EDITORIAL

LA NIOULARGUE - Comprehensive coverage of the world's premier classic yacht regatta

THE WOODEN BOATS OF WOOTTON BRIDGE - Good wooden boats needn't be expensive says Robin Gates

SACRED DHOWS - Madeleine Habib, David Jamieson and Robert Simper on the working craft of India and Afria

BRONZE WOOD - Robert Holtzman watched Europe's oldest boat being dug up in Dover

THE FINAL DESIGNS - G L Watson saved some of his finest work for last/writes John Leather

LETTERS - With a new monthly award for the letter of the month

CALENDAR
TELL TALES - Tales of the London Boat Show. A lifeboat, a rowboat, and Greg Jones has sailed the Explorer II
BOOKSHELF - Ship Ahoy! Reeds or MacMillans?
SOURCES

THE BECKETT BOATS - A family on the Swale, hoisting gaffs and showing their cupronicke mettle.Greg Jones went sailing

CHARTER AND BROKERAGE

THE TARBERT YAWL - A new wooden classic for yachting's most hallowed waters. Robin Gates has the first part of the story

MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION - Chris Caswell was at Lake Tahoe for an airing of exquisite power craft

THE MAYFLOWER: STILL BLOOMING - The story of a fine little sailing dinghy down Devon way from Joan Bennett

GALLERY - Sorting etchings from engravings. James Taylor is our guide

VELA LATINA - Renato Polo on the lateen rig regatta in Stintino, and Greg Jones pulling the right strings

SCHOOL REPORT - Peter Phelan looks at Britain's busy boatbuilding schools.

KEYSTONES - The boatbuilding begins. Bob Forsyth introduces spiling. We never knew it was so easy

MARINE DIRECTORY

STERNPOST - Frank Murdoch reflects on an extraordinary life

OUR JANUARY COVER - The three-masted schooner Adix lifts her bows in a salute to La Nioulargue.