Nautical 37 - Build quality headed a list of impressive features on this new heavy-displacement Finnish deck saloon

Maxi 1000 - second look - Simon Jinks sails this fast, well-mannered Swedish cruiser

Vane sailing - Mike Kopman looks at windvane self-steering systems

Landfalls: A tale of two sailors, One boat (a Dufour38), one couple, one journey, one December gale and two wildly different experiences

Navigating New Zealand's Northland - sailing up from Auckland on his Twister 28, Miles Hordern explores an alluring variety of anchorages along the Pacific coast

Nobody loved us - Mike Peyton swaps rag and stick for stinkpot to crew afriend's motor boat from the East Coast to Sweden

Boom and bust - When her father's yacht gets knocked down off the Pacific coast of the USA, Meg Clothier discovers that her novice crew is in fact a crack survival team

Cutting your losses - Coping with a dismasting requires reliable, fast-working equipment - Mike Kopman tests rig cutters

Which charts are best? - Simon Jinks and Dick Durham compare the different makes of charts for popular cruising areas

French island hopping part 7 - The series concludes as Ken Endean visits lie d'Oleron and lie d'Aix, Napoleon's last French home

Destinations: Fowey Toby Hodges visits an historic Cornish port which combines efficiency with charm

Stability part 5 - Expert Andrew Blyth considers the stability issues affecting multihull yachts Southampton review

The YM team reports on the new boats and gear at Europe's largest show on the water

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A-Z of second-hand boats - Legends and Leisures are amongst this month's Ls
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The Confessional A Question of Seamanship - What would you do if you lost one of your spreaders?
Knots - The Eskimo bowline is the latest in Geoffrey Budworth's series
Sea Sense - Fender facts with Des Sleighthoime
Yachtmaster class - Dropping the pick with Tom Cunliffe
Learning Curve - Aground on a Fijian reef, Jack Gush describes a long and tense night aboard his steel-hulled Jackella
Better Boat Handling - Simon Jinks on how to recover a MOB from the water
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