FEATURES:
Steering checks - How familiar are you with your steering gear?
Second-hand group focus - Performance-orien tated 33-34-footers
Dutch treat - Dick Durham takes Powder Monkey inland through Holland
Rigging attachments - Tony Staton-Bevan points at problem areas and offers remedies
Marathias in the Red Sea - The most arduous passage of an entire circumnavigation described, by David Sadler
Artist's log - Trevor Ridley takes us on a tour of the North Norfolk coast
Reading the surface, Part 2 - Bores, jumps and shoals, it's fascinating what is happening below the water's surface
If at first you don't succeed . . .A small marina and strong tide are no deterrer, to a particularly resolute Frenchman

COLUMNS:
On reflection - Should we mourn the passing of astro-navigation?
Practical seamanship - Learning curve, A question of seamanship and much more
Blue water letter and postscript - Herb Payson reporting from a palm-tree paradise
Libby Purves on cruising - A different breed of yachtsman created by early petrol auxiliaries . . .
One man and his boat - Andrew Shortland and his 32ft steel sloop Brillig
Cruising home - Position uncertain on passage to North Wales
Looking around - JDS on the German bite, Hilda with the Vim and losing frigates

REVIEWS:
Equipment review - All the latest equipment, plus Gear test
Onboard - Jeanneau Odyssey 32.1
Boatchat

REGULARS:
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YM subscriptions
Around the coast
Around Europe 101
The Confession