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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
LEADER - Everything comes out in the wash.
WATERFRONT - RYA reviews stance on licensing. Three fires on Solent boats. Motor Cruising Challenge results. 300,000 visit Portsmouth Festival. Essex Marina improvements.
RIVERBANK - IWA Festival and ATYC Rally. River Boat 2000 competition winners. BSS exam fees to rise. Four killed in canal lock tragedy. Leeds waterfront schemes.
MED MATTERS - Old and new attractions of Rhodes and Symi. Costa del Sol marina berth offer.
RACETALK - McCrorie wins Formula Three title. Jones and Cappellini clash with rancour. Big international fleet at Cowes Classic.
MAILBAG - Care needed with interfacing electronics. Why are narrowboaters so rude?
Hands On:
- Going Continental: paperwork.
- Positive action to avoid collision.
- Three-strand eye splice.
GEAR SCENE - Tidal calculator. Outboard lock. Rope knife. Compact 12V television and video. Waterproof watch. Engineroom blowers.
ELECTRONIC EYE - Garmin plotter/fish-finder. Forecasts by mobile phone. Chart-plotting on a laptop.
ENGINE UPDATE - Free powerboat courses for Honda outboard buyers. Small four-strokes from Mariner and Mercury.
DIY - Checking battery circuits.
WATERWAY STOPPAGES - BW and Thames winter closures.
Q&A - Should I fit trim tabs to increase speed on a displacement boat? Can electronic management cure cylinder bore-glazing?
BOOKSHELF - Cruising the West Country, living on a lightship and learning how to crew.
NOTICES - Chart corrections, tide tables and useful phone numbers.
TURKISH DELIGHTS - Beach-combing, wine-sampling, butterfly-watching and relaxing in the south-western corner of Turkey, with a Trader 54 providing the transport.
SOUTHAMPTON '98 - Our full report from Britain's biggest in-water boat show focuses on 38 new motorboats unveiled to the public.
BLIND MAN'S BIFF - After two days' theory and practical revision, an MBM reader hoped to pass his Yachtmaster examination the following day. He nearly made it, too. If only it hadn't been for that blind navigation exercise...
MIDSUMMER MADNESS - To raise money for the RNLI, one man and his boat hoped to cruise the entire 69 miles of the non-tidal River Great Ouse in a single day. They would need one of the longest days of the year.
POPULAR CRUISERS - Bayliners are arguably the world's most successful range of motorboats. Alex McMullen talks to proud owners of the two most popular examples to have assailed the British market, the 2655 and 2855 Clera Sunbridge models.
TRUE STORIES - How a rigid inflatable became a semi-submersible, in heavy seas off the north coast of Spain.
TEST OF TIME - Saxon Princess is a Princess 33 whose owners needed more headroom and new engines. Petrol units were discarded in favour of diesels, and the berths were squeezed to recoup those vital inches.
LET'S GO RACING - So you fancy going offshore powerboat racing but you're worried about the cost? It is affordable, honestly, not least because the traditional routes towards Class I have been superseded by some new one-design series.
OVER & OUT - The unexploded wartime mine that thought it was a fish, and the pipe that thought it was a boomerang.
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WATERFRONT - RYA reviews stance on licensing. Three fires on Solent boats. Motor Cruising Challenge results. 300,000 visit Portsmouth Festival. Essex Marina improvements.
RIVERBANK - IWA Festival and ATYC Rally. River Boat 2000 competition winners. BSS exam fees to rise. Four killed in canal lock tragedy. Leeds waterfront schemes.
MED MATTERS - Old and new attractions of Rhodes and Symi. Costa del Sol marina berth offer.
RACETALK - McCrorie wins Formula Three title. Jones and Cappellini clash with rancour. Big international fleet at Cowes Classic.
MAILBAG - Care needed with interfacing electronics. Why are narrowboaters so rude?
Hands On:
- Going Continental: paperwork.
- Positive action to avoid collision.
- Three-strand eye splice.
GEAR SCENE - Tidal calculator. Outboard lock. Rope knife. Compact 12V television and video. Waterproof watch. Engineroom blowers.
ELECTRONIC EYE - Garmin plotter/fish-finder. Forecasts by mobile phone. Chart-plotting on a laptop.
ENGINE UPDATE - Free powerboat courses for Honda outboard buyers. Small four-strokes from Mariner and Mercury.
DIY - Checking battery circuits.
WATERWAY STOPPAGES - BW and Thames winter closures.
Q&A - Should I fit trim tabs to increase speed on a displacement boat? Can electronic management cure cylinder bore-glazing?
BOOKSHELF - Cruising the West Country, living on a lightship and learning how to crew.
NOTICES - Chart corrections, tide tables and useful phone numbers.
TURKISH DELIGHTS - Beach-combing, wine-sampling, butterfly-watching and relaxing in the south-western corner of Turkey, with a Trader 54 providing the transport.
SOUTHAMPTON '98 - Our full report from Britain's biggest in-water boat show focuses on 38 new motorboats unveiled to the public.
BLIND MAN'S BIFF - After two days' theory and practical revision, an MBM reader hoped to pass his Yachtmaster examination the following day. He nearly made it, too. If only it hadn't been for that blind navigation exercise...
MIDSUMMER MADNESS - To raise money for the RNLI, one man and his boat hoped to cruise the entire 69 miles of the non-tidal River Great Ouse in a single day. They would need one of the longest days of the year.
POPULAR CRUISERS - Bayliners are arguably the world's most successful range of motorboats. Alex McMullen talks to proud owners of the two most popular examples to have assailed the British market, the 2655 and 2855 Clera Sunbridge models.
TRUE STORIES - How a rigid inflatable became a semi-submersible, in heavy seas off the north coast of Spain.
TEST OF TIME - Saxon Princess is a Princess 33 whose owners needed more headroom and new engines. Petrol units were discarded in favour of diesels, and the berths were squeezed to recoup those vital inches.
LET'S GO RACING - So you fancy going offshore powerboat racing but you're worried about the cost? It is affordable, honestly, not least because the traditional routes towards Class I have been superseded by some new one-design series.
OVER & OUT - The unexploded wartime mine that thought it was a fish, and the pipe that thought it was a boomerang.
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