Cover stories

• Family sailing special
• Only my kids for crew
  The patter of tiny deck shoes: Simon Crofts learnt how to keep his two small children happy on a Baltic cruise

• 15,000 miles with a baby
  Baby came too: Vanessa Bird meets a couple who sailed from Australia to the UK miles with a baby

• Yachtsman, explorer and dad
  Sir Peter Blake: Exclusive interview with Pippa Blake

• Cruising with teenagers
  Bargaining our way to Brittany: Miranda Delmar-Morgan resorts to horse trading to keep quell a teenage mutiny

  Plus:

• Night & day
  Two-day boat test: Did the new Legend 33 stand out from the crowd during our two-day test?

• Lifesaving gear on test:
  what worked, what failed? Can you trust your lifesavers? Discover which MOB gear failed our on-the-water tests

• Tides
  Cunliffe on cruising: Tom learns to keep an eye on the calendar

• Chartwork
  Going to the source: Nigel Calder discusses source diagrams

• Radar
  Interpreting the signal: James Jermain on reading the screen

• Expert advice: shorepower
  Shocks in store: Practical advice on how to plug in safely

Cruising

• The patter of tiny deck shoes
• Baby came too
• The family man
• Bargaining our way to Brittany
• Destinations: The Orkneys
  
  
• PLUS: Your free pull-out chart
  Mike Balmforth shares the treasures of this stunning Scottish cruising ground

• 100 at 59 in a 3.2 with a 15
  Rich Malone makes an epic voyage in his tender among Alaskan glaciers

• CHOOSING FOR CRUISING: Part 2
  Buying by numbers
  Nigel Calder explains how crunching the numbers can tell you a great deal about a yacht’s performance

• Shorepower
  Shocks in store

• Chasing the dream
  Toby Hodges watches the Rally Portugal fleet sail south for the summer

• SAIL LIKE A LOCAL: Part 5
  Just swell
  Ken Endean tells you how to ride the waves and still stay calm in Brittany

  
  

On Test

• Legend 33
• Lifesaving gear on test
  Man overboard

• New gear
  The pick of the latest sailing equipment

• The mover from Vancouver
  The Vancouver 27is a go-anywhere gem, says James Jermain

Sailing skills

• A question of seamanship
  No engine, little wind and a lee shore – what would you do next?

• Learning Curve
  How one skipper coped with a medical emergency mid-Atlantic

• Cunliffe on cruising
  Every harbour and every day present new delights and challenges for Tom Cunliffe

• Chartwork: vertical datums
  Nigel Calder on source diagrams

• Radar class
  What radar can – and can’t – do

• Any questions?
  Your cruising queries answered

Every Month

• Readers’ services
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• Editorial
  View from the helm

• Opening shot
  The effortless grace of the 12 Metres

• On watch
  The latest news

• Competitions
  Win VHF radios and £1,000 clothing

• Readers’ letters
  The cost of cruising

• This cruising life
  Two feet good, 36 feet even better, says Libby Purves

• Around the coast
  News from your local area

• Next month
  Sneak preview of next month’s YM

• Bluewater letter
  Nikki Perryman discovers the delights of silent sculling in New Zealand

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• Confessional
  Forgive me Father, for I have sailed