Special features:
Now we are 80 - birthday boat No 7, 1966-1976. Contessa 32
Waiting for rescue - Des Sleightholrne asks the RNLI 'how can yachtsmen help?'
Rossiter's golden jubilee - 50 years of building cruising yachts
Racing round the world - Whitbread last leg and final results, by Bob Fisher
Modern mainsail reefing - Geoff Pack tries out and compares four types

Cruising:
SOUTH COAST CRUISING GUIDE - this month's major feature is an 11-page guide to the South Coast, from Penzance to Ramsgate, outlining places to visit when cruising, indentifying the best value harbours to stay at, and illustrated with spectacular colour aerial photographs. Compiled by Miles Clark and Geoff Pack
Classic passages, Brittany port guides - Roscoff to Treguier
Gourmet's Brittany - from lobsters to langoustine, by Kitty Hampton___ Perils of local knowledge: Francis Wood follows local advice in Scotland

Reviews:
Victoria 34 - Chuck Paine-designed pure cruiser
Westerly Falcon - aftercockpit version of the 34ft Seahawk

Regular articles:
Editorial
On watch - notes and news
Readers' letters - your views and opinions
Looking around - with Bill Beavis
On reflection - by Michael Richey
Loose ends - new products
A question of seamanship - by Bill Anderson
The Confessional - your sailing sins in print
Going my way - Des Sleightholrne reflects on the cruising scene
Around the coast - news from our local correspondents