Editorial - When breaking up is hard to do

Tell tales - Boatshow, Hunter Boats, Velsheda

Niki Ferryman - On boating's ambassadors

Subscriptions - Take advantage of our latest offer

Des Sleighthoime - Where waterskiers get short shrift

Close quarters: Arved Fuchs

Class notes - Eventide 24

Lazarette - Lights, lessons, tapes and tools

Getting afloat - Swedish cutter and other bright buys

Boats for sale - Tons to tempt you

Marine directory - All the contacts in the business

Subscriptions - Goon... make the ed happy

Design - Edward Burnett builds a Fife look-alike

Books - Camper & Nicholsons, Arved Fuchs

Calendar - Out and about in 2002

Useful addresses - When you want to know more...

Letters - Pleasure boating; cover controversy

Sternpost - Captain Morgan purges some urges

The big picture - Scaling the rig of a schooner

Sole Bay trader - On test: the new 20ft gaffer based on the Itchen Ferry

Yanks in Europe - The Americans who made the most of the Med last summer

Ziska - Dealing with a dismasting off Long Island, USA

Cutting a dash - Thalia: 1880s cutter refitted, rebuilt and revived

Wanhill's - The fastcutters that made this family firm famous

Archaeology - When sorting the wrecks from ruins is a race against time

Scotland yard - Exploring the hospitality of the Crinan Canal boatyard

Cover - The century-old Thalia takes to the seas in full Victorian splendour. Photograph by Nigel Pert

Metal working - This month: aluminium under the spotlight

Skiff - We take to the Thames aboard a self-built skiff

Boatman's notes - Cambers, a cockpit table and fibreglass itch cured