SAILING SKILLS

Smart navigation
With reliable electronics, are paper charts still necessary?

Trailer sailing
Sail wherever and whenever you want with a boat you can take by road

Skippers Tips
Winterising halyards, intergrating AIS, foolproof berthing

A question of seamanship
Would you know what to do with a head injury?

Learning Curve
‘With my last gasp, I said Mayday’. Michael Salano is saved by his crew when he suffers a stroke at sea in the Med

CRUISING

Escaping the ice
When Will Barnes and crew got stuck in Greenland’s icefields, it took ingenuity and a drone to get clear

East coast rivers
Dick Durham on the delights of the Crouch and Blackwater

How to tackle Lyme Bay
Megan Clay takes on two major south coast headlands and the bay that lies between

Cruising community
Your cruising stories, logs and updates around the coast

Profile: Wendy Tuck
The Clipper Race-winning skipper tells us what it takes to lead a crew around the world

Family Adventure
Conrad Humphreys takes his children cruising in Bligh’s mutiny boat

GEAR AND BOATS

New boat test: Sunbeam 46.1
Sleek, stylish, but tough enough to take on crossing oceans, says Graham Snook

Tested: Pilotage by drone
Augmented reality was surprisingly useful, as was drone navigation, found Ali Wood

Find me a… 45-footer for a round-Britain adventure with three friends

REGULARS

View from the helm – Smarter sailing

News – Susie Goodall dismasted, boat scrappage scheme, greek taxes

Letters – Radio checks, red diesel

Libby Purves – Wrap up and get out

Pete Goss – Sail slow, enjoy more

Dick Durham – Retrieving halyads

Books – Cook’s first voyage

Confessions – Readers own up