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The ultimate electronic charting system in YM’s competition - The great escape
Matthew Power’s boss gives him an eight week sabbatical and then joins him for a trip to north-west Spain, exploring the Rias - Home waters
East Coast sailor and cartoonist Mike Peyton reminisces about his favourite cruising grounds for the last 50 years - Art of glass
In the first of a two-part series, Peter Nielsen looks under the skin at how GRP boats are built - Goat on a boat
In the South Pacific, Jack Gush finds himself shipping a live goat on an inter-island passage to an Indian restaurant in the Fiji islands - Obedient outboards
Tim Bartlett gives a nine-step guide to a servicing your outboard engine - Leagues ahead
More than 100 years ago, Jules Verne devised a unique method for shipwrecked sailors. Mike Harris put it to the test - A-Z of second-handboats (Part 3)
‘B’ for Bénéteau: the first of two articles, starting with the Bénéteau First range - Alderney
Peter Cumberlidge visits the most quintessentially English of the Channel Islands. Free fold-out chart inside - Sat phones
Simon Jinks looks at the latest in satellite communications; from email onboard to fax, telex and phones with built-in GPS - Castaways
Sarah Button and family sail on the West Coast of Scotland and discover the BBC Castaways on the island of Taransay - Glossary of sea terms
Confused by nautical slang? The inimitable and incorrigible Des Sleightholme comes up with some home-grown definitions
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Tek-Dek artificial decking;
handheld wind meter; ‘smart’ scrub brush - Legend 290
Peter Nielsen sails the first of the American boatbuilder’