EDITORIAL
TELL TALES
LETTERS - Our next Letter of the Month Award is an 1829 copper plate etching by Edward William Cooke RA
CALENDAR
THE OLD CORINTHIANS - Last September the Clyde Corinthian Yacht Club held a Wooden Boat Weekend. Robin Gates sorted the Fifes from the Mylnes and McGruers
PENARTH DESIGNS - In part II Robert Holden looks at the work of Andrew Anderson, Denmark's most significant export to South Wales
THE FJORD 28 - We know the merits of Norwegians' wood, but what can they do with plastic? Greg Jones settled behind the wheel of a traditionally-styled launch to find out
PACIFIC PUNT - Why build a replica of a nineteenth century Falmouth Quay Punt in New Zealand? Ivor Wilkins explains
A GOOD CUTTER SPOILED - Stephen Mann nails his colours to the mizzen as he discusses yawl rig
SAVING THE IRISH FLEET - David O'Brien went to Dublin Bay and found a class of exciting 21ft gaffers designed in Queen Victoria's reign, all present and awaiting restoration
LIFTING THE LINES - If the lines drawings for an old boat have been lost, or perhaps never existed in the first place, all is not lost for the copyist. Peter Cook explains
VINTAGE CRAFT - Chris Freer went to see the surviving wooden workboats of Portugal's Northern provinces
WHITBY BOATS - In the final part of a series looking at the photography of Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, Robin Gates studies cats and cobles
UNDER THE CHIPPY'S THUMB - Dick Durham's old yacht stood in an east coast yard, just a stone's throw from the sea. A new deck and an old chippy stood in the way
STEERING STUFF - Faced with a plethora of rudder designs, the uninitiated might not know which way to turn. Ed Scott considers the pros and cons of old and new
BOOKSHELF - Volumes worthy of more than a glimpse between the covers
SOURCES - Cuff links and smocks for the dapper old gaffer
CHARTER AND BROKERAGE - An alphabet of boats from J to MVF
MARINE DIRECTORY
STERN POST - Magdalena is a catboat in British Columbia, designed, built, and described by Ernie Pfannenschmidt