YACHTING MONTHLYS CONFESSIONS (ADLARD COLES)

For over 25 years, yachtsmen have clamoured to tell the world about their most embarrassing exploits and their most shameful blunders in Yachting Monthly’s Confessions column, and the cream of the crop are collected here in the hope that the rest of us can learn from their mistakes instead of our own - or at least have a good laugh at their expense. Worse things really do happen at sea.