — yet this volcanic colossus rising 3,069 metres from the sea demands a place on every Indian Ocean passage plan.
Seychelles Deep Dive: Granite Islands of the Indian Ocean
Sailing between Mahé and Praslin through channels of water so clear you can count the parrotfish on the coral below — the Seychelles inner islands are unlike anywhere else.
Read more →Maldives Deep Dive: Atolls Under Sail
The Maldivian lagoons look paradisiacal from above, but the shallow coral heads lurking just under the turquoise surface have grounded many an unwary yacht.
Read more →Red Sea Deep Dive: The Challenging Passage North
Few offshore routes demand as much tactical patience as the Red Sea northbound — the prevailing NNW wind blows directly against you for nearly 2,000 kilometres.
Read more →Turkish Aegean Deep Dive: Gulets and Bays
Dropping anchor in a Bozburun creek where a Byzantine wall emerges from the hillside above the waterline, you understand that Turkey's Aegean coast is an open-air museum that you can only reach by sea.
Read more →Dodecanese Deep Dive: Greece's Eastern Frontier
Standing on the battlements of the Palace of the Grand Master in Rhodes with Turkey visible twelve miles away, you are at the very edge of Europe — and at the beginning of a magnificent sailing frontier.
Read more →Ionian Islands Deep Dive: Greece's Gentlest Sailing
The afternoon breeze fills in from the north at 12 knots every single day in July — the Ionian's Maistros is the most reliable wind in Greece and the reason sailors keep coming back.
Read more →Sicily Deep Dive: Crossroads of the Mediterranean
Sailing under the smoke plume of Stromboli at midnight, the volcano flickering orange against black sky, you understand why Sicily has drawn sailors for three thousand years.
Read more →Corsica Deep Dive: Napoleon's Sailing Island
The Mistral can pin you in Calvi for three days and then release you into a sea of impossible blue — Corsica rewards patience with some of the Med's finest sailing.
Read more →Sardinia Deep Dive: Wild Waters of the West Med
Wind funnels through the Bocche di Bonifacio at 35 knots while turquoise water laps granite outcrops — this is Sardinia at its most elemental.
Read more →Madeira Deep Dive: Atlantic Island Sailing
Funchal marina is cut into the base of a cliff that rises 1,862 metres above sea level — the approach from the southwest at dusk, with the city lights climbing the caldera, is unlike anything else in the Atlantic.
Read more →Canary Islands Deep Dive: ARC and Beyond
Puerto Calero's marina is competent and modern, but the sailing in the Canaries is done between islands on 20-knot beam reaches past lava cliffs — that is the real story.
Read more →Cape Verde Deep Dive: The Atlantic Launchpad
The ARC+ built its entire southern route around Mindelo — and once you have provisioned from the Rua de Lisboa market, you will understand exactly why.
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