Special Features

• French leave
  
  Our six-page special extols the joys of keeping your boat in France and hears from four confirmed Francophiles
• Sailing with a legend
  
  Joan Pye recalls a cross-Channel Easter cruise with celebrated circumnavigator Peter Pye on Moonraker
• Return to Oz
  
  Solo sailor Jill Knight closes the circle on her 12-year circumnavigation with just a cat for company
• Winning back the ashes
  
  Actor Trevor Sellers relives his four year mission to restore a burnt-out classic to her former glory
• Ronnie goes racing
  
  Dyed-in-the-wool cruising yachtsman Ronnie Faux tries racing and goes tail over heads
• The final countdown
  
  It’s launch day for Nigel Calder’s new yacht, a Pacific Seacraft 40, which he has commissioned himself
• Tomorrow the world
  
  Fred and Jacquie Lockey had never sailed until a flotilla holiday in Greece changed their lives forever…
• Destinations
  
  The ancient Norman fishing port of Fécamp is enjoying soaring popularity. Plus, free pull-out chart
• Class act
  
  The new Ocean 37 looks, handles and performs as well as – possibly better than – anything in her class. Peter Nielsen sails Westerly’s new star turn
• New generation
  
  Towing generators are the blue water cruisers’ silent power plant. We put three to a head-to-head test
• Shining examples
  
  Have your topsides lost their gloss? Grimebuster Dominic Byers puts an array of GRP cleaners through their paces
• Sail-care special
  
  A stitch in time… in part XVII of Sail Power, Peter Nielsen looks at ways of strengthening and protecting your canvas
• What’s in store?
  
  The latest equipment, from a Japanese antifouling, to new tillerpilots and a PC power inverter
• Easy does it
  
  Mike Owen and family find their beach club holiday in Turkey punctuated by a worrying medical emergency

Sailing Skills

• Question of seamanship – a secure anchorage? Test your sailing skills
• Learning Curve – the long tow home
• Tom Cunliffe’s Yachtmaster Class – The beached boys
• Quick tips
• Pilotage quiz – win a handheld GPS worth ‘210, plus Des Sleightholme’s Sea Sense

Regulars

• Editorial
• On watch Including Marina Spy, Club Call and Pub Guide
• New boats
• Readers’ letters
• Next month/Subscriptions
• Any questions? Your problems answered by YM’s experts
• YM books
• Libby Purves A new flagship for the Sail Training Association
• Second-hand focus James Jermain finds the Hunter Liberty 23 is a little gem
• Do your own survey Part eight of our buyers’ guide to used boats
• Blue water letter From Annie Hill in Port Owen, South Africa
• Blue water postscript Norman Faria catches up with some birds of passage in Carlisle Bay, Barbados
• Around the coast Latest news from our correspondents
• Waterside property
• The Confessional Readers own up to their sailing sins