Special Features

• Man overboard!
  
  Our 10-page special puts life-saving gear to the test and tells you how to improve your chances of survival

• Jungle cruising
  
  Alastair Buchan enters Venezuela’s Serpent’s Mouth to explore an offshoot of the Orinoco

• Cheating the fog
  
  Geoff Lodge sets sail for Shetland in fog and is rewarded with a magical landfall

• Small wonders
  
  James Jermain sails two new small British cruisers: the Yarmouth 23 and Red Fox Vision

• Foul play
  
  A preview of YM’s Great 2000 Antifouling Test. A dozen different antifoulings will be tested this season

• Destinations
  
  Nick Robinson explores Poole Harbour, the second largest natural harbour on the planet; with pull-out chart of this year’s new buoyage

• Liberty lost
  
  Stan Snape drops anchor to visit the Statue of Liberty and finds himself, daughter and partner, handcuffed

• Roll up! Roll up!
  
  Peter Nielsen looks at the ins and outs of in-mast furling in part 18 of the Sail Power series

• Abandon ship!
  
  Hugh Cownie recalls the night when he lost his yacht on a reef off the paradise island of Nevis

• Gib’Sea 33 boat test
  
  James Jermain sails the Gib’Sea 33, a no-frills French family cruiser costing a shade over ‘50,000

• Thai break
  
  Miles Kendall sets sail from Phuket for an adventure in paradise in Thailand’s Andaman Sea

• New gear
  
  What’s new in the chandlers?

• Struck by lightning
  
  Michael Briant’s Moody 36 takes a direct lightning hit in Chesapeake Bay in this month’s Learning Curve

Sailing Skills

• Question of seamanship
  
  
• Learning Curve – Lightning strike
  
  
• Des Sleightholme’s Sea Sense
  
  
• Tom Cunliffe’s Yachtmaster Class
  
  
• Pilotage quiz – answer to our March quiz
  
  
• Seamanship tips

Regulars

• Editorial
  
  
• On watch
  
  Including Marina Spy, Club Call and Pub Guide
• New boats
  
  
• Readers’ letters
  
  
• Any questions
  
  
• Next month/Subscriptions
  
  
• YM books
  
  
• This cruising life
  
  By Libby Purves: Slave to the galley
• lue water letter
  
  From Hugh Marriott in Malaysia
• Blue water postscript
  
  
• Second-hand focus
  
  The Westerly Tempest 31, PLUS Boat Buyers’ Guide: buying a boat on the internet,
• Around the coast
  
  
• Waterside property
  
  
• The Confessional
  
  Readers own up to their sailing sins