Fit for service? - Is the liferaft service industry a rip-off? Peter Nielsen investigates
Servicing your own liferaft - Dick Allan offers some practical tips learned over many years
Stuart tricks and Dutch treats - Dick Durham nurses his petrol auxiliary
Installing an inverter - Nigel Colder looks at the practicalities involved
Off the beaten course - The opportunities beyond the RYA syllabus available from sailing schools
Storm passage in tandem - Nineteen-day singlehanded passages by two yachts in sight of each other
Safe at anchor - Mike Peyton relates the sort of experience which makes cruising so endearing
YM Offshore 38 put to the test - After 3,500 miles in her first season, Peter Nielsen reports on how it all worked out
Inshore tidal strategies - The RCC Pilotage Foundation looks at Belfast Lough
Gipsy Moth IV - a new lease of life - Paul Colder reports on the refit of this famous yacht
On reflection - Singlehanders do not sail alone, according to Mike Richey
One woman and her boat - Anna Stratton and her 48ft schooner Mary Bryant

COLUMNS:

Libby Purves on cruising - It's tough being a traditionalist
Blue water letter - Gavin and Georgie McLaren report from Maine, USA
Looking around - Deviation, wives' noses and smelly boots, with JDS

Practical seamanship:

Weather facts, A question of seamanship,
Practically speaking, and much more . . .

REVIEWS:

YM 1995 Index
Equipment - Reporting from the Marine Equipment Trade Show in Amsterdam
Geartest - The BP 10W solar panel evaluated
On board - The Etap 30i
Second look - The ocean-cruising Rival 38

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