Editorial - Are wooden boat festivals the best kept secret in boating?
Tell tales - Festival of the Sea; YOG
Niki Ferryman - Taking technology to task
Subscriptions - Where UK readers can save money on the mag
Des Sleightholme - Prawns make for a cocktail of disasters
Close quarters - Bargemaster
Boatman's notes - Perspex
Lazarette - Marine gear gets the CB once-over
Books - Sunrise Coast; St Francis Yacht Club
Getting afloat

French treasure - Mystery, Reverie

Class notes - Dauntless 20: pocket-cruiser

Boats for sale - Now online, too
Marine directory - All the contacts you II need
Readers' services - Books, vids, overseas subs
Calendar - Dates for your 2003 diary
Useful addresses - Names and numbers to note
Letters - A bottle of whisky to the best
Sternpost - Mr Morgan on wood n waste

Seamanship - Warping out of a berth the professional way

Garboard leaks - Help with what can be the bane of older boats

Boatman's notes - Exterior woodwork, and avoiding riding turns

Sell up and sail - Greenfly: cutting loose in a Nicholson 36

New Zealand regatta - To Auckland for a clash of international classic craft

Boats on Show 2003 - What's on at Penton Park

All mod comms - Full-time life afloat realised

Moonbeam of Fife 38 - A love story with a twist

UK Hydrographies - Treasures at the UKHO

Thornycroft - Part II, and war begins

Tristan Jones - A legend laid bare

Design - 14ft keel-boat cruiser

Britannia - 50 years service celebrated