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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Gone with the wind - As the single-handed BOC Challenge fleet heads off on the first leg of their circumnavigation, Andrew Bray and James Boyd look at the dramas and rumours at the start in Charleston, South Carolina
Out on the Water - We tested ten new boats at the Southampton Boat Show before the event and look at trends and innovations among sailing yachts
Competition - Win a Hitachi Hi-8 weatherproof camcorder
Bells and whistles - John and Jane Gibb have now been sailing Honey Jar, the boat they fitted out themselves, for a year. They examine interesting ideas on other yachts and consider what they would have done differently
Grand Banks schooners - These magnificent craft once raced from the fishing grounds of the North Atlantic. Later they raced for sport, but so dangerous was it that many were lost with all hands, as Martin van Mesdag recounts .
Modest ambitions - The life and times of an ordinary adventurer from Essex, who usually spends his summer racing, but this year headed for the North Pole.
Elaine Thompson speaks to Roy Hart - Atlantic diary: southward-bound - Elaine Thompson and crew take the Editor's Sadler 34, Dash, from Lisbon to Lanzarote on the second leg of her transatlantic run
Landmarks: 1979 - The Fastnet Race of 1979 is still mentioned in The Guinness Book of Records as the worst ever yachting disaster. Are the lessons learnt from those bleak days in August '79 now forgotten? asks Peter Johnson
Design - Excel's Growler, an ILC-40 designed by Alan Andrews, showed the way at the recent Kenwood Cup in Hawaii
What's new at Southampton - James Boyd combed the halls of the Boat Show and found, among other things, a palm-sized GPS, a navigation program "and on-board satellite TV
On test - Najad 520 - A new flagship for this Swedish company, the Najad 520 is designed for cruising in comfort
Superyachting - News from Frers, Holland 160-footer, Humphreys 23m
From the Editor
On the Wind
Letters
Cruising Log
Dogwatch
Racing Round-up
Nixon at large
Voyaging
Leading Edge
Classified ads
Casting off
Out on the Water - We tested ten new boats at the Southampton Boat Show before the event and look at trends and innovations among sailing yachts
Competition - Win a Hitachi Hi-8 weatherproof camcorder
Bells and whistles - John and Jane Gibb have now been sailing Honey Jar, the boat they fitted out themselves, for a year. They examine interesting ideas on other yachts and consider what they would have done differently
Grand Banks schooners - These magnificent craft once raced from the fishing grounds of the North Atlantic. Later they raced for sport, but so dangerous was it that many were lost with all hands, as Martin van Mesdag recounts .
Modest ambitions - The life and times of an ordinary adventurer from Essex, who usually spends his summer racing, but this year headed for the North Pole.
Elaine Thompson speaks to Roy Hart - Atlantic diary: southward-bound - Elaine Thompson and crew take the Editor's Sadler 34, Dash, from Lisbon to Lanzarote on the second leg of her transatlantic run
Landmarks: 1979 - The Fastnet Race of 1979 is still mentioned in The Guinness Book of Records as the worst ever yachting disaster. Are the lessons learnt from those bleak days in August '79 now forgotten? asks Peter Johnson
Design - Excel's Growler, an ILC-40 designed by Alan Andrews, showed the way at the recent Kenwood Cup in Hawaii
What's new at Southampton - James Boyd combed the halls of the Boat Show and found, among other things, a palm-sized GPS, a navigation program "and on-board satellite TV
On test - Najad 520 - A new flagship for this Swedish company, the Najad 520 is designed for cruising in comfort
Superyachting - News from Frers, Holland 160-footer, Humphreys 23m
From the Editor
On the Wind
Letters
Cruising Log
Dogwatch
Racing Round-up
Nixon at large
Voyaging
Leading Edge
Classified ads
Casting off
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