CRUISING

• Parade your yacht before the Queen
  Win a place in an historic sail past

• THE STATE OF BRITISH CRUISING
  Results and analysis of YM?s online survey of readers

• Fire and Ice
  An Arctic cruise ends in an inferno for skipper Bob Shepton

• Gipsy Moth IV special
  From rot to revival ? the story so far

• Landfalls: Audierne
  A haven on Britanny?s austere Atlantic coast
  PLUS free waypoint chart

• Wrecks appeal
  Finding a bargain in the wake of Hurricane Ivan

• Where dragons and serpents lie
  David Pugh takes a charter in the Orkneys

• Rollers, rips and races
  Dealing with overfalls and tidal races

• Blue Water Letter
  Niki Perryman ties the knot

  
  BOATS AND GEAR

• New boat test: Bavaria 42
  A new look down below for Bavaria
  
• Your money or your life?
  Budget liferafts on test

• New Gear
  The latest equipment PLUS gear tests

• Saloon with a view
  Step-by-step guide to replacing windows

• What to spend on sails?
  Should you splash out on hi-tech sails?

  SAILING SKILLS

• Chuting the breeze
  Tom Cunliffe shows you how to make the most of cruising chutes

• WIN A CRUISING CHUTE
  Your chance to win a Crusader Sails cruising chute worth up to £1,000
  
• Don?t go overboard
  Evans Starzinger is stuck at the masthead as his wife almost goes over the side
  
• Ropework
  How to splice rope to chain
  
• Question of seamanship
  What to do when the GPS goes down
  
• Learning Curve: Afraid of the dark
  Lessons learnt from a close shave in the North Sea
  
• Skipper?s tips
  Collision avoidance, seasickness and sail hoisting
  
• Any Questions
  Going blue water, corrosion and liferaft servicing

  REGULARS

• Editor’s Log
  The view from the helm
• Opening shot
  Exploring a secluded anchorage in Belle-Île-en-Mer, South Brittany
• News
  Grey imports warning
• Readers? letters
  Flares and flaming luck
• This Cruising Life
  Libby Purves leaps to Ellen?s defence
• Cunliffe on Cruising
  Tom Cunliffe almost has a run in with a reef
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• Next month
  Sneak preview of what?s over the horizon
• Around the coast
  What?s been happening in your home waters?
• Confessional
  Be absolved of your sailing sins