Contents: October 2001 - Yachting Monthly

Features

Virgin beauty
Sarah Norbury chases the sun and rum on flotilla in the British Virgin Islands
The mudman cometh
Roger Cooke finds himself in a life- and-death struggle in the Hamble mud while inspecting his mooring
Lifejackets group test
Simon Jinks puts 18 automatic lifejackets to the test and picks the best buys
Blown away!
David and Cheryl Rice had to swim for their lives when they were caught in the clutches of Hurricane Lenny aboard their boat in the Caribbean
An ocean paradise
Part four of Shadowfax’s voyage from Hong Kong to London: Justine Oliver and Tom Russell two up head for the Indian Ocean Maldives
Chart tables
Nigel Calder looks at ‘Mission Control’ and tells you how to get the best out of your navigation station
Destinations
Peter Cumberlidge visits Salcombe, an intriguing mix of Devonshire delights and metropolitan chic
Thinking the unsinkable
Peter Nielsen visits the Belgian factory of Etap, champions of the double-skinned,unsinkable boat.
Diary of a marine depressive
Carol O’Shea kept a diary as a form of therapy when homewater woes threatened blue water dreams
High seas humour
Extracts from the ‘nautobiography’ of YM’s ex-editor Des Sleightholme, ‘A Funny Old Life’

On Test

96 Najad 400
Peter Nielsen goes to Sweden and sails ‘a thoroughly desirable boat that sets a new benchmark for 40ft cruisers’
102 Etap 32
James Jermain sails a sporty new cruiser that dares to be different
Sun Odyssey 26
Peter Nielsen aboard a shoal-draught boat that’s great fun to sail and should find fans among first-time buyers
A-Z of second-hand boats
Our monthly cut-out-and-keep series continues with the Cs – Corribee, Countess and Cutlass yachts – and starts with D for Deb 33 and Debutante

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