Editorial - What if the RNLI wanted a pay rise?
Subscriptions - UK readers save money on the mag
Tell tales - STI, Thalatta, London Boat Show
Niki Ferryman - Equator etiquette
Des Sleightholme - The revenge of the seafood diet
Close quarters: David MacGregor: history man
Boatman's notes - Liquid nails and white lead
Lazarette - Torch, oar lock, calendars
Books - Sparkman & Stephens; Scone
Getting afloat - Tall Ships; Rampart
Class notes - National 12
Boats for sale - Now available on-line, too
Marine directory - All the contacts in the business
Calendar - Your 2003 diary and beyond
Useful addresses - Address and phone numbers of those featured
Readers' services
Letters
Sternpost - Morgan reflects on romance


WORKSHOP:

A-Z - Jim Hazel explains about beams and beam shelves
Wood selection - The ed chooses a bit of teak for Nereis
Replacing frames - Getting steamed up with a clinker dinghy


FEATURES:

Nancy Blackett - We didn't mean to go to sea

Butcher Boy - San Diego delivery boat

My 8 and me - A womanly passion

Morgan Giles: Pt2 - Starting again after the war

Hebridean Yard - John MacAulay's business

Jean de la Lune - A rough ride to Norway

Classic museum - Working boats of the fjords

Design competition - We reveal the winner

Houseboats - Life on retired classics

Motorboat museum - How it grew, and grew

Real Boats - A Cornish tosher

Cover: Nancy Blackett, the 1931 Hillyard inspired Arthur Ransome's North Sea tales