COVER STORIES:

Images of summer - A celebration, in pictures, of warm days, long evenings and brisk sails to keep the spirits up in the dark months of winter
Danger zone? - Big ships v little yachts - who keeps the peace? Alison Molyneaux visits Southampton VTS and Portsmouth QHM
Dreaming of a white Christmas - Yachtsmen's celebrations around the world from Annapolis to the tropics, Australia to Tierra del Fuego
Yule regret it - Des Sleightholme tells it like it is for shivering British yotties
Keeping to the plot - Duncan Kent reviews the latest PC-based chart plotters
Nicked in the Nicobars - John Roberts falls foul of the law in these remote islands

Also in this issue:

Maurice Griffiths remembered - Dick Durham and Des Sleightholme reflect on the career of YM's longest serving Editor
Down the tube - Neil Calder finds there is more in hoses than an internal diameter
Onshore pilot - Aldeburgh - What do the Ore and Alde hold in store for visiting yachtsmen? Join Janet Harber on a cruise upriver
Books for Christmas - Winter reading reviewed
Blue water letter - Hugh Marriott discovers three golden rules, a paddle paradox and a cruising plumber
Practical Seamanship - Losing your rudder, buoying an anchor, Tom Cunliffe's Yachtmaster Class, Readers' tips, and all the regulars
Cruising up the beach - Ken Endean solves a French riddle of the sands as he discovers Havre de St Germain
It always rains out there ...except when you want it to. Jack Gush and Tom Follett run out of water in mid-Atlantic
Christmas presents - Duncan Kent suggests some stocking fillers for the yachtsman who has everything
The longest day - David Bayly's maiden voyage comes to a premature and embarrassing halt
On board the Dufour Classic 30 - Great price, but is she great value? The YM team finds out
Second look - Westerly's popular Merlin goes under the spotlight
One man and his boat - W M Nixon meets Don Street and yarns about his lolaire

REGULARS:

- Editorial
- On Watch
- Libby Purves on cruising
- YM subscriptions
- YM books
- Looking around
- Around the coast
- Around Europe
- Readers' letters
- Next month
- The Confessional